The Physical Sky system in Maxwell Render uses a novel approach, offering a wide range of real-life and physically correct parameters to control the look of the sky and the subsequent lighting in the scene. Results range from common Earth values to exaggerated fantasy skies. Users can create pre-sets of sky settings to quickly load a new sky, or share their pre-sets with other users. It’s also possible to save the current sky as an HDR map.
You will be able to control the atmospheric conditions (atmosphere composition), the Sun behavior and your position on Earth (location and time).
Eric Nixon
The environment you create can be saved to disk and loaded on other scenes:
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- From Disk: Allows you to choose a location to load a .sky pre-sets file.
- From Google Earth File: Allows you to choose a location by loading a Google Eath location file in .kml or .kmz formats.
- Preset: The dropdown will list all the saved pre-sets found in the Maxwell/ skies folder.
Save:
- As Preset: Saves a .sky preset file in the Maxwell/ skies folder.
- As HDR: First specify a location for the HDR file, then a resolution. The default format is a longitudinal HDR map (2:1 width to height ratio).
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