…Sky portal nodes are actually aerial lights, which have a…sky portal shader, plugged into the light shader and photon emitter.…When we're dealing with sky portals, what we want to consider…is the direction of the light coming in from those portals.…The aerial light size, rotation, and…location will dictate where those portals are.…And so in our scene we need to figure out the quality of light we want coming in.…I'll go into a perspective and take a quick look at this.…What I've got on the front of my building…then are large windows with different size glass in them.…
Theses will be a series of aerial lights which will all…be controlled by one portal node on the top of the building.…I've got my 5 round skylights and again these will…be 5 round area lights controlled by one portal node.…What I will do is to right click on my S.P.…placement layer, my sky portal placement layer and choose select objects.…I added the window glass onto this layer so I could hide…everything else easily and be able to place my area lights from portals.…
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4/8/2014- Creating and applying materials with luster and shine
- Creating a mental ray Daylight system
- Casting light from interior fixtures
- Lighting with sky portals
- Creating an ambient occlusion rendering pass
- Fine-tuning Final Gather and lighting
- Compositing in Nuke and After Effects
- Adding depth of field, highlights, and glow
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome37s
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Using the exercise files1m 59s
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1. Creating and Applying Materials
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Adding luster to wood5m 24s
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2. Lighting in Direct Sunlight
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3. Lighting Night and Dusk Shots
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4. Lighting with Sky Portals
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5. Lighting and Rendering Additional Passes for Compositing
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6. Compositing and Post Effects in Nuke
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Adding depth of field4m 27s
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7. Compositing and Post Effects in After Effects
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Adding depth of field2m 49s
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Conclusion
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Next steps49s
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