From the course: SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray Next

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Environment Fog

Environment Fog

From the course: SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray Next

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Environment Fog

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- [Narrator] As cool as the aerial perspective feature can be in V-Ray Next for Sketch Up, one of its big limitations as already highlighted in the previous exercise is the fact that it is limited in terms of producing genuine atmospheric effects such as volumetric shadows, which is why it was good in Version 3.6 of V-Ray for Sketch Up to see the introduction of a new atmospheric tool that can produce volumetric shadows, this being the environment fog, which actually resides alongside aerial perspective in the volumetric environment rollout. To enable it, all we do is again flick the volumetric environment switch, and then choose the environment fog option from the drop down. With this control working in a similar manner to those found in the aerial perspective tool. So we have a fog color and we have height, and distance controls that can help us determine both placement and density of the effect. But of course,…

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