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
greek_roman004.jpg	medieval024.jpg

assign bitmap to the walls

greek_roman002.jpg	greek_roman009.jpg

assign to the floor

indian0071.jpg

assign to the ceiling

aztec013.jpg

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