Open GL Lighting Question

General
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I’m really struggling with OpenGL. Please be patient with me!

I want to light a model that will be rotated and seen from all angles, and needs to be highly lit - not a dramatic 3/4th shading like a portrait.
Yet I need some directionality so that when I render it all in a common color, some shadows or shading is hinted at.
When I render the 3D shape all in (say 0,0,1 - blue) it just looks like it’s masked out with no contours.

I setup one light ambient light to one side and another to the other with a different intensity. Not getting the results I expect.

Suggestions?

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Isn’t ambient light the type that comes evenly from all directions?

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Based on this:

http://www.swiftless.com/tutorials/opengl/lighting_types.html

I think you’re looking for Specular or Diffuse.

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Greg, you are correct. I’ve tried all the ratios of the others and the outcome is the same.
I’m going to keep playing…