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Imagine can't Ray Trace

    22-Oct-91 00:39:22
Sb: Imagine can't Ray Trace
Fm: Wayne Cole 76370,621
To: Peter Greci 76104,2110
Peter, I tried expanding the world to 5000 so that I could get a ray traced animation. That didn't work at first either. The object was still invisible for the first 35 frames, whereupon a peice of the object show mes of the animation using the picked object-transformation-poition menu item and found that the lagest coordinates were 9540 in y and abou ybe to extend the size coordinates to the limits that light had to travel to hit objects at the extremes of the animation. I find it annoying that something like this is not carefully documented. The fact is, it should not exist in the program since the scan l d size counts for one it should cound for both; or a better fix – if it does not count for one it should count for neither. The fact that I even had go through all these days of experimentation and BBS conversation to determine how to get raytracing to work is an he artistic intent and content to suit the program or blow deadlines trying to figure out the undocumented "features" of the program. A wo