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Old December 28th, 2010, 07:22 AM   #5
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Default Re: Coming Soon Klingon BC Bridge Set

This set looks great. Only thing that really needs work is the lighting. Most of your lights should use soft shadows with only a few sharp shadows from lights that would obviously be sharp points in the original set. A typical set of this size might have well over a hundred lights with all but fifteen or twenty using mapped shadows (not sure the exact equivalent in Lightwave) and the remainder raytraced shadows. Also try and use a few different colored lights rather than all orange. In real life the light color is generally very inconsistent from one set of lights to the next. You have some reddish light emanating from the computer screens, hot white lights in some places and softer yellowish lights in others. The result is different pools of color in different areas. I'd probably also go for a much dimmer set overall with more localized pools of light (so you end up with more obvious console glow on nearby walls, etc.).
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