Thanks!  I'm currently implementing your suggestions.
The bamboo wall is actually "a few feet" away from the edge of the table the
tree is
sitting on and that's why it isn't getting the shadow of the tree.

What do you mean by a "fine surface normal"?  Very smalls bumps?
Something like normal { bumps 0.5 scale 0.001}?


"Coridon Henshaw" <che### [at] sympaticoca> wrote in message
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> "Patrick Dugan" <pat### [at] netinsnet> wrote in
> news:3cc336cb@news.povray.org:
>
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Here is the radiosity settings and light I'm using.  Perhaps I
> > shouldn't use a pure white light but try to emulate
> > sunlight better.  I agree the lighting is off I'm just not sure what to
> > alter.
>
> A few suggestions:
>
> It looks like you might have an ambient component in at least some of your
> finishes.  global_settings {ambient_color 0} will fix that problem.
>
> Try moving the light a lot further away and, as you say, adding a yellow
> tint:  light_source {<1, 1, -1>*1e6 color (White + Yellow) * 1.25}
>
> If yellow-tinted light doesn't work, try tinting with red or blue.  Blue
> tinted light will desaturate some of the red tones in the scene.
>
> Soft shadows wouldn't hurt, if the render time isn't too bad.
>
> There are no shadows on the bamboo wall.  Is there perhaps an errant
> no_shadow tag somewhere?
>
> Use double_illuminate on the leaves if you aren't doing so already.
>
> Add a fine surface normal on the pot to break up the specular highlights.
> Same thing for the trunk of the bonsai.
>
> Remember, of course, to delete the radiosity save file before rendering
> after making any of these changes to the scene file.  :-)
>
> Hope this helps.

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