Toolkit 2 - Physical Sky Light

This tutorial showed how to create and modify physical sky lights.

Starting with a skydome light, one must open up the node editor, then create the physical sky. (Opening up the node editor makes selecting the sky light much easier.)

Starting Image

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity (Haze) = 3
Ground Albedo (Ground Light) = Dark Grey
Elevation (Sun Height) = 45
Azimuth (Sun Angle) = 90
Intensity (Light Intensity) = 1
Sky Tint (Sky Colour) = White
Sun Tint (Sun Colour) = White
Sun Size = 0.510
Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3
Diffuse = 2
Specular = 2
Transmission = 1
SSS = 1
Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1
Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 1

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 45

Azimuth = 90

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 0.510

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 2

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 1

Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 10

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 45

Azimuth = 90

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 0.510

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 2

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 1

Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = White

Elevation = 45

Azimuth = 90

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 0.510

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 2

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 1

Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 45

Azimuth = 90

Intensity = 3

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 0.510

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 2

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 1

Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 45

Azimuth = 215

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 0.510

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 2

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 1

Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 25

Azimuth = 215

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 0.510

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 2

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 1

Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 25

Azimuth = 215

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 2

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 2

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 1

Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 25

Azimuth = 215

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 2

Enable Sun = False

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 2

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 1

Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 10

Azimuth = 215

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 2

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 2

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 1

Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 90

Azimuth = 215

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 2

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 2

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 1

Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 25

Azimuth = 215

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = Green

Sun Tint = Red

Sun Size = 2

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 2

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 1

Volume Indirect = 1

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 1

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 25

Azimuth = 215

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 2

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 4

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 0

Volume Indirect = 0

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 3

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 70

Azimuth = 30

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 2

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 4

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 0

Volume Indirect = 0

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 3

Exposure = 0

Physical_Sky Settings

Turbidity = 3

Ground Albedo = Dark Grey

Elevation = 70

Azimuth = 30

Intensity = 1

Sky Tint = White

Sun Tint = White

Sun Size = 2

Enable Sun = True

Sampling Settings

Camera (AA) = 3

Diffuse = 4

Specular = 2

Transmission = 1

SSS = 0

Volume Indirect = 0

SkyDome Settings

Samples = 3

Exposure = 1