Tutorial 4 Exercise 1: Setting up the Model for Presentation

This exercise gives you the chance to experiment with environmental effects of sun, sky and clouds and other visual effects that affect the appearance of the model.

  1. Go to the Subdivision Street bookmark.
  2. Open the Sun & Sky panel.
  3. Increase Cloud Cover to 25.
  4. Change the Time and Date settings to approximately 17.30 and 10/1.
  5. Open the Visual Effects panel. Change the settings as follows: Brightness = 60, Contrast = 60, Field of View = 70, Ambient Occlusion = ON.
  6. Change the Time setting to approximately 11AM.
  7. Change the Date setting to approximately 3/1.
  8. On the Visual Effects panel, change the settings as follows: Brightness = 50, Contrast = 50, Field of View = 45. Leave Ambient Occlusion = ON.
  9. Close the Sun & Sky and Visual Effects panels.
Parent topic: Tutorial 4: Communication
Next topic: Tutorial 4 Exercise 2: Making Still Images