I have to say it looks good to me! Has a nice clean almost air-brushed 
feel that distinguishes it from other images.

Though if you want the lighting to look more interesting, at the cost of 
looking more conventional, maybe stick a highlight light in there, i.e. 
one behind all the objects at a shallow angle so it adds some 
rim-lighting, particularly effective if you have some specular on the 
objects.

But I'd say just work on the details of the scene, I like the lighting.

Tek


Tom York wrote:
> 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:
> 
> First pass:
>    pretrace_start .08
>    pretrace_end .001
>    count 600
>    error_bound { .05 adaptive 1.5, 20 }
>    adaptive 2
>    recursion_limit 2
>    minimum_reuse 0.01
>    save_file "tvo.rad"
> 
> Second pass:
>    pretrace_start 1
>    pretrace_end 1
>    always_sample off
>    error_bound { .25 adaptive 1.5, 20 }
>    recursion_limit 2
>    minimum_reuse 0.01
>    brightness 0.75
>    load_file "tvo.rad"
> 
> I think these are based on some settings posted a while back in these
> groups. The geometry is mesh-based. There is a larger version of the image
> available here:
> 
> http://www.zubenelgenubi.34sp.com/temp/tvo_lrg.jpg
> 
> (1280x960, about 130kB)
> 
> 
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