IвЂ™ve placed it in front of the house at a slight angle to the right. The placement of the VRay physical camera is also an important step of this process.

In the current setup the sun is placed at the back of the house and so weвЂ™ll get soft ambient lighting. Assign the sky map to the texture slot of the Dome light. The higher the range, which is measured in f-stops, the better the lighting it provides. The most important point while choosing HDRI maps is the exposure range.

Other alternatives include HDRI-Hub and Viz-People. In this tutorial IвЂ™ve used one of Peter GuthrieвЂ™s excellent HDRI maps. The first thing we need to do is add a VRay Dome light with and HDRI sky map. The rendering settings are pretty basic for testing the lighting of our scene. Getting the perfect light balance will ensure that our materials and the final scene look amazing from the start. The vegetation has been kept to a minimum for fast test renders. This stuff is the first step to Photo-realistic Render with VRay вЂ“ Make sure you render it with OverrideMtl and VRayEdgeTex to get fast results and concentrate on whatвЂ™s important вЂ“ BALANCING THE LIGHT!ДЇor the purpose of lighting our exterior scene, IвЂ™ll be using this house model with a light grey Override Mtl with dark grey VRayEdgeTex. If you follow these steps right youвЂ™ll get any image to look amazing. At the end вЂ“ Quick post work tricks forВ getting it Right!.CreatingВ landscape lighting by choosing the right IES.Adding artificial lights and populatingВ them organically.PlacingВ VRay Sun and matching it to Environment.Ambiance light of the scene by using HDRI Map.AfterВ setting up a VRay camera and choosing the right angle we start balancing the light: We are going to concentrate on the most important thing вЂ“ balancing the all the aspects of lightВ in the scene. In this video tutorial IвЂ™m going to show you my Step-By-Step method forВ setting up an ExteriorВ SceneВ вЂ“ whichВ will displayВ your Architecture in the most Brilliant way by using 3DsMax, VRay &В Photoshop.

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