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In article  [e-mail] (Rowan Crawford) writes:

>But I've noticed something, possibly related, which has me puzzled.
>I set up one of the sample cars with the light on the oposite side of
>the object to the camera. When I rendered the scene, the side of the
>car NOT affected by the light was still partially lit. I assume
>there's some sort of ambient setting somewhere, although a quick
>search never found it, and I'm only halfway through the manual so
>far...

The ambient intensity is in the main lights control panel.  It defaults to
15%, I believe.

>Also, I've not yet managed to get any shadows going at all. I have
>all the buttons set as I think they should be (Self shadow, cast
>shadow, and receive shadow + 'raytrace' shadow type), but no shadows.

That would be in the camera controls menu.  Turn on "trace shadows".

>These aren't questions, just observations so far :).

These aren't answers, just pointers.  :).

>Row.
Tim.