6. Reflection planes / lights
Instead of the skylight, we will use big rectangular V-ray lights to light the scene. They will also be useful for creating nice reflec-
tions (like we did in page 2 of the material settings tutorial).
Create two V-ray lights and position them more or less like I did.
The left light is 400x350 mm with a
3.5 multiplier and the one on the right 360x500mm with 5.5 multiplier.
Then go to the V-Ray environment rollout
and change the skylight multiplier to 0.1.
7. Render what we have for now
I made the right light brighter on purpose,
that way you create shadows falling in one
direction. If you would set them at equal
strengths, the image will be uninteresting
as lighting will be a bit flat, coming in equal
strength from all directions. The bigger
the difference between the two lights, the more dramatic lighting will be.
The first pic shows left=3.5 and right=5.5
The second one has left=2 and right=7
We will continue with the 2/7 settings.