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Aerial perspective

Aerial perspective

From the course: V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max Essential Training

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Aerial perspective

- [Instructor] Whenever the term aerial perspective is mentioned in connection with rendering art photography, most people would probably think of shots that involved distant mountains being obscured by a lovely purple-blue haze, which of course is a visual clue telling us that what we're looking at is actually quite far away. Well, whilst aerial perspective can certainly be used to create shots like that, we're going to show how it works here using this much more enclosed courtyard type space because even on renders like this the aerial perspective tool can be put to good use if we so desire. As noted then in V-Ray's online documentation, the V-Ray aerial perspective tool essentially mimics the effects of the Earth's atmosphere on objects when viewed from a distance, producing an effect that is similar in many ways to fog or haze. The effect works with the V-Ray sun and sky in a scene in order to calculate an approximation of this atmospheric effect. Now we say approximation because…

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