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Using sun and sky lighting

Using sun and sky lighting - Houdini Tutorial

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Using sun and sky lighting

- Like many 3D applications and renderers, Houdini has a sun and sky lighting system, which is an efficient way to get good looking renders quickly. So, let's take our test scene, and let's delete out this distant endpoint light that we have here. I'm just going to select those both and delete them. And then up in the lights and camera shelf, I'm just going to click on skylight, and you can see in my network view things changed around a little bit. Let me move around, so we can see what we got. We've got two nodes that got created, the sunlight and the skylight. To keep all this organized, I'm going to box-select all this stuff, and I'm going to hit this align button here. If you're familiar with the Adobe sort of Illustrator and Photoshop tools, these are really, really similar. So I'm going to align the nodes, and then I'm going to distribute them, just so we have them all nice and neat in this little stack. We've got our sunlight and our skylight, and the skylight is kind of the…

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