How to do a night render?

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Hi! I’m working on a interior scene that has to be renderer as an animation of a daylight to night. I’m using VraySun and VraySky, but I’ve noticed that when the sun is below the horizon it makes strange sky colors. The scene (it’s a bedroom) also has two lights that would switch on.

So, is there a method to do this animation using animated VraySun falling? If you think that there is a better method to simulate this without VraySun, please explain it.

Thanks in advance.

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don’t use the sun at night time
use environment-sky with a dark blue color (and some artificial lighting)

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Yeah, but I have to do an animation of a nightfall and can’t change from VraySun to a enviroment lightning. Should I use enviroment for whole lightning (day to night)?

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can you show us an image of what your getting?

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You could try animating turbidity and ozon-values to produce a skycolor you like better.

Settings are explained here:

A hack around it could be to render the scene in two parts, one daylight with vray sun/sky and one with a night environment. With some overlap around sunset. Then blend the two in a video-editor.

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Hi, I’m back again after a break (here now are my town’s feasts). I’ve done some changes to lightning, now I use max’s skylight system with VraySun for sunlight and VraySky for skylight, two vraylight panes to simulate blueish night’s natural light and two interior lights to simulate a tenuous lightning.

Here you have 3 images at diferent day times:

I’ve noticed that I see all of the images darker than the renders, I think it’s due to output gamma, I’ll fix it. Notice also that the light from the wall lamp it’s no visible, should I use a glow?

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did they remove the watermark from the demo?

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Watermark

Just in the crack :(… not that I would know…, but I heard.

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Yeah, thats not legit.

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Well, not everyone can afford a license, especially when you just finished studying and not even have a job.

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That’s why the free version and demos exist :wink:

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yup. and most people dont come to an official forum to ask for help with a bad copy

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Yeah, you’re right and I don’t have excuse, but I didn’t know there was a free version. Where can I get it?

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The demo is exactly the same as the version you’re using now, except more stable and theres a watermark. There is absolutley no way a potential employer will mind watermarks, so theres no excuse for you to not be using it - it would only become an issue in commercial work. So you can see why people jump to conclusions.