drm7 opened this issue on Mar 19, 2002 ยท 7 posts
agiel posted Tue, 19 March 2002 at 2:38 PM
Quadratic lights lose their intensity a lot faster than regular light. Regular lights lose their intensity linearly based on the distance to the source of light. Quadratic lights lose their intensity by the square of the distance to the source. This makes quadratic lights more focused closed to the source and look more natural overall. It also makes them more costly in term of calculations.