I don't really grasp what you're doing. Are you
using several dozens of lightsources and some are
really bright (where actual lamps are) and others are
more dim (just for bright surfaces etc), or are you
doing something different?
And how exactly do you prepare it, by hand, or by
some ingenious POV-trace-find-color-put-lightsource
way?

See, I'm nosy. :-)

Regards,
Tim

>
>   Here are some attempts to replicate the results of Mael HDRI patch
> with regular image_maps, ambient and radiosity. This is not a try to
> invalidate the need for a patch, but only a search for a way to do it
> with any POV-Ray scene. I liked very much the tests done by Gilles and
> others, but I wanted to do it with something more than a limited set of
> premade HDR maps. And as the only camera that I have is POV...
>
>   In my usual lazy-curious way of thinking, I figured that the important
> part here was not the H but the DR. That is, the image used needs to
> have a dinamic brightness. The problem, as Ive said, is that on a
> regular photo (or POV image), the sun and a sheet of paper are both rgb
> 1. But with POV, the scene for the map can be carefully created with a
> "pseudo-dinamyc" brightness, making light sources much brighter than the
> other objetcs on the scene. That is how I've setup the light for a
> spherical shot on the "office" scene, using the resulting image as the
> fake HDRI for the "reflective balls" scene.
>
>   Well, not as spectacular as real HDRI, but I needed to keep busy the
> CPU with something while writting the docs for the next version of
> ligthsys...
>
>
> --
> Jaime Vives Piqueres
>

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