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The GI environment control

The GI environment control

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The GI environment control

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- [Instructor] For our final exercise of the chapter then let's take a look at how we can render with the aptly named GI environment in V-Ray as mentioned in the previous couple of exercises given that it presents us with yet another option for adding a skylight type effect to a scene. But one that is different again from the dome light and V-Ray sky options that we have already considered. Just to reiterate then I will start scene here has been set up with no lights present at all and so if I go ahead and take a render we get a pure black return. Now, unlike the dome light V-Ray GI environment doesn't actually have any kind of helper object or gizmo that needs to be placed or positioned in the scene. Meaning we don't in this instance need to create anything from the command panel or menu system in order to start making you solve this lighting effect. What we will need to do though is make sure that V-ray's global…

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