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Aerial Perspective effect

Aerial Perspective effect

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Aerial Perspective effect

- Whenever the term aerial perspective is mentioned in connection with rendering, many artist perhaps tend to think of shots that involve distant mountains, with that purply blue haze covering them. A visual cue that essentially says that what we're looking at is quite far away. Whilst we are going to demonstrate the aerial perspective tool in Vray using a scene somewhat reminiscent of that idea. We do need to keep in mind that it can most certainly be used for more urban type shots, if we want, should they need a little more atmosphere added to them. Given that the tool it designed to essentially mimic the effect that the Earth's atmosphere has on the appearance of objects, when viewed from a distance. Similar in many respects to fog or haze. The effect works really well with a Vray sun and sky in the scene, as it will use them to calculate an approximation of the aerial perspective effect. I say approximation because…

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