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Banging my head against the computer here, How do you get Blue Planet Orbital view to work in IRay?

billyben_0077a25354billyben_0077a25354 Posts: 771
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Yep, I am putting knots on my head.  I picked up Rayn's beautiful Arachnid Class Transport as a Smuggling Ship for a comic I want to do.  I already had the Blue Planet Orbital View by Aako but ahve never used it before.  Tried to use it and when I went to render, everything went black.  What I want to know is how do I convert it to Iray then save it for further use (not having to convert it every time I use it).  I know I will have to convert the planet andf stars over to emisives but not sure how to do it.  I have tried converting items before using Iray shaders with mixed success.  The emissives always give me fits.  I hope we see some more IRay ready Space HDRI's.  I already have HDRI Space but plan on picking up omore during the PA sale.

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,274

    You can use the Iray Sun-Sky Only light, set Exposure Value to about 14.  Nor sure if the stars can be made work, so I've disabled them and everything else except blue_gradient, atmosphere, clouds and ground here. If you apply Iray Uber shader to them you can make further adjustments if necessary.

    Then I've used a starry sky backdrop from here:

    https://www.deviantart.com/sambees/art/Starry-Sky-Stock-102324102

    You can also use Scene Only and use a huge plane mesh light shining down on the planet, it gives a different effect and the possibility to adjust the light direction. See render 2.

    Just save the whole scene after conversion.

     

     

     

     

    blue_planet_sun_sky.png
    1488 x 933 - 2M
    blue_planet_mesh_light.png
    1488 x 933 - 2M
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