Lighting has NEVER been an easy topic for 3d graphics. Id rather experiment than read a book. Could you imagine a Bryce book for lighting? Prolly no pictures :)

Admittedly, Ive never read or even seen Real world Bryce. Ive been using the "manual" that came w/ version 4 from Metacreations for eons... And since then, we have trees, meatballs (typo?), and finally IBL...

(That cant be right, I must be missing alot of stuff somewhere inbetween there :P)

There are 3 kinds of people in the world. Those that can count, and those that can't..