How to illuminate for exterior with scanline rendering?

[mangalore]

Anybody know any technique to illuminate archviz and using the scanline render in max in a similar way as the gnomon tutorial of alex alvarez with maya scanline?

[Tim_Tam]

Haven't seen the tutorial which you're referring, so this is just how I do it.

 

For skylight:

Lightdome of spotlights with low value and low resolution shadowmaps with high sampling amount.

 

For sun:

Direct target light with raytraced shadows.

 

There are few free maxscripts that do this automatically.

http://www.lightrigger.com/

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/e-light/

[mangalore]

Wow, both looks promising i will give them a try to see which one perform best and also will try with you suggestion.