Just installed v14 that was released this afternoon and I can’t quite wrap my head around the logical setup of a night shot with the moon + couldn’t find anything online about it.
So how do you recommend the setup? The corona sky it creates is the same as when using the sun, might be nicer if the one created from the moon object was tweaked to fit a night setup?
If I lower Intensity of the sky, it also lowers the moon (and stars?) cause stars I can hardly get to show. What is the default values of “1” on stars and moon light output targeted against? -6 exposure in VFB? Some physical camera stuff? Lower intensity sky, no sky?
Can’t get the “Night blueness” to do anything.
Shame to see clouds + volume effect still doesn’t work.
Other than that, very cool controls on the moon object itself and an exciting release this one. Looking forward to playing more, but would like some tips on moon setup
In order to have complete “moon/sky workflow”, complete sky system should be made and controlled, and that involves having a CoronaSun object - without sun, the sky map considers as if the sun was at zenith and this changes both sky intensity (not related to sky map intensity parameter), and moon and stars will be affected by this.
Create Sun and Moon objects (or create Daylight system, assign CoronaSun, then add the moon separately), create a sky map (from Sun or Moon, only once, or separately in material editor). Then either use daylight system to set a night time or simply move the sun below horizon. If you use daylight, don’t forget to add the daylight node in Moon object.
As for Moon and stars data - they are made to produce physically accurate results. The exposure usually varies between -2 to +5 for moon and stars to become visible.
I found default 1.0 for stars to be too low, usually 6 to 10 gives the wanted result. moon-stars-daylight.max (740 KB)
Soooo, thats why V-Ray created the moon inside the sun?.. better to do that in Corona too, dont you think?
Also Agre with the default values, they are veeeery low, also the milkyway, plus the lattitude and longitude position confuses me where it is
The moon and stars have physically-accurate intensities, same as the sun and sky. In real life, the phones/cameras handle all the photographic settings automatically, but you can try using manual mode on a sunny day and in the middle of the night (without the city lights) and compare how much different they need to be.
If you find the moon and stars too dark anyway, you can adjust their intensities.
Totally, I mean its just that many users will find this odd at the beginning, increasing values to barely see some ressults, but I understand that are physically accurate.
