SKY with no lights

[AkaKico]

Interested in the answer. My current work around is to make the custom sun color Black. But I hope there is a better way.

[STRAT]

just make sure it's emmitting gi and it'll act like a conventional IBL object.

[Ernest Burden]

just make sure it's emmitting gi and it'll act like a conventional IBL object.

True, assuming he wants GI from it. I think he just wants the image. You can bake the sky to a map. Someone pointed out that there is even a scene setup for that, find a recent thread about setting the correct colormapping numbers for that post.

So you bake the SKY to a spherical image and it sits on a sphere and you use a compositing tag set to 'composite background' and not 'seen by GI'. with shadow cast/recieve off, or just put the map in a luminence channel and turn off gen/recieve GI in the material.

[Uncle-Ox]

Hi

I recently had to do this as well but appart from baking the Sky to a texture which will obviously make it static, there's another way as well which has the added benefit of not eliminating sky animation etc.:

1. Create your sky object.
2. Create a light (no matter what colour) with 0% illumination.
3. Open up the sky material's attributes and change the following settings:
General: Switch on the custom sun colour and change the colour to black.
Illumination: Switch off all the tick boxes.
Scene Objects: Drag the 0% light you had previously created into both the sun and moon link boxes

It's been a couple of months since I've had to do this and might have missed a setting or 2 so please let me know if it doesn't work so I can go re-check the Sky settings.

[Rich-Art]

Hey thanks. That works indeed.
I was wondering myself how to do this.


Peace,
Rich-Art. :thumbsup:

[scott frizzle]

Thanks for the replies everyone. For this purpose simply making the custom sun color black did the trick, but those other solutions will surely come in handy when I need the Sky to animate.

The SKY plug in for me is like Sketch and Toon; I've been able to get good results from it, but so much time passes between projects where I need it that I forget half of what I know about it between uses. I spend a half hour or so just getting requainted every time. ;)

Thanks again!

[big K]

hello,

using black for the sun color works for the illumination, but if you look at the sky where the sun should be, there is a big black hole. does not look too good in animations.
i have found a solution which is actually quite simple and uses part of the technique from Uncle-Ox.

-create a light (doesn´t matter what kind)
-in the sky options dialog under sceneobjects use the light as the sunobject
-then simply deactivate the light
- if you do not want GI you have to turn it off in the illumination tab

hope this helps
michael

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