In article <MPG.18583ccc7da89136989683@news.povray.org>,
 Graphic Designer <doc### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> How would I give the ornament stronger highlights? It's been a while 
> since I've worked with Pov, and I don't remember all the Finish 
> settings.

Hmm, you already have specular at a reasonable value, try toning down 
metallic. IIRC, metallic takes a float parameter, try 0.5. These bulbs 
are usually glass with a metallic inner layer, some of the highlight 
comes from the glass. As someone else mentioned, variable reflection 
might improve it as well, but you'll need 3.5.

Also, drop ambient to 0 and put a dim light source at the camera 
position. It will illuminate anything directly visible from the camera, 
but will still have shading for surfaces at a steep angle to the camera, 
avoiding the "flat lighting" of ambient. The easiest way is to use:

default {finish {ambient 0}}

at the beginning of the scene and take out the ambient from the 
textures. Then you can still use a high ambient for glowing objects.

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