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Aerial perspective

Aerial perspective - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Aerial perspective

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- [Instructor] Whenever the term aerial perspective is mentioned in connection with rendering, many artists tend to think of shots that involve distant mountains with that purpley-blue haze covering them. A visual cue that essentially says that what we are looking at is quite far away. And whilst we are going to demonstrate the aerial perspective tool in V-Ray using a scene somewhat reminiscent of that idea, more urban-type shots if we want. Should they need a little more atmosphere adding to them given that the tool is designed to essentially mimic the effect that the earth's atmosphere has on the appearance of the objects when viewed from distance similar in many respects to fog or haze. The effect works really well with a V-Ray sun and sky in the scene as it will use them to calculate an approximation of the aerial perspective effect. Now I say approximation because aerial perspective can't at the time of this recording, produce something like volumetric shadows in the way that…

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