Thanks for your suggestions. I am particularly interested in your suggestion for
adding a media to the room, what effect do you have in mind generating with the
media? However by the time I got to reading your post I had already fixed much
of the lighting problem and added some more instruments. I am about to do a
final rendering, well it might not be completely final, it depends on how I'm
satisfied with the results of the large image. I will post the results here in a
few hours when done. Then take a look at that one and let me know if you think
any of the below still applies to it.

:-)

bankspad wrote:

> I'm wondering what would happen if you:
> 1) got rid of the area_light and just stuck with the spot lights.
> 2) filled the room with very subtle media ( like dust )
> 3) raised the general ambience of the store, display area and all objects
> 4) relied on a supportive light source, perhaps light coming from a street
> lamp in front of the store or from the other side of the street - maybe even
> have the light react with the glass of the display window, i.e refraction,
> filter, etc.
>
> My two cents, for what it's worth.  ;-]
>
> KB-
>
> p.s.  nice progress on the trombone.
>
> Thomas Lake wrote:
>
> > I have been doing more work on the the image, however I'm not sure if it
> > looks better or if the additions don't just add more problems? I'm still
> > not finished, I'd like to add a drum set and a piano, and a sheet music
> > stand. And some more things to go in the display case. I liked how the
> > last image showed the instruments up close, hmm maybe there is a camera
> > angle that combines the two??
> >
> > Also could someone help me with something here? In this image I wanted
> > to get the look of a store at night. You know, where the only lights
> > that are on are the display case lights and lights in the front. What I
> > did was to put a single light in the display case and several spot
> > lights for the hanging halogen lights. But I've had a really hard time
> > making the light in the display case look right. In this image it is too
> > bright, I want it to look like a bright florescent light but not light
> > the whole room! I tried to simply change the fade_distance and power on
> > the light but for some reason I had to change the fade power all the way
> > up to 30 before I saw any appreciable effect, anyone know why this might
> > be?
> >
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> >  [Image]

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