Hotel exterior WIP

[Crayox13]

Hi guys,
Here's a hotel I'm working on. I'm still adjusting the sea water etc...but mostly I'm unsatisfied with the glass material. It reflects vray sky which is usually grayish near horizon. I could try hdri in reflect slot but I always tile them weirdly. What's the correct way?
Any other suggestion very welcome!

thanks

[jacksc02]

You can try changing the "sky model" type in the vray sun properties. The CIE Clear model with turbidity of around 2 will lighten up the horizon

[Crayox13]

I tried it but still the same. How come you can't really see the CIE clear sky model in material editor? It's always white. When it's on prehalem, if I reduce intensity on 0.01 I can see the nice sky.

[deflix]

I tried it but still the same. How come you can't really see the CIE clear sky model in material editor? It's always white. When it's on prehalem, if I reduce intensity on 0.01 I can see the nice sky.

Try putting one of these intoa vray domelight - http://www.hdrmill.com/Freebies.htm
and one of these in your env ref slot (remember to make sure the mapping is env spherical.) - http://hdrmaps.com/freebies

[Crayox13]

Thanks....that worked
Although I don't know why CIE clear sky reflected gray. Judging by the camera angle, that glass should reflect sky on at least 30° angle.