I have been working on this image a bit, I would like to know how I can 
get the shadows in the box to be nice and dark, I understand that using 
a light would give the effect but I wan't be able to create the effect 
using radiocity. I have tried using a recursion limit of 1 which helped 
a bit but I didn't get the nice dark shadows I want. Here are the 
setting I used.

brightness     0.80
pretrace_start 0.04
pretrace_end 0.002
count 200
recursion_limit 2
nearest_count 7
error_bound 0.2

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Looks like there's ambient light in your finish.

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Sigmund Kyrre Aas wrote:

> Looks like there's ambient light in your finish.

Only in the large 1000 unit sphere which provides all the radiocity 
light. The other textures have no ambient setting.

> 
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Thomas Lake wrote:
> 
> Only in the large 1000 unit sphere which provides all the radiocity
> light. The other textures have no ambient setting.
> 

If by "no ambient setting" you mean you haven't specified an ambient value in
the finish or global settings, then the texture is using the default value of
0.1

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Thanks! That helped a lot! It also explains why I have been disappointed 
with the washed-out quality of so many of the previous rad renders.

Margus Ramst wrote:

> Thomas Lake wrote:
> 
>> Only in the large 1000 unit sphere which provides all the radiocity
>> light. The other textures have no ambient setting.
>> 
> 
> 
> If by "no ambient setting" you mean you haven't specified an ambient value in
> the finish or global settings, then the texture is using the default value of
> 0.1

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Thomas Lake <tla### [at] homecom> wrote:
: I have been working on this image a bit, I would like to know how I can 
: get the shadows in the box to be nice and dark, I understand that using 
: a light would give the effect but I wan't be able to create the effect 
: using radiocity.

  Light sources and radiosity are not mutually exclusive.
  All the contrary. They support each other pretty well.

  My personal opinion has shifted recently towards the opinion, that
100% radiosity might be kewl, but why make it the hard way when you
can get a better and faster result helping the radiosity calculations
using light sources?

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