Lighting a night time scene in POVRay.

[Hughes]

This is the correct way, it's probably just about finding the right coordinates.

For example to modify 5580 just change the default lights color to something dimmer:

Code:

color srgb <0.2,0.2,0.2>

and add a point light below it (just above //=====Cameras...)

Code:

light_source {
  <50,-208,120>, rgb <1,0.75,0> //an orange light
}

resulting in:


To find the new lights position you could use e.g a temporary 1x1 plate.

Thank you very much indeed for your very helpful and prompt reply, Roland. I managed to render the attached image by following your advice.

    Now I need to become more expert in choice of lights, position etc.