Lighting Exterior Shots
The easiest way to light an outdoor scene is to enable Ambient Occlusion with the Sky Texture option, throw in a sun lamp, and turn on ray shadows.
Are red lights flashing and sirens going off in your head? They should be. The AO+sun lamp method is not going to work for animation.
Fortunately, there is a new nonray-based ambient occlusion method available. One of the downsides of the original ray-based AO, besides its lack of speed, is that even at maximum quality, it is not completely smooth, giving a slight grain to every surface it touches. This grain is different on every frame and could produce a noisy effect when animated. That made it unusable on everything but the highest (slowest) quality settings. Although the ...
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