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Atmospheric perspective with aiFog

Atmospheric perspective with aiFog - Maya Tutorial

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Atmospheric perspective with aiFog

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- [Narrator] Let's add a simple fog atmosphere to this exterior shot. The effect we want to achieve is atmospheric perspective. Where objects in the distance are lower contrast, due to light scattering from particles in the air. Let's render the camera view. Click in it to give it focus. Go to the main menu's and choose Arnold render. Your Arnold render view shows the exterior scene with no fog applied. Now let's open up the render settings, do that from the status line. Render settings, in the Arnold renderer tab. Open up the environment section. Inside here you'll see two slots for maps, the background legacy slot is only there for backward compatibility with previous versions of Arnold. We don't need this background field anymore because the sky dome light does everything we need. We want to apply an atmosphere here to the scene. So click on create render node and from the pop-up dialog choose create aiFog. The…

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