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Physical material emission for environments

Physical material emission for environments - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Physical material emission for environments

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- [Moderator] To fully art direct, our interior day-lighting shot, we can opt to use different work flow, instead of the Sun Positioner, and the Physical Sun and Sky Environment. Let's us a geometric sphere that emits light. Similar to what we did in the previous chapter. I'll go ahead and create a sphere, go to the Create Panel, and in Standard Primitives we can create a sphere, near the origin, in the top view. Right click to Exit Sphere Creation. Set the radius to 500 meters, and the number of segments to 120. Let's flip the normals, so that the sphere will be facing inward. In the Modifier List scroll down and add a normal modifier, and Flip Normals is enabled. We don't need to bother, with the object properties in this case, because we can't even do things, like turn shadows on and off. We just need to make sure that any lights that we have, need to be inside this sphere, otherwise it will cast a shadow unto our scene. Let's position it at the origin, go to the Move tool and…

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