I love lamp

Been working on this lamp tonight. If you have looked around at all of the pictures from inside HMS Victory then you would have seen this lamp everywhere. Anyway, the lamp didn't take all that long to model, but the lighting is a different matter. I have spent the majority of the night just playing with all of the lighting settings to get this to look right. Changing the advanced effects like the volume lighting and the lens effects to get the right look. I don't think its too far off at the moment. In these few pictures the light is in a fairly dark environment, but I don't think I will need to worry too much about this in the final animation as it all happened in daylight. So it's not like these lights will need to be lighting everything up inside the ship.
This is just the lamp thrown into a scene with my barrels. The lighting effects on this image were the original ones. The previous image is the result of a few more hours of tweaking. To be honest though, a lot of the time I didn't actually know what was doing what. The things that worked one moment decided to stop working another. Very confusing stuff.

I do realise that on the modelling front, things are going a little slowly. But at the same time I am also mapping things and playing about with lighting and animation. :)

P.s. I realise that the mapping of the walls in the background is pants, but I just slapped it on because I needed some walls. So don't be worried that the walls look crap. ;)