From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Interior Lighting and Rendering

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Add environmental light

Add environmental light

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Add environmental light

- I've now added in my environment and if we do a quick render you'll see that the environment does show through the windows but it's not really adding a lot of light to the scene. Really, all we're getting is some basic light from the overhead lights which are self illuminating as well as some light from the environment. Now, I would like this environment to reflect a little bit more on the floor. And we can do that by adding in some additional environmental lighting. We're going to do this using a VRay dome light. So, let's actually hop out to a top view port here. I'm going to go into my create panel and let's make sure we're in lighting, VRay, and we're going to create a VRay light. Now, the light we're going to create is a dome light, and this provides environmental lighting. So I'm just going to click, really anywhere in the scene. Somewhere here in the front yard is a good place. Now, this is an environmental light,…

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