From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Interior Lighting and Rendering
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Add an environment
From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Interior Lighting and Rendering
Add an environment
- [Instructor] Now that we have the camera in the scene, we can start to light. Now, the first thing I start with is the environment. Now, we are lighting this particular image for sunrise, so we want morning light. So for my background image, I'm going to choose this. This is an HDR file. It's a 32-bit file. Now, we are setting our scene actually in the mountains. There will be pine trees, but we actually have a beach scene here for the sky, and that may confuse some people but the thing is is that I really am just going to show the sky, and I really like the sky and the clouds and the way this particular image looks. So we're actually going to obscure the rest of this image and just use the part of it we like, which is the sun and this part of the sky. So let's go ahead and start lighting the scene by adding this as an environment. We add in our environment as go under Rendering, Environment. And then in our…
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