I made one simple space for this small tutorial with the use of the good textures of Total Textures. I designed this space is big space, and Waterway round it


assign bitmap to the pillars




assign bitmap to the walls




assign to the floor




assign to the ceiling



then tweak the uvw mapping coordinates, until you are satisfied with them. After that, use radiosity render, and add daylight to the scene and render.

The render time was 0:10:20 in a resolution of 1500 px / 1800 pix with a p4-2g,768mb,

Render the scene again, save the result which is imported in photoshop to retouch color and add light effect

I Made a PostProduction in Photoshop that consisted on adding some contrast, a sharpen mask and to darken some areas.

The final renderings: