CompuServe Messages

Jeffry, In the "for what's it worth" category, I have some had success using one omni light (set at a low light level) placed right below the camera. This will provide a general "projected" light that is always shining on the sides of the objects that you are looking at. This helps in Architectural rendering, as it keeps the ceiling planes, etc from getting too dark (ambient only) and losing their contrast (such as a tegular edge recessed ceiling losing the grid lines and appearing flat). It also eliminated those "nasty" shinny spots that will crop up when the camera gets at just the right angle to a face, and that face will reflect the omni. In the Keyframer I have linked both the omni and the camera to a dummy object. Wherever the camera goes, so does the omni. Chuck