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Posted by mazoola at Jan 27, 2016, 10:18:26 PM
Re: What am I doing wrong?
Hans -

Thanks for the additional info and pointers. I'd actually spent quite some time last summer reading through the old posts on tweaking SunFlow, and more recently I've begun to dig into the source code for both SH3D and SF. (It's amazing what one can accomplish where there are unpleasant tasks to avoid!) I hadn't really thought much about the white spot problem, though, as it's been relatively uncommon in my scenes *except* when it appeared as a side effect of a broken model. (It took me a while to realize how big an issue Sketchup's 'two-faced' nature can be when importing SU models into SH3D -- *and* how many of the models from the 3DWarehouse display this problem.) However, once I started playing around with anti-aliasing and discovered the default Q4 setting could cause the program to fail at correctly identifying surface normals, I began to wonder if all of these symptoms might be related. Until your message, I was pretty sure they were -- now, I need to crawl back into my office and ruminate some more.

Thanks again,
Maz