From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Interior Lighting and Rendering

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Set up environmental lighting

Set up environmental lighting

From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Interior Lighting and Rendering

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Set up environmental lighting

- [Instructor] With our background environment in place, we do have a little bit of lighting that comes from this. Now, here's the image that I rendered using this particular lighting model. Now this isn't really enough to illuminate the structures, so I'm going to add in some additional environmental lighting using a V-Ray dome light. So, let's go ahead and hop out to a top view port here and I'm going to go into my create menu, we're going to go over to lights, V-Ray, and then we're going to create a V-Ray light. Now, I'm going to make this a dome light and we're going to go ahead and just plot that in the scene. Now, we can put this really anywhere we want in the scene, it creates a sphere around the scene no matter what size it is and so the positioning of this isn't particularly important. Now, this light will cast from all directions. So, I want this dome light to match my environmental lighting. Now, the easiest way to…

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