"Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecom> wrote in message
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> >    Change 'ambient 0' to your preference, +/-, (probably minus).
> >
>
> I'm probably stupid for not realizing this.  You can change ambient
to a
> negative value?  What is the overall effect of that?  Does it simply
make
> any texture darker?

     Oh yes, give it a go, it works just fine. There's no overall
effect, (afaik), apart from the effect on the piece (model, whatever),
you're working on. I find that I do this a lot, trying to adjust the
contrast between, say, two instances of the same model where one is
close to the viewer and one is further away, i.e, the model further
back is exactly the same colour (with the same lighting) as the front
model, but 'should' be slightly darker.

> Any adverse effects on radiosity?

 I'm sorry Jeremy, I haven't really tried radiosity yet, so I simply
don't know. I would hazzard a guess that it might though.

> Sometimes I'm still such a newbie...

   Heh... Aren't we all, but I'm loving every single minute of it, (it
was my dream as a teenager to give CG a proper go).  :)

    ~Steve~



> Jeremy

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