Smws wrote:
  > I have to say I like your image a lot,

   Me too! I think JSR managed to get a very good lighting here (apart 
from a very nice room and furniture), but some more intensity on the 
sunlight will help further.

> I think Jaime manages to get bright daylight without the image blooming and
> losing color definition. My (limited) understanding is that for the lights
> in some images he uses several sources: large area_lights on each
> window/outside door, to simulate the diffuse light from the sky and
> environment, and one brighter light at the sun-position for the actual
> sunshadows. This gives better results than the pure sunlight+radiosity that
> is perhaps closer to reality, IMO. Of course he also gets good fading
> distance and light values from his LightsysIV light simulation system.

   Actually, this images uses another alternative to the "realistic" 
sunlight+rad approach: ambient boxes in place of the window glasses, 
with coloring dependent on the sky color from skylight.inc. So it's 
still sunlight+rad, but helped a bit with these emitting surfaces and a 
recursion level of 2. When using two-pass rad, you can put back the real 
glass for the final render.

> (If any of this is wrong, sorry, some is just speculation.)

   No, you are right: I really used area lights on the first images... 
but it was too slow for my patience.

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Jaime

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