animation with skydomes.

[rendimage]

I'm wanting to do an animation. A flat background is no good. So correct me if I'm doing something wrong. I create a hemisphere geosphere. copy instance and scale. Do a booleon and apply a sky texture map. Any good free skydome texture maps out there?

1. Does the sunlight have to be inside the dome to work? If not I assume I reduce the opacity of the dome so that light gets through.

2. Do I put the texture map in the enviroment slot or should I keep a plain blue color. I guess thats up to me

3. oppacity decrease descreases the ability to see map?

any other tips.

I feel retarded asking these questions.....but if you don't ask

[marklazaro]

a sky dome wont allow environment gi through - its not a viable solution unless you precalculate gi without it and then unhide it for the final render

your best option is to dump a spherical sky panoramic image in the environment slot

regards,
mark

[Da_elf]

why not just put your environment in your environment slot.

[rendimage]

if i just put the sky in the enviroment map then when the camera turns the same sky view goes with it and looks silly?

r

[RErender]

You need to change the mapping coordinates to environ and then choose spherical , instance the bitmap for more control.

[J_Bug]

Some suggestions I can add would be to either...

make an HDRI of your sky/ land and use this in the environment slot or...

use the VRayMatWrapper to contro your sky/ ground materials better and tweak the GI in this way.

I've used both of these procedures and they have acceptable results.

--Jon

[Da_elf]

your sky doesnt "go" with it if its a sperically mapped environment