Toolkit 2: Lighting and Rendering: Physical Sky Light

Using the node editor

Rendering a small section of the sky

Decreasing turbidity

Increasing turbidity

Altering the ground albedo

Increasing the intensity

Increasing azimuth

Changing the elevation

Increasing the sun size so it becomes more visible in the scene

Disabling the sun to remove it from the scene and to see how this changes the lighting and shadows

Adjusting elevation to see how it affects sky colour (sunrise or sunset)

Adjusting elevation to see how it affects sky colour (daytime, sun above house)

Changing the colour of the sun and sky

Looking at Arnold's render settings in attempts to reduce noise within the render

Looking at how increasing the exposure on the skydome itself can change the look of the render

Render of the daytime scene

Render of the sunrise/sunset scene