Originally posted by THX1138
Some important info about final gather you may or may not know about.

The final Gather option creates very realistic shading effects by bouncing an objects "COLOR" onto other objects, as in real life. When Final Gather is turned on, light rays are cast from the light; then when the light ray hits an object, additional rays are projected from the object used to calculate the amount of energy that is comming from the the surrounding objects, in turn producing the effects of bounced light and color. To a point, Final Gather turns every object into a type of light source.

Here is some additional material with illustrations that demonstrate the process. Linkage

Hope you don't take offence at this, just trying to help out if it pleases.

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