"Tom York" <alp### [at] zubenelgenubi34spcom> wrote in message
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> This image was rendered with radiosity in two passes. There's an area
light
> behind the camera, well off to the right and up (to cast some soft
> shadows). The light sources for radiosity are the sky, some yellow panels
> below the floor (they're responsible for the yellow shine on the underside
> of the exhibits) and a blue panel in the ceiling (you can see a bit of
that
> panel).
>
> Antialiasing used was method 1 with threshold 0.0 (anything more and those
> white lines on sharp features become more obvious and abundant).
>
> What would be the best way to improve the lighting now? It's quite flat,
but
> I want to keep a "daylight" look to it. Getting rid of those radiosity
> artefacts in the corners might be nice, but not if it involves
> substantially increasing render time (this already took about 15 hours,
due
> mainly to radiosity). Radiosity settings used were:
>

I don't know the best way, but I think a very strong bright light comming
through the top on one side, like a sun at 2 o'clock, could help give some
starker contrast. nice scene, you really achieved a sense of scale.


-r

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