Bakkti opened this issue on Oct 19, 2011 ยท 31 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 19 October 2011 at 1:29 PM
IDL is not principally for glowing props as light sources, although it will take that into account.
The main point of IDL is that light doesn't go only from object to camera. It also goes object to object. So it is the diffuse inter-reflections that is the principle benefit - secondary bounced light that started from a light source but did not stop upon first encountering a prop.
But yes, glowing props are very handy. The most important glowing prop, one that almost everybody is using now, is my free Environment Sphere.
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