A quick question from a person looking for good (and inexpensive!) rendering programs: What lighting algorithims does Vue use? (Raytracing, Radiosity, etc.) Can you add multiple light sources?

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Welcome to the forum! Vue has a raytracing engine, and yes, you can have multiple light sources. There are directional lights (like the sun), point lights (radiating) and spotlights (contrained). Version 4 also has a couple quadratic lights, which okay, beats me exactly what those are, but there are times they're cooler to use than the regular ones. :) Follow the link and you can download a demo of Vue 4 which lets you do pretty much everything except save.

It use raytracing, you can adjust the quality of renders (from sketch=rapid to high quality=long). You can add several lights (like spotlight, point, directional,...) and adjust their properties... Yves

Sorry, too late :=)

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.

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E=MC squared! Lol, just read agiels "Quadratic lights lose their intensity by the square of the distance to the source". I just find Quadriatric lights shine all round, and look better

Thanks Laurent! I keep the least math in my head as possible, and rely on what I see, so I couldn't figure out how to describe quadratic lights! Sometimes they do look better to use than the regulars. :)