How I can chage the color of the sky or put an image of the sky?

[Hector_cg]

Hi friends!

How I can change the sky's color or pust an image of the real sky in my renders?

I try to change the color map in the environmet options bou I not obtains any chage.

[dcauldwell_cg]

Re: How I can chage the color of the sky or put an image of the sky?

I would put a sky image (preferable a HDRI) in the 'environment' slot. If you want to save the sky with the render then you will need to save the final render as a jpg. (If you save it as a png, then the sky will disappear)

[thomthom]

Re: How I can chage the color of the sky or put an image of the sky?

I save the renders as BMP files as I don't want the original to suffer from the JPEG compression.

[Hector_cg]

Re: How I can chage the color of the sky or put an image of the sky?

Yes I know if I save the render in a png image the sky disappear; I saved my render in jpg file but wath can I do to the sky appears more blue or red or with a real sky image. I saw some of your renders and the Sky is very well How I can obtain these sky quality in my renders.

[dcauldwell_cg]

Re: How I can chage the color of the sky or put an image of the sky?

All I can suggest is that you choose your HDRI carefully. There are a range of different sky types out there (e.g. 'spectralogue' etc) and you need to choose one that suites your scene, or adjust it first in Photoshop (PS). Or you base it on a site photograph. If it is a montage then this is the best way.
The alternative is to insert the sky afterwards in PS.

Good Luck

David

[Hector_cg]

Re: How I can chage the color of the sky or put an image of the sky?

Hi
I use now a HDRI image in the sky but the clouds of the HDRI not appears, only appears a navy blue in the sky that is nice but what are the settings I must change to can view the clouds.

[dcauldwell_cg]

Re: How I can chage the color of the sky or put an image of the sky?

Hector

You can rotate the background. put an angle in the environment-background-bitmap-horizontal rotate slot.

However, if you are still not happy with the background, then I would just make a billboard to put in the background. That way you have more control over whats happening. Just add an emmissive layer and increase the value until it looks right.
I tend to use images in the environment slot only to create window refelections, and even for this I sometimes resort to billboards, because you have better control over them.

Have a look at chillrenders recent post or mine (http://asgvis.com/index.php?option=c...11641#msg11641) for examples.

Good Luck

David