From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Exterior Lighting and Rendering

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Add sunlight

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Add sunlight

- [Instructor] Now that we have the environmental light in the scene, we can actually add a sun. Now, you can use the environmental light as your sun, but I'm going to add an additional light for the sun just to be able to control it a little bit more accurately. So we're going to do this by creating sunlight. So if I go over to Lights and drop down to V-Ray, you'll see we have a VRaySun. And this is a light that basically simulates the sun. Now, this particular light can also add in an environment if you want, but we're doing our own photo environment so we're not going to use that feature of it. So let's select VRaySun and then just go into a top viewport. And then I'm going to place this somewhere close to where the actual sun would be in the scene, which is slightly over the left shoulder of the camera. So let's go ahead and left-click and drag towards the house. So what we're dragging here is the target of that light.…

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