WEBVTT 00:00.500 --> 00:06.720 Welcome to adding a sky box in this video you will add a sky box to our scene. 00:06.830 --> 00:11.670 Use that sky box as the primary light source for the whole scene. 00:11.780 --> 00:18.780 So just as in this example we have Suzanne the monkey sat on a plane here lit by one lamp. 00:18.770 --> 00:26.390 Now the moment we add a sky box to that it becomes a much more vibrant image and much more interesting 00:26.390 --> 00:30.270 and the whole lighting in the scene is done by that Sky Box. 00:30.320 --> 00:33.350 Plus the original amp that was in the scene. 00:33.350 --> 00:35.170 So now we got an idea of what we're going to do. 00:35.300 --> 00:37.770 Let's hop straight on over in a blender. 00:38.660 --> 00:40.460 Okay so now we're over in blender. 00:40.460 --> 00:45.710 The first thing I'm going to make sure that I do so I'm not sure I've done it yet is saved my file. 00:45.710 --> 00:46.210 Excellent. 00:46.290 --> 00:53.660 Going to Go go ahead and open up a new farson go file a new and reload start up file because we're about 00:53.660 --> 00:58.260 to play with some stuff and I don't want us to break our bunny at this point in time. 00:58.400 --> 01:03.710 So we've got our default cube here we use that as the object in the last seen them skin to lift it up 01:03.710 --> 01:11.500 a little and finally create a mesh plain underneath some skin to add a plate and scale it up. 01:12.400 --> 01:18.360 Excellence is nice and big and perhaps going to grab that and just lower it down ever so slightly and 01:18.360 --> 01:24.270 let's just quickly render that to see how that's looking so far in cycles render for this one by the 01:24.270 --> 01:29.460 way just to make sure you're aware that's going to position the camera so we can see a bit more off 01:29.460 --> 01:30.610 the sky. 01:30.780 --> 01:36.780 So in the outline I know it's a big cramped on my screen here in the outline and been to select the 01:36.780 --> 01:39.190 camera in the. 01:40.050 --> 01:47.370 3D view I'm going to open up the properties pane with the n key and scroll down here too. 01:47.440 --> 01:53.350 Oh I need to be in the camera views of view camera and then I'm going to lock camera to view. 01:53.350 --> 01:59.250 That's just going to allow me to move about quite freely and position the camera where I want it to 01:59.250 --> 01:59.550 be. 01:59.550 --> 02:02.910 And I do want to see a bit of the background as well. 02:03.060 --> 02:05.290 ALAN going to render that again. 02:05.520 --> 02:12.090 Excellent so you've got all of this lot going on here now in order to add a sky box there are a couple 02:12.090 --> 02:13.220 of ways of doing this. 02:13.220 --> 02:18.120 By the way we're going to do it is actually add an image to the world around. 02:18.390 --> 02:25.860 So looking at the fact we're looking at something called the welte so only propertys tab over here is 02:25.860 --> 02:27.680 a picture of a little world. 02:27.900 --> 02:31.000 And if we click on that it gives us a series of options. 02:31.050 --> 02:37.290 Now at the moment we're focussed primarily on where it says surface and at the moment it's got a colour 02:37.290 --> 02:38.790 that is grey. 02:38.790 --> 02:46.040 Now if you change the colour of that nothing will happen here because this is a rendered view. 02:46.050 --> 02:49.090 But I'm going to hop over here. 02:50.040 --> 02:54.340 Not lock for cameras for the viewing to assume in ever so slightly and just switch to render to see 02:54.340 --> 02:55.260 what's happening. 02:55.270 --> 03:01.780 So this colour here actually changes the colour of the world the entire background everything apart 03:01.780 --> 03:05.710 from the plane is going to be this orange colour. 03:05.710 --> 03:12.670 So what we can do is replace that colour with an image. 03:12.670 --> 03:18.970 And there are two types of images that make it very good for backgrounds like the one we're going to 03:18.970 --> 03:19.310 use. 03:19.300 --> 03:24.060 There's an angular image and I remember the other one. 03:24.100 --> 03:27.800 Equatorial no iqua were Find out in a few moments. 