Night time starry sky for IRAY?

keithml

I am looking for a night time clear starry sky for my outside IRAY renders.  I generally need this for Terradome 3 renders, but not exclusively. Anyone have any suggestions? 

 

Thanks,

Keith

Lindsey

I highly recommend TerraLUNA 3

vwrangler

Note that TerraLUNA3 requires Terradome 3 for Studio; it's not a freestanding product, and the note on the main promo is easy to miss. (I only mention that because when I just checked, the Required Products field had gone walkabout again, as it seems to do every so often.)

Fishtales

vwrangler said:

Note that TerraLUNA3 requires Terradome 3 for Studio; it's not a freestanding product, and the note on the main promo is easy to miss. (I only mention that because when I just checked, the Required Products field had gone walkabout again, as it seems to do every so often.)

According to this it is.

"Bring the power of the Moon and moonlight to your artistry. TerraLUNA 3, while designed for use with TerraDome3, is a stand alone product. You can use TerraLUNA 3 to add moons and moonlight to any setting or scene.

 

TerraLuna is a specially designed prop and "Moon Light" prop combo is enhanced by and features a collection of materials for each. Also included in the package are 12 HDR skies, including 4 Starfield Night Skies."

Just put the HDR into the Environment Map of the Iray Dome.

Lindsey

As Fishtales mentioned it's standalone product and the use of the "Luna" moon prop is optional.  It comes with 12 HDR sky presets, four of them are starry night skies.  The presets load the HDR skies into the Iray render settings Environment Map.  Since you are already a TerraDome 3 user, you'll find it very useful, plus Mortem Vetus' catalog is currenly at March Madness pricing.

Mortem Vetus posted a TerraLUNA 3 Tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyJRNSdQsqk&t=19s

I just rendered Via Serena with one of the Nght Skies.

keithml

Thanks! Sounds like a perfect match.

Llynara

@Lindsay - Thanks for showing us these beautiful renders. I forgot this is a standalone product. I bought it last year and have had trouble using T3 on my system. I recently upgraded but haven't had a chance to try again. Nice to know we have the option of using these without it.