Looking for better results in global illumination and radiosity field (fake of course), I tried to tweak bryce (light dome, reflective materials, postwork ...)with no noticeable results. I was looking for some settings good for all the seasons (like pumeco, I think), but I must admit that every case must be solved differently if you want a good pic.

Then I tried to use the blender-yafray combo. It looks interesting, but you have to work a lot to build a scene, with no preview of the final render, and unpredictable artifacts (see picture - the model wireframe is ok) for a profane like me.

My next step was to try vue5 - yes, I feel still an urticaria sense ;) - what you see was made in few clicks with a really short learing curve. It's the demo version, castrated, with no save and max resolution of 640x480, but you can use the print screen keyboard function to copy and paste it in an image editor =P

here something more complex

I know what you mean. I do like to have hard shadows so that makes me a bit weird. I do like to have them in my photos too. So I don't use light domes. (heretic)　The soft shadow option has worked for me before using soem shadowless lights to fill it in worked out well. Ther ewas a post a while back about using negative lights to do this. I might have to try that. Try that for a new way if you have not.

Ah, by the way the house was made with sketchup, a wonderful modeler for me. And also the opengl render engine that gives to your pictures a toon look. You may have heard about it in this forum, I donn't know, but better twice than never. The pictures on the left are inspired by antonio sant'elia's work.

And, coming back to our beloved bryce, here an experiment for you: fake radiosity (reflective) - a mirror cube, with recursion depth set to 16 - camera inside a glass ball for fish-eye effect. Glare effect in postwork. About one hour and a half of render (original wide 800 pixel)

have fun!

uh uh bad trips brother.... call me lazy but I think you've reached good results will Bryce.. so why learn other (heretics) programs? ;P. sketchup looks interesting, I've tried it and sounds funny and, moreover, I've always loved toonshading. Last render had a movie-istic reality, could be used for star wars VII (if Han Solo is still able to get his Millenium falcon out of there!). Have a nice work and a nice research. vasq p.s. how is the other render going? ;)

@kemal

thank for your words - the free cubic world model goes on, even if slowly, due to a lot of work to do. Here some sketches of the "geen" and "sea" sides.

Ohhhh, very nice experimenting you have going on, keep us posted, sir, I like your stuff, that house model is very, very nice !!!!!! :D

Cool lighting work! Most of that stuff eludes my 3D intelligence, so I guess I have work to do.

nice tests

Very informative.

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These look mighty fine zakalwe - I'll send you an IM.