Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook

Setting up the environment and lighting

The first thing that we will do is setting up the lighting. We will be using a combination of the sunlight and environment lighting.

Getting ready

Let's open the chapter05_empty.blend file. As you can see, this time the interface is slightly different than usual. Due to the nature of the image, a vertical layout should be better for this particular scene. We will start by setting up the lighting and the materials for the environment.

How to do it…

To create the various materials, we will be performing the following steps:

Lighting and render settings

1. Add a Sun light and place it behind the camera. The direction has to be similar to the camera's, but the angle to the ground shall be bigger.
2. Set Color to RGB 1, 0.98, ...