Thanks guys,

I tried area_lighting and that still didn't give me what I wanted.  I have
been taking a look around in the group and the stuff that is being done with
radiosity is really what I wanted.  By the way, some of your folks are truly
inbelievable--the work in this group is impecible.  Anyways,  attached is a
new version of my scene with radiosity.  The only problem I have with this
is the size of the specular on my spheres.  How can I reduce this?
Currently, there are no light sources in the scene.  If I add some
everything just becomes brighter.  Any suggestions?

Thanks for all your help,
Arie


"Mike Hough" <Ama### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:3bc54008@news.povray.org...
> An area light is the best option for that scene but if you were to want a
> larger light source the area light shadow trick starts to break down.  An
> alternative that creates more realistic soft light|shadow is radiosity,
> though it's considerably slower.  Here's a short example (add +qr to the
> command line).  The sky sphere serves as the light source...the light in
the
> scene is used for the specular highlight only.
>
> #include "colors.inc"
>
> global_settings{
>   radiosity{
>     pretrace_start 0.01
>     pretrace_end 0.01
>     count 100
>     recursion_limit 1
>     nearest_count 4
>     error_bound 0.3
>     brightness 1
>     normal on
>   }
> }
>
> sky_sphere {
> pigment {
> gradient y
> color_map {
> [0 color <.2, .3, .4>]
> [.9 color <.2, .3, .4>]
> [1 color 5*White]
> }
> scale 2
> translate -1*y
> }
> rotate -90*x
> rotate 30*x rotate 45*y
> }
>
> camera {location <1, 5, -7> look_at 1*y angle 40}
>
> light_source {<0, 0, -1000> color .0001*White
> rotate 30*x rotate 45*y
> }
>
> sphere {<0, 1, 0>, 1
> pigment {color White}
> finish {phong 100000 phong_size 120 diffuse .7}
> normal {bumps 1 scale .3}
> }
>
> plane {y, 0
> pigment {color White}
> finish {diffuse .7}
> }
>
>

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