6. Area light You may want to add a direct light as well, to add more depth or to highlight a few details. If you want to get nice, soft shadows, you can't just put in an ordinary light, you'll need an area light. An area light consists of several point lights. You can change the settings to use more or less point lights and expand or decrease the area, to make the shadows softer or harder. For instance: light_source { <-5000,-5000,-5000> color rgb .4 area_light 200, 200, 10, 10 adaptive 1 jitter circular orient } Check out .