From the course: Introduction to Lights in V-Ray Next

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Skylight portals

Skylight portals

From the course: Introduction to Lights in V-Ray Next

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Skylight portals

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- [Instructor] For this particular exercise where we will be taking a look at a feature that is available on everything, but the dome light mode, we're going to be using a variation of the color bleed scene that we looked at in chapter one with the portal of skylight portal feature of the V-Ray light to use its full name, being the focus here. Now, although the skylight portal option is as we say, available for almost every operating mode of the V-Ray light, it probably doesn't make any sense, certainly most typical use case scenarios on this sphere option. At least not in any scenarios that I have been able to think of. When enabled though, what the skylight portal does, is behaves as a special conduit to the environment. Typically the outdoor environment of an interior shot that is sitting behind it with the example that we have here being fairly typical of the way in which this is used. So we have a plain light in a…

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