From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
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Adjust the sky
From the course: 3ds Max and V-Ray: Exterior Lighting and Rendering
Adjust the sky
- [Instructor] With daytime scenes, a lot of times the sky is as important of an element as the building itself, so let's go ahead and adjust and finalize the sky of this particular scene. Now, the sky itself is maybe a little bit muted, so let's go ahead and take this layer here, which is essentially our color layer, and let's duplicate it. Let's call this sky. Now, this is actually the entire scene, so if I drag this to the top of my stack, you'll see that it kind of mutes everything out, but what we're really looking for is we were looking to get this sky. So we can again use our color select layer, and I'm going to select all the black parts to get the sky. So we can do select by color range. Going to touch my eyedropper here in the black area. Dial up my fuzziness a bit. Click OK. We have some selection artifacts here, but we can certainly use our magic wand tool to select around those. So once I have…
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Understanding V-Ray render elements3m 43s
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Create lighting elements2m 10s
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Set up reflection elements1m 38s
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Add a wireframe color element1m 25s
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Final render1m 23s
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Layer the composite in Photoshop2m 50s
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Add light and shadow in Photoshop2m 4s
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Adjust reflections Photoshop3m 29s
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Adjust the sky2m 1s
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Final touches2m 37s
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