"Christopher James Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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>
> It has that flat, low-contrast look that I see on images with high
> ambient textures...

I don't know why. Ambient is at the default value

> I can't make out any of the geometry of that brown
> wall.

It's actually not a wall. It's a ground plane. The grass is limited to a
small
area. The plane will be replaced with an iso later and additional vegetation
added.

>Try setting the ambient in all textures to 0 (I use the default
> directive for this) and either use a dim light source at the camera
> position or radiosity. By putting a light source at the camera and
> dropping ambient to 0, you light everything that is directly visible
> from the camera but keep the shading effect from having a direct light
> source instead of flat ambient illumination.

OK,  thanks

Gail
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