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Moonlight Effect with Twilight's Physical Sky
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:18 pm
by Fletch
Noticing people like to create twilight shots, evening shots, night shots, etc...
they are usually lacking one tiny important light...
Here's a place to start to create a moonlight effect using Twilight's Physical Sky.
- Set your Sun in SketchUp where you would like to have the Moon shining.
- Set your Sun and Sky Parameters as shown here.
Sun Color = 255,237,193
Sun Radius (Sunlight Slider) = 10 (use arrow keys on your keyboard for fine tuning)
Maximum Sun Intensity = 0.8
Sky Brightness = .2
Sky Turbidity = 3
- MoonlightWithPhysicalSky.jpg (70.74 KiB) Viewed 28432 times
After your rendering is complete, be sure to do some polishing of the overall tone/color of the image in an image editor.
Re: Moonlight Effect with Twilight's Physical Sky
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:02 am
by EarthMover
Thanks Fletch. Where do you set the sun Radius size?
EDIT - Nevermind...I got it. It's the slider labled Sunlight.
Re: Moonlight Effect with Twilight's Physical Sky
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:25 am
by MartinK
Thanks Fletch,
I was struggling to find a way to do this without using a Spherical or Skyprobe sky. Another post concerning the "yellow sky at night" issue led me to this post, where, as usual, you provided a great solution.
Thanks again.
Re: Moonlight Effect with Twilight's Physical Sky
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 2:53 pm
by massi-p
what would be the correct settings for version 2? thank you
Re: Moonlight Effect with Twilight's Physical Sky
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 3:20 pm
by Fletch
Be sure you adjust the exposure of your rendering in the Tone Mapping settings. It is critical!
It will depend on several factors, so start with the screenshot shown above and after testing with a rendering, adjust as you think may be needed - ok, V2's environment dialog is
slightly different from the screenshot, but I think you can figure it out with a little effort.
Keep in mind that night shots are rare in photography of architecture, more common are Twilight shots - where the sun has just set, but the sky is still bright and colorful.
As written in step-by-step above:
Set your Sun in SketchUp where you would like to have the Moon shining.
Set your Sun and Sky Parameters as shown here.
Sun Color = 255,237,193
Sun Radius (Sunlight Slider) = 10 (use arrow keys on your keyboard for fine tuning)
Maximum Sun Intensity = 0.8 ("sun strength" in V2)
Sky Brightness = .2
Sky Turbidity = 3
Re: Moonlight Effect with Twilight's Physical Sky
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 7:18 am
by baz
massi-p wrote:what would be the correct settings for version 2? thank you
Re: Moonlight Effect with Twilight's Physical Sky
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:03 pm
by Fletch
RIGHT-CLICK IMAGE AND CHOOSE "OPEN IN NEW TAB" TO SEE FULL-RESOLUTION
- nightskysettings.jpg (243.31 KiB) Viewed 20053 times
However, here's a night scene with uplit trees (uplighting trees) where the moonlight settings are a bit more refined, and are in V2.