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Creating a sun and sky

Creating a sun and sky - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Creating a sun and sky

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- [Tutor] The physical sun and sky environment map simulates natural daylight. It's great for architectural lighting studies because we can plug in geographic coordinates and date and time information and see what the building would look like at that location and time. We can also manually control the sun position and add direct parameters to achieve a variety of natural lighting effects. Currently, I've got a scene with no environment. If we go in the rendering menu to environment, we'll see there's nothing applied in the environment map and exposure control is disabled. The sun and sky environment is controlled by the sun positioner light type. This is a little bit different from the other light types in max. The sun positioner is not actually the source of light, it's merely a manipulator to control a procedural environment map applied here. Let's create the sun positioner and that will also create the environment…

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