Lighting help wanted.

[JDA]

Hi!

I'm doing a tutorial and needs some
help with the lighting part of the tutorial.
Now you might say " why are you doing a tutorial
if you don't understand lighting in Indigo?"
Well you see I do to a point.
Ok so here's the deal...

Image 1 has 2 mesh emitters.

Notice how dark the top area of the image is.

Image 2 is covered with a cube with the bottom
removed. The 5 faces of the box emit light.
It gives nice uniform lighting but lacks highlights.

Now when I combine the 2 lighting methods
I don't get the uniform lighting.
The render always ends up like Image 1.

So my question is... How do I get the best of both worlds?

And before you say Violet I have tried that and I didn't get the results
I am looking for. So either I don't know what I am doing or Violet is not the answer.

[pixie]

Combine both and give more strenght to those two meshes, another suggestion would be using other tonemapping but reinhard.

[Kram1032]

Maybe, you could add a third filllight to compensate the darker area instead of illuminating the domino....

[dougal2]

Or simply adjust the power of your lights so that the lights in 01 are stronger?

Or, make the meshlights in 01 smaller so that they are more like "point"/"spot" lights = stronger highlights.

(BTW, 02 could be simulated by simply using Background colour environment lighting - it's perfectly uniform)