[Solved] Tropical Beach Set: How to Disable Sky?

Tynkere · May 2022

How do I disable Tropical Beach’s sky and keep “Maui” or other iRay environments?

The sky image seems to be part of the figure itself? Can’t find the image for it. I’ve looked in Environment, Render, and Texture panes. I-ray environment set for “Maui” but is getting ‘covered’ (for lack of a better term) by the “Tropical Beach” sky. So where's the set's 'sky' image so I can ditch it? ; )

Just Maui

All bones hidden but "sky" is still covering iray dome. : 0 !

IceCrMn · May 2022

Several ways to do this, all done on the "Render Settings" pane.

1) Click on the map you have your mouse hovering over on Render Settings>Environment Map and select "none" from the list.

That will remove the map, and leave you in a "Sun-Sky only type environment.

2) Switch the "Environment Mode" to Sun-Sky Only".

3) Switch the "Environment Mode" to "Scene Only" if you plan to light it yourself.In this mode the camera headlamp will most likely turn it self on automaticly.

If you don't want that either you can switch it off under General>Auto Headlamp drop down menu "never".

or

4) Switch "Draw Dome" to "Off" and you keep the lighting from the HDRI but hides the image

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This is where you would set any HDRI or exr you wanted to use for the Environment lighting for the "Dome and Scene" or "Dome Only" environment modes.

Click "browse..." and navigate to the location of the HDRI or EXR file you would like to use and click it.Studio will put it in the map slot for use.

note: You can use any file you want here, but HDRI and EXR tend to have better results because they store light and other usefull information/data.

Tynkere · May 2022

Thanks. Not sure what I did, but removing dome environment then putting it back seemed to work.

Anyone know of better beach environment? The idea is that they’ll be beach coming, playing in surf & so on. I’d be using ground & water planes.

“Maui” preset might limited if want sun facing actors. (Mountains not surf in background)

Store didn’t seem to have many. Two examples if helps for any suggestions. : )

https://www.daz3d.com/hdri-beach-super-pack

https://www.daz3d.com/ultrahd-iray-hdri-with-dof-sunny-beaches-pack-1

FSMCDesigns · May 2022

First off, don't use an HDRI as it's not an environment, but an image used for lighting and background. If you plan to have characters interacting with the beach environment, you will need actual 3D mesh parts like these

https://www.daz3d.com/glowing-beach

https://www.daz3d.com/my-beach

https://www.daz3d.com/seaside-walkway-vignette

https://www.daz3d.com/island-house

rosseliani · May 2022

Tynkere said:

How do I disable Tropical Beach’s sky and keep “Maui” or other iRay environments?

The sky image seems to be part of the figure itself? Can’t find the image for it. I’ve looked in Environment, Render, and Texture panes. I-ray environment set for “Maui” but is getting ‘covered’ (for lack of a better term) by the “Tropical Beach” sky. So where's the set's 'sky' image so I can ditch it? ; )

Wich Tropical Beach? Wich Product? Is it a product you bought from the Daz store? From another store? Or a Freebie?

Please give us more information about the problematic item if you want us to help.

Tynkere · May 2022

FSMCDesigns