first thing.. get rid of that ambient light
i'm no expert on lights but it does nothing for your scene other than kill your shadows and make your scene look flat
its the shadow that im not able to get to making the scene with more shadow. and im not so sure how?
no matter how many times i read this i can't make sense of it
can you clarify this?
in fact i'm not sure why you're not wanting to use raytracing... just switch the renderer to mental ray and TA-DA you're done, instant ray tracing
unless it's part of a challenge or something, i'm lead to believe you won't get anything that looks like the reference pic without raytracing (or the other render method laurie priest mentioned to me once before)
that's a "Ch" pronounced as a "K"
Computer skills I should have:
Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
Maya, XSI, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Motion, Illustrator, Flash, Swift3D
Last edited by Chirone; 27-04-2009 at 10:24 AM.