Hi(gh)!

After finally having compiled and installed PoV-Ray 3.7 for Linux, I 
still can't figure out how to tweak radiosity in a way that I get 
realistic light levels both outside and inside a building.

I tried Hildur Kolbrun Andresdottir's radiosity settings from her 
tutorial (http://www.simnet.is/hildurka/content/tut1page.htm, the left 
one of the two final settings, see almost bottom of page), decreased the 
brightness value to 1 (with Mrs. Andresdottir's original 2, everything 
outside would simply drown in white), and also upped gray_threshold to 
0.8 - but still inside, the contrast ist too low (and, compared to Mrs. 
Andresdottir's rendering, surfaces are generally too dark), while 
outside scenes are still not far from "drowning in white"!

My current radiosity settings:

       radiosity
       {
         brightness 1.5
       	count 100
       	error_bound 0.15
         gray_threshold 0.8
         low_error_factor 0.2
         minimum_reuse 0.015
         nearest_count 10
       	recursion_limit 5
         adc_bailout 0.01
         max_sample 1 // -1
         always_sample 1
       	pretrace_start 0.08
       	pretrace_end 0.002
       }
       ambient_light 0

What did I happen to not understand?

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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