Scaling up.  That is a great idea.  I spent the last several hours trying to figure out how to make the spotlight smaller, when I should have just made the scene bigger.

Thank you.

I found the check box you are referring to, but unfortunately, it didn't change anything.  What I would ideally like to do is to be able to manually resize the spotlight wireframe and have that size be the default for all future spotlights.

But thank you for the information.  :)

The render time went from 12 hours to 90 minutes.  (And that was with Pirates of the Carribean 3) playing on the same computer.)

There was however a noticible difference in the lighting quality.  I think that the Global Radiosity had better overall lighting.  But was it worth 10 and a half hours of extra rendering time?  I don't know.

Anyway, here is a side-by-side for you.

The left side is with the Global Radiosity and the right side is the Ambient Oclusion.  Very minor difference.

Thank you all for your advice.  :)  I am still very new to the whole rendering thing.  You have all given me a lot of pointers and I am eager to put them to use.

The model above is actually a part of a Buddist temple that I am working on.  I will be sure to post a render of it here so you can take a look.

Thank you again.

John

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Please ignore the horrible texture job.  It is just there because I got tired of seeing grey all day long.

Thanks,

John