I've always been puzzled by the popularity of multi-colored "circus lighting." I suppose it's fine for achieving artistic effect but I'd settle for simple realism. It really does crimp the versatility of a texture if you have to use a peculiar setup to get it to look natural-what about the rest of the scene elements? You really do have to almost be a photographer or an inveterate tinkerer to get things reasonably realworld. Here's a little section of a lighting file for POVRay: ES_GE_SW_Incandescent_60w - GE Soft White incandescent 60 watt ES_GE_SW_Incandescent_100w - GE Soft White incandescent 100 watt ES_Nikon_SB16_XenonFlash - Nikon SB-16 xenon flash Now those are references I can understand. and immediately put to use...or I could if POVRay weren't a cryptic text file oriented rendering system :-) Put it all in a nice GUI package and I'll sell blood to buy it. A couple of POVRay renders using the lighting package.

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