[Archived phorum post from squ1.com v2 by clarice]

Hi again,

I have some doubts related to the acoustic tutorial - part that evaluates rays and particles. Probably I'm wrongly considering reflections equal to the number of bounces.

Working in the "reflector coverage" part (using the tutorial model called simple theatre.eco), I performed the calculation, as suggested by the tutorial, using 4 bounces then I changed the number of bounces for 2, 5 and 10 and the results didn't change.

It is said in the beginning of this exercise that to evaluate reflector coverage Ecotect considers only first-order reflections which is coherent with the results that didn't change when I set 2,5 or 10 bounces.

My doubt is why did you say that it is necessary to set 4 bounces in the rays and particle panel to evaluate reflector coverage if it'll only consider 2 reflections? Is it simply to save time during the calculation, because you chose spherically distributed rays? or maybe I'm confusing English words again?

When you refer to number of bounces aren't you refering to number of reflections?

Can anyone give me a hand on that, please?

Thanks again

Regards,

Clarice