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From: Kosina Josef
Subject: natural looking light
Date: 25 Feb 2003 11:32:55
Message: <3e5b9ab7@news.povray.org>
I need to create a scene with naturaly looking light, one-point light
source is not what i want - it makes effect like a candle in a dark.
I want to create scene with daylight, little clouded maybe.

Thx


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From: ABX
Subject: Re: natural looking light
Date: 25 Feb 2003 11:36:55
Message: <rm6n5v8onn08o8t7ab199qrvev312eh3qq@4ax.com>
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:34:41 +0100, "Kosina.Josef" <sku### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:
> I need to create a scene with naturaly looking light, one-point light
> source is not what i want - it makes effect like a candle in a dark.
> I want to create scene with daylight, little clouded maybe.

Have you tried tutorial for beginners called "The light source" ?

http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/64/

Is this sufficient ?

As for the cangle in the dark - you can be interested in changing backround{}
color to turn 'night' off ;-)

ABX


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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: natural looking light
Date: 25 Feb 2003 12:17:07
Message: <3e5ba513$1@news.povray.org>
"Kosina.Josef" <sku### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:3e5b9ab7@news.povray.org...
> I need to create a scene with naturaly looking light, one-point light
> source is not what i want - it makes effect like a candle in a dark.
> I want to create scene with daylight, little clouded maybe.
>

Well, you could leap right in at the deep end, and check in the manual for
"radiosity", but I'd recommend, initially, an area light (for soft-shadows) and
a shadowless fill-light placed at the same position as the camera to avoid
unnatural dark shadows (the ambient value of a texture can do this to, but a
shadowless fill-light is easier to control IMHO).

For a radiosity scene demo, check out the "scenes" folder in the directory you
installed pov to and look for a sub-folder called "radiosity". Try the file
"radiosity.pov", and try enabling the high quality settings.


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