"Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Hola,
>
> Well it took some doing .... I really liked the picture I used for the
> backdrop so I figured a way to keep it in the scene. I used "looks_like" on
> my main light source and positioned it just in front of where the sun
> appears to be. It left the front to the building in the shadows. That
> started the radiosity task which wasn't that difficult, the radiosity
> tutorial in the pov docs pointed me in the right direction, however I didn't
> get the results I wanted until I switched from a sky_sphere to a hollow
> sphere surrounding the entire scene. I used an eye dropper to sample the
> colors from the backdrop photo and textured the sphere with a three part
> color_map with a scaled bozo distribution. Thanks everyone for all the
> constructive feedback.
>
> Jim

Very nice! The sky and background behind the main tower is very well done.
The foreground seems a bit too plain, though. I know this is your final
version, but if you decide to re-render it, you might want to consider
adding a little more interest to the walls (perhaps cracks/scratches? or
the top of a base board? or some other deco) and maybe magnify the
textures on the inside walls.

Nevertheless, very nicely done.

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