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Easiest way to switch between Day and Night setup

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PGD:
Hello,

I wondered how you switched between a Day and Night scene the easiest. As you know sometimes you need a mixture of daylight and dusk/night views

With Vray, I'd setup a vraydome light with a HDRi on one layer. Then another layer with a daylight HDRi light setup (or Sun). Then have 2 cameras, one with Day settings and another with longer exposure etc for a night setup. To switch, I'd hide or unhide the appropriate layer, switch the camera and render.

I guess with Corona I can switch the Environment slot, then camera and render which is no more difficult. I just wondered what your workflow is.

TomG:
Or you could use LightMix, then you can adjust lighting from night, day, evening, etc. all without re-rendering (and if you save to CXR, can do that in the Corona Image Editor, at any time in post). You can also then save configs for the tone mapping for day or night etc exposures, and configs for the LightMix day and night settings.

PGD:
LightMix can do all that - wow! I'm sceptical about that but I'll give it a try. So much to learn!

TomG:
There's a Max tutorial at to get you started (it's older though and needs redoing, as it doesn't cover new functionality such as support for multiple procedural or HDRI skies)

For some newer features in LightMix, the C4D tutorials at and cover some uses of multiple suns/skies, and the principles are the same as in Max so relevant info can be extracted from those.

And there's the helpdesk articles at https://support.corona-renderer.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402308935569-How-to-use-interactive-LightMix- and https://support.corona-renderer.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402596630417

Hope this helps get you started!

PGD:
Fantastic, thanks very much for that!

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