In this tutorial, you have a scene of an army compound that requires lighting conditions for early, mid-day and late-day illumination.

To accomplish this, you will create a Daylight system and customize it to match a specific scene location and time. Then you’ll set scene exposure and combine the Daylight system with a mental ray Sky Portal object that will cast light into building interiors. You will fine-tune the late-day illumination by adjusting the aperture setting.

After completing these lessons, you will see how easy it is to use mental ray rendering options to create realistic daylight conditions.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

• Use a Daylight system to illuminate scenes set in the daytime.
• Set up illumination based on the scene’s geographic location, orientation, and time of day.
• Use the Sky Portal object to gather skylight and apply it to the interior of buildings.
• Adjust scene exposure.

Skill level: Intermediate

Time to complete: 1 hour