03:28.120 --> 03:33.190 Okay so I'm going to click on News Notes there and it needs to be a background which is grey and on 03:33.190 --> 03:37.730 colour I'm going to click the little dots to the right here. 03:37.960 --> 03:42.880 And loads of options here an environment texture is the one that we want. 03:42.880 --> 03:47.020 Now when you select environment it is going to go that horrible pink which means there's not texture 03:47.020 --> 03:48.280 applied yet. 03:48.280 --> 03:49.470 And here we go. 03:49.850 --> 03:51.090 It Quy rectangular. 03:51.100 --> 03:57.810 That's the word I was thinking of every rectangular mirror ball or angular projection angle view. 03:57.820 --> 03:59.700 There's loads of different names for them. 03:59.710 --> 04:04.480 You'll notice the difference between the two of them one essentially is a large stretch out slightly 04:04.480 --> 04:08.060 distorted rectangle and one looks like a sphere. 04:08.230 --> 04:10.530 And where have a look at both of these and see over time. 04:10.690 --> 04:14.010 So let's start with Mirrorball and in your set pack. 04:14.010 --> 04:20.710 If you've not downloaded it please hop back to the assets lecture now and go grab your asset pack and 04:20.740 --> 04:24.970 I'm going to go to open and I'm going to go find my assets. 04:24.970 --> 04:32.980 They'll be slightly different to where you guys store yours and section assets and we have angular map 04:33.520 --> 04:36.710 so we're going to select angular map 24 J pecc. 04:37.590 --> 04:38.400 Excellent. 04:38.400 --> 04:43.850 Now you see straightaway the scene has changed completely and in fact looks a lot more natural. 04:43.860 --> 04:49.810 Now one thing to bear in mind here is because the light is coming from the scene around us. 04:50.040 --> 04:57.570 It's going to be a bit noisier than just from a simple lamp so you will have to increase your samples 04:57.570 --> 05:03.320 when using this type of lighting to get a comparatively smooth image compared to using a lamp. 05:03.630 --> 05:11.310 Now this is a mirror ball and as you can see if I hop out of the camera here and well anywhere will 05:11.310 --> 05:12.990 do so just move round. 05:13.020 --> 05:15.560 We've now got a world around us. 05:15.570 --> 05:21.050 It looks a bit weird on certain areas there seems to be a hole or a point here. 05:21.050 --> 05:27.960 Now this will depend on the quality of your image that you're using these are quite basic images. 05:28.140 --> 05:31.130 And it works pretty well providing you are not looking that way. 05:31.130 --> 05:32.690 That looks very ominous. 05:32.810 --> 05:39.600 If we change Mirrorball to Quee rectangular you can see it doesn't look right at all. 05:39.660 --> 05:42.860 You end up with oh I'm looking through my plane at the moment. 05:42.860 --> 05:43.680 Zoom away. 05:43.800 --> 05:52.980 We've got vats in there and that they're now if we go and open and actually select this item here on 05:53.010 --> 05:55.500 the file menu here. 05:55.550 --> 06:00.360 Well what's this one called a forgotten file browser on this far browser header. 06:00.360 --> 06:05.370 You've got these four pages next to one another but show us images and this is a great way of seeing 06:05.370 --> 06:10.500 that the angular map is this kind of spherical thing and that's the Mirrorball selection and the equally 06:10.500 --> 06:15.390 rectangular ones are the sky moonscape here and Sky photo. 06:15.390 --> 06:18.660 Now let's go ahead and apply one of those. 06:18.840 --> 06:20.810 Wow that looks pretty awesome. 06:21.090 --> 06:27.350 And if we zoom back in to our object we see that the colour has changed because it's primarily blue. 06:27.390 --> 06:33.650 We've actually got ourselves a blue light cast on the rest of our scene. 06:33.660 --> 06:37.800 Now if we scroll down a little further in the properties I'm going to make this window a little bit 06:37.800 --> 06:39.150 bigger for us. 06:39.180 --> 06:44.220 You've got this strength here so you can actually make the light coming from that background. 06:44.370 --> 06:45.240 Stronger or weaker. 06:45.240 --> 06:49.590 So this night time scene for instance obviously we said it to zero. 06:49.590 --> 06:53.820 There is no background no light emitted but obviously with a nice house in it. 06:53.900 --> 06:55.510 From Well I say it wouldn't. 06:55.560 --> 06:58.020 It probably wouldn't be that bright. 06:58.050 --> 07:03.870 So we can play with the figures here and lower it down to maybe not point not one that's probably too 07:03.870 --> 07:04.140 low. 07:04.140 --> 07:06.340 Let's try not point north 5. 