# Night render and moon shadows

**URL:** <https://forums.chaos.com/t/night-render-and-moon-shadows/32713>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [November 5, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/night-render-and-moon-shadows/32713 "2008-11-05T20:23:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jorgensen\_cg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Jorgensen\_cg](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Jorgensen_cg)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/night-render-and-moon-shadows/32713/1 "2008-11-05T20:23:39Z")

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Hi

I’m trying to create a simple night render.

I have set the GI Skylight to ACOLOR dark blue, multiplier 5.  
And the background also to ACOLOR dark blue multiplier 1.

It looks ok, but I would like some sharp moon shadows. Does anyone know how to achive that ?

I’m I using a wrong method when I use ACOLOR ? could the same be done by using sky ? or do I have to use a V-Ray light ?

Thanks

!([http://www.rattenborg.com/Download/VRay/20081105/Night](http://www.rattenborg.com/Download/VRay/20081105/Night) test.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Jorgensen\_cg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Jorgensen\_cg](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Jorgensen_cg)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/night-render-and-moon-shadows/32713/2 "2008-11-06T16:35:09Z")

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Re: Night render and moon shadows

anyone ?

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**Author:** ![thomthom](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/thomthom/32/62299_2.png) [@thomthom](https://forums.chaos.com/u/thomthom)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/night-render-and-moon-shadows/32713/3 "2008-11-06T21:20:57Z")

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Re: Night render and moon shadows

What version of V-Ray are you using? With the Service Release you should be able to not have a Sky map in the Enviroment slot but still get SU sun shadows if you tick Default Light in Global Switches.

And have you tried setting the SU to a night time? Or reducing the multiplier of the SU sun?

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**Author:** ![nomeradona\_cg](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/nomeradona_cg/32/23428_2.png) [@nomeradona\_cg](https://forums.chaos.com/u/nomeradona_cg)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/night-render-and-moon-shadows/32713/4 "2008-11-07T05:29:42Z")

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Re: Night render and moon shadows

just quick guess. how abou using omni and play with the multiplier. i do beleive ( if im not mistaken) the sun is a omni light…so i guess the moon should be the same

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**Author:** ![Jorgensen\_cg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Jorgensen\_cg](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Jorgensen_cg)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/night-render-and-moon-shadows/32713/5 "2008-11-07T07:43:07Z")

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Re: Night render and moon shadows

Thanks to you both. I’ll will experiment 🙂