mr physical sky is black

[Ausmax]

Hello,

 

I am using the mental ray daylight system to light my scene and I have let

the system place a mr physical sky map. My problem is that it just appears black

instead of that blue gradient that I have seen in tutorials. I remember it

working for me before, but can't work out how to get that gradient back again.

 

I usually use an instance from the mr physical sky and select a sky background from

my scene. I need the blue gradient because I would like to get some early morning

light happening in the background, haze etc.

 

Could do with some help on this one.

Cheers

[dreamer86]

delete daylight system and creatr another one, overwriting previous settings. also use mr photografic exposure control to get better results.

 

check if mr physical sky (environment tab) is on.

[Ausmax]

Thanks for the reply Thomas,

 

I managed to get the mr physical sky map to render by going into Viewport background and enabling use environment

map and also ticking display background.

 

However, I would really like to see the Physical sky map in the Exposure Control Render preview window.

I can see my objects in the window - it is just the physical sky that appears black.

If I look at the preview window in the material editor for mr physical sky it also appears black - don't know if this is normal??

Edited June 8, 2010 by Ausmax

[dreamer86]

Can you post me a screen of your environment panel?

 

remember that viewport background display only if hardware shading is enabled

[Ausmax]

Here is the screen of the Exposure control.

[alejandroserranomonforte]

click on process background and environment maps

[Ausmax]

Thankyou, yes that worked- not sure how I got confused with that but thanks.