07:06.420 --> 07:09.500 You can tinker with these two hearts in lights. 07:09.540 --> 07:15.240 In fact there's a moon there so be quite cool to have the light coming from that direction. 07:15.240 --> 07:17.820 How awesome is that right. 07:17.820 --> 07:20.200 I feel a challenge for you guys coming up. 07:20.990 --> 07:27.500 Okay I'd like you to add a sky box to our scene so add a sky box to our bunny. 07:27.500 --> 07:29.600 Now there are a couple of options to choose from. 07:29.600 --> 07:31.700 Supplied in the asset pack. 07:31.760 --> 07:35.420 Now please feel free to try your own photos or other sky maps. 07:35.450 --> 07:38.910 You have to just give you an idea what I'm shooting for. 07:38.930 --> 07:41.580 I'm going to be shooting for something along these lines. 07:41.750 --> 07:43.520 Have a grey murky day. 07:43.520 --> 07:46.010 Pretty typical day in England anyway. 07:46.090 --> 07:48.670 Both the video now and give that a go. 07:50.640 --> 07:52.280 OK guys welcome back. 07:52.290 --> 07:55.080 Let's go ahead and create our skybox. 07:58.000 --> 08:01.340 Okay so let's go and open up our bunny. 08:02.360 --> 08:06.240 Now once this is open obviously the last thing we rendered here was the eye. 08:06.290 --> 08:07.430 It doesn't show any image. 08:07.430 --> 08:09.830 Someone might pop into my 3-d view. 08:09.830 --> 08:16.010 Oh man we've got the eye there and the unhide everything for the moment just so I can see what's going 08:16.010 --> 08:18.090 on on the larger picture. 08:18.110 --> 08:22.270 We're going to have to switch around to a different camera rather than just the camera. 08:22.530 --> 08:26.550 We're still moving the I can turn off that's him. 08:26.570 --> 08:34.250 Let's see if this camera will do the 30 of the 80 mill one is probably the one that I want. 08:34.400 --> 08:35.040 So I'm going to. 08:35.060 --> 08:37.960 Cameras and set the cameras to objects. 08:38.000 --> 08:41.030 Yes there's a good bit of the background in there. 08:41.030 --> 08:42.460 That's what we want to see. 08:42.670 --> 08:43.550 I am just going. 08:43.550 --> 08:47.690 I'm not going to end this at the moment because I've done this particular view before and that's going 08:47.690 --> 08:48.930 to take a few moments to render. 08:48.950 --> 08:56.180 But what I am going to do is go straight to the world settings and I'm going to add something to click 08:56.180 --> 08:57.130 on News Notes. 08:57.140 --> 09:00.430 It is a background that's absolutely fine but cover up. 09:00.440 --> 09:03.100 Well I'm going to select an environment texture. 09:03.260 --> 09:08.920 I'm going to do the equip rectangular one which is fine I'm going to open that up. 09:09.050 --> 09:15.560 Go to my section assets and I've got one called Sky photos three and I'm going to pick that one. 09:15.560 --> 09:21.770 I'm just gonna hop here in to rended mode in the viewport shading and see how that looks. 09:21.770 --> 09:25.960 And we've got some clouds coming out there that's looking pretty good. 09:26.240 --> 09:32.320 Let's just move away from here and see how it's how it's mapped out that's fine. 09:32.320 --> 09:36.480 It's like a typical British day actually it looks quite stormy. 09:36.650 --> 09:38.580 I'm quite happy with that. 09:39.310 --> 09:40.020 Excellent. 09:40.030 --> 09:41.290 How did you guys get on. 09:41.290 --> 09:43.990 Of course the final thing to do here is render it of course. 09:43.990 --> 09:49.030 Let's go and hit the render button and let's make this window a little bit bigger so I can see what's 09:49.030 --> 09:51.210 going on now. 09:51.340 --> 09:54.170 I'd love to see what you guys have come up with. 09:54.460 --> 09:57.950 Really look forward to seeing how your rabbits are turning out. 09:58.090 --> 10:00.980 I'm really interested in how this one's going to turn out. 10:01.010 --> 10:08.260 Well we can already see straightaway that the fur itself has taken on a much brighter more vibrant appearance. 10:08.260 --> 10:14.650 This is great bit of lighting because the lighting is now coming from all around our by me rather than 10:14.650 --> 10:18.630 just a one lamp that was in the scene before. 10:18.730 --> 10:20.800 So do render out your bunny. 10:20.890 --> 10:24.180 Please share it in the discussion so I can see how you guys are getting on. 10:24.280 --> 10:26.580 And I will see you in the next lecture.