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V-Ray Sun and Sky

V-Ray Sun and Sky - 3ds Max Tutorial

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V-Ray Sun and Sky

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- [Instructor] When it comes to creating environments lit by what we might refer to as natural daylight, both V-Ray and 3DS Max have a number of very high quality tools that can be used to help us accomplish that. Two of which would be the V-Ray sunlight type and the V-Ray sky high dynamic range environment map. In our start scene, as it currently stands, then, we have no lighting set up whatsoever. Indeed, if I go ahead and take a render, This is so that as soon as we add some daylighting tools to the scene, we will be able to quickly evaluate the quality that we are getting from them. Now it is worth noting here, that the V-Ray sun object is able to be created as a standalone light type of the command panel's create tab. In this particular scene though, rather than creating the sun and sky as separate lighting objects, we're going to create a complete daylighting system, that in this instance, makes you solve V-Ray specific tools. First of all then, let's use the alt and W keyboard…

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