We use Sun and Sky Systems oftenly to start scenes. Still meanwhile it feels like the Vray Sun+Sky could use a little facelift. Especially areas around horizons oftenly tend to have a broad area of greyish color + have a tendency to overexpose … The two alternative systems do little help. It’s ha…

Just as a very cheeky temp fix, put your sky map into a vray comptex, put a gradient ramp into the other slot, set the grad to spherical mapping and rotate it 90 degrees. Set this to add and you’ve an extra fade / add control on it. Or use multiply mode for the blend and use a slightly brighter sky …

Yes, there is definitely place for improvement there; hopefully we’ll get to that. Best regards, Vlado

[image] vray renderelements to 2013 state stes compositor output Yes, there is definitely place for improvement there; hopefully we’ll get to that. Best regards, Vlado I vote for a full Sun/Sky/Cloud system that would kick Vue’s ass!

[image] Rendertime through the roof on some frames I vote for a full Sun/Sky/Cloud system that would kick Vue’s ass! Ah, well let’s not get carried away :slight_smile: Best regards, Vlado

[image] Simple Stairs Ah, well let’s not get carried away :slight_smile: Best regards, Vlado Why not? Could be another major plugin with its own development team. Then you’ll have VRay, PhoenixFD, and “EnviroSphere”

Doing a properly optimised raymarcher and cloud sculpting / creation plugin is a huge job in itself and not everyone needs it. If you look at the majority of people’s renders they’re all using hdri light sources with clouds in the bitmaps. If you use a proper cloud generator for those type of scenes…

Ok :), let’s stay realistic. But we are lately trying to use Environment Fog for atmosphere (Really?), and for this purpose the Sun/Sky seems not suitable. Why? Because atmosphere is already part of the Sun/Sky. You get twice haze and the sun seems to be too weak to penetrate the additional fog bel…

Vue as a product is good in theory, but the application has horrible tendencies to just not respond to the way of thinking of the artist. The Sky/Cloud model requires playing with values until you get what you want rather than any logical way. If someone asks you to make the sky a bit bluer you need…

I hear you Dave. I got a license of vue 3 or 5 back in 2006 and I couldn’t get access to their forums or support before purchasing to make a decision. When I bought and got a password to the forum, it was nothing but posts from people complaining about how bad vue is :smile: . Helios for vus looks g…

Some type of sky editor a’la HDR studio would be perfect. Lat-Long,3d dome view etc. where you play with large gradients of float colour. Adding layers for cloud images, setting max min range for intensities, oh how I wish. Integrated into max with realtime update for RT windows maybe… Anyone?

Improved Sun and Sky Systems - more adjustment possibilities

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Dave_Wortley November 19, 2013, 10:32am 4

I vote for a full Sun/Sky/Cloud system that would kick Vue’s ass!

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