Night beach setup help needed

#1

Greetings
I am working on creating a night scene with a Lighthouse over looking the ocean off a cliff or hill here is what I have so far.
Lighthouse

I am helping a friend try to create a logo for his new company, but I  haven't done any modeling in over a year, so a bit rusty and when I was  modeling never got to do a night scene or environment with lighting  setup. Here is what he wants. To have a Lighthouse like in this night scene:
[Beach](http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f24/bigtyme01/3D%20images/CandleLightMediaIncorporate.jpg)

Wants to have the same over cast clouding with the Lighthouse that has a light beam going out over the water with a silhouette of a town in the lights end were it starts to decay like this.
Lightbeam

The light will be a little more intense, but that is how he is wanting the logo for his company.
So my thought process was get the lighthouse and add materials, then work on night setup and lighting. I’m rendering in MR and physical sun and sky turned on, all materials in lighthouse are mia material x.and using Autodesk Maya 2010 I got while at the Art Institute, but only had 2 semesters, before taking a break to get married.

So if any one can help or guide me to a tutorial that can help me setup up a night scene would really appreciate it.

Thanks again for the help.

#2

Here is what I have so far as the setup, put a scene inside of sphere, added spotlight with decay, added point light inside lighthouse room, then added Visor ocean to get a feel for what the look would be, will probably redo the ocean, but I am still working on the light setup.
Lighthouse w/Ocean

#3

So far so good ,I have seen your images and I would say they are not bad,I don’t think if anybody can help you on this because only you know what you are looking for in your image.
If you have an image which is close to what you are attempting then may be somebody can suggest you what you need to do.
Here are some visuals which might help you
http://vimeo.com/5166397
http://vimeo.com/7116243
http://vimeo.com/7072594
http://vimeo.com/16037707
http://vimeo.com/24685268
http://vimeo.com/12275343

#4

Thanks Greg, I am still tweaking out the light and night scene, the reference videos have given me some ideas of what to try next and will work on making changes accordingly. Thanks again for your help.

#5

Ok, I went a head and deleted the direct light that came from the Visor ocean and did a custom ocean looks better and starting to come together. Now I am trying to get the light from the light house to have that fog, but when I use no decay it come out good, but it hits the plane that I have the clouds setup, when I switch to linear I have to crank up the intensity to get the fog effect in the light, but it starts to emit light at the base of the lighthouse. Just some more tweaking with light setup, but it is coming along.
Lighthouse with custom ocean

#6

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