Just wondering... how would one go about making a beach sunset?
I figure there'd be a lot of lighting work involved but I'm not sure what sort of lighting should be used.

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Maya physical sun may be, its the suns angle that would give you that light possibly.........dave

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Good lighting would be blue shadows and orange/yellow hilights....the physical sun as Dave mentioned has these attributes built in and adjusts itself acccording to the light angles

J

Have a look at this tutorial if you haven't seen it before, it's really nicely made and goes over different lighting scenarios;

https://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/tutorials/light03.htm

Ah, I guess I should finally decide to learn how to use this physical sun and sky.

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Is it me..... Or is this topic of physical sun and sky cropping up again and again in different forums on simply Maya. There's a tutorial in the making, somewhere, there, isn't there?

you'd be right I think. I've avoided it because someone said you shouldn't use it... but mostly because people say it gets misused.
i think it's one of those things that never goes away, i didn't think about using it until it was suggested by multiple people.

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