"Bill Hails" <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote in message
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> This is my first big povray project, so be gentle with me :-)

Can't. You posted a very large file for such a small image, so guess I'll be
first to complain.
;-)
Jpeg (jpg) is the preferred format for this group, even if compressed
lightly, since it produces much smaller files than png, bmp, tga.

The rendering is nice, the modelling better still. Not sure if the floor and
stair texturing should be as though carved from a single block of stone but
it works okay for this one I guess. If you were to improve on it though I'd
say go with individual texturing, randomly oriented, for each tile of floor
and step of stairs. By improve I only mean if the presentation were changed
from fantasy-like to realism.

There's something that bothers me about the lighting/ambience. Probably
because it is all so uniform. Light fading and spotlights work wonders. The
confusion to me is that I see that soft shadow of the stairs and yet the
statues don't seem to be lit by the same source, as well as the windows
looking as if a strong light is behind them and not causing shadows. Not
sure. Anyway, you probably get what I'm saying.

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