From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
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Move lights from day to night
From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
Move lights from day to night
- [Instructor] Now let's move on to nighttime lighting. We're going to take the same scene, and we're going to light it for a nighttime or evening scene. Now the first thing you want to do is just take your existing lights and readjust them so that they're closer to a nighttime lighting model. Now, with nighttime, the sun is going to move across the sky so things such as sunlight and moonlight will change things such as the direction of the shadows and the lighting. So the first thing I'm going to do is just hop out to my top view, and I'm going to select my sunlight object. And I'm going to move it basically on the opposite side of the scene. So I'm going to bring it here so it's about 45 degrees, and then I'm going to select this fill light and move that into the sunlight's place. So in other words, we're just making the main light in the scene come from the opposite direction, as if you would see that in evening. Now…
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