It's probably me (hoping) but I have always had a tricky timegetting Spots/points/directional lights to make much of adifference in PW. Today I ran into it again and finally took thetime to post it up here for some help. It happens a lot.

Basically the attached jpegs tell the story. I have image 1 wherethere are some areas I want to get more light. Just to illustratethe point, I place a spotlight blasting with a brightness value of100% right into the 'shaded' area. Looking at image 2, you will seeminimal to no difference. There is some increased highlight on thescrew standoffs, but the board shows nil. The "Lights don't work"jpeg shows where the spot light is.

Yes - I am using an HDR as my primary lighting (Mike Wilson's "TheBridge").

Yes - this was rendered at 'Low quality' on indirect illumination.However, I have tried to increase the 'bounces' etc and playedaround with just about every setting with no luck.

Yes - I have tried directional lights (even less noticeableeffects) and point lights with no success.

If I can get some help on this...that would be grrrrreeeeaattt(office space boss).

Thanks,
PaulSolidworksPhotoworks