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> I'm experimenting with daylighting my subject now.  I first tried an area
> light in a window, but it occurred to me that a very bright sky_sphere
plus
> radiosity would give more realistic results.  I searched, and it seems
this
> technique has been posted and documented.  Additionally, there's an
> incandescent light nearby, generated with Lightsys IV (Thanks, Jaime).
> Lighting is hard, I've decided.  Thanks for the encouragement, those who
> have written.  I will post the source when I'm satisfied with it.
> Richard

Hi
It is getting better and better!
Some suggestions if you want.
You could brighten your sky_sphere again, it seems too faint against
incandescent light.
It makes me feel a very heavily cloudy (or masked by a building)  sky.$

And what about a render with anti_aliasing?
You could do a pretrace without AA, save a radiosity data file and load it
for final trace with AA and better resolution.
See "Dummy radiosity" on Jaime Vives Piqueres' site for this technique, if
you don't know it of course. :-)
http://www.ignorancia.org/tech_page.php?image=15&db=tips

Marc

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Thanks, Marc.
You're right; The daylight is still too dim.  I'll try what you've
suggested.  The AA and save-load trick will definitely be a part of my
final.  The AA threshold has to be microscopic to show those strings.
Richard

> Hi
> It is getting better and better!
> Some suggestions if you want.
> You could brighten your sky_sphere again, it seems too faint against
> incandescent light.
> It makes me feel a very heavily cloudy (or masked by a building)  sky.$
>
> And what about a render with anti_aliasing?
> You could do a pretrace without AA, save a radiosity data file and load it
> for final trace with AA and better resolution.
> See "Dummy radiosity" on Jaime Vives Piqueres' site for this technique, if
> you don't know it of course. :-)
> http://www.ignorancia.org/tech_page.php?image=15&db=tips
>
> Marc

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OK..here's the final image.  The source is in the scenes binaries.  The
world outside the window is a post-processing photomontage, which is
cheating, I know.  The painting is one of my mother's.  Thanks for the
critiques!
Richard

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rellison wrote:
> OK..here's the final image.  The source is in the scenes binaries.  The
> world outside the window is a post-processing photomontage, which is
> cheating, I know.  The painting is one of my mother's.  Thanks for the
> critiques!

Wow .. looks fantastic .. except .. the outside vertical doesn't match 
the inside vertical ..

Is the outside laid in in photoshop? or is it something else? however 
it's in there, the fence palings need to be at a similar angle to the 
window frame (or use a camera that leaves your verticals vertical. 
There's one around here someplace ..)

Cheers!
Rick Measham

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>the outside vertical doesn't match the inside vertical ..

Busted!! Yes, you are correct. It's laziness.  Best solution would be for me
to actually finish the scene without the Photoshop stuff.
Richard

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