I think you should use a pretrace_end of about 0.02 or 0.04 and a 
recursion_limit of 2 (take a look at rad_defs.inc for some examples)

If you want more lightning effects on your ships, you have to change 
your media to get something with a saturated core ... in fact, the media 
you are using seems to be something with a constant density ... you need 
to have a very high density at the center of the media and a very light 
density at the bounds.

The very high density of the core will enlight your ship and look more 
realistic ! You should take look a this site : 
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/zesly/ressources.html


> Oh yeah.
> There are 2 things going on in the radiosity that I don't like.
> 
> 1. I think the media for the flames should cast a lot more light onto the 
> sides of the ships.
> 2. the little patches of green and orange light at the bottom seem wrong.
> 
> Here are my rad settings - sorry, try as I might all I can seem to do is 
> make the render take longer with no noticeable results...
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> global_settings {
>  assumed_gamma 0.8
>  ambient_light rgb .05
> 
>  radiosity {
>   pretrace_start 0.08
>   pretrace_end   0.01
>   count 30
>   error_bound .5
>   low_error_factor 1
>   recursion_limit 1
>   normal on
>   media on
>  }
>  max_trace_level 5
> }
> 
> ---
> 
> 
> "Bryan Valencia" <bry### [at] 209softwarecom> wrote in message 
> news:414f1322@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Thanks for all the feedback I've been getting.
>>
>>I think now I'll add a door to the big egg ship and some cargo coming down 
>>a ramp - then it seems like there should be some refueling tanks near the 
>>landing pads someplace, and probably some kind of radar towers.
>>
>>It would be great if i could find a few Asteroid-nauts in spacesuits to 
>>place in the scene for scale.
>>
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