It is created by selecting the Skylight button
in the Create panel and clicking to place it in a viewport.
The skylight??™s Skylight Parameters rollout is shown in
Figure 10.29.
The skylight is used to create a soft, global lighting to
simulate light from the sky. This look is often seen with
renders using Global Illumination or Radiosity. In these
lighting/rendering solutions, the skylight creates a sky dome
that sits around the objects in the scene. Light is emitted
Figure 10.27
Using Omni lights
for all three points in
a three-point lighting
system
Try to avoid casting shadows with Omni lights because they will use a lot more memory than
a spotlight when casting shadows.
3ds max lights ?– 473
Figure 10.28
A skylight placed
over the spheres
and ground plane
from the entire surface area of the dome to cast an even light throughout the scene,
much as a sky lights an outdoor area.
The rendering of a Skylight scene, as shown in Figure 10.30, is flat and bright. There is
no definition because shadows are not enabled.
Turning on shadows gives you a beautiful render, as shown in Figure 10.31, with soft
shadows and contact shadows that really make the spheres look as if they are sitting outside
in afternoon light.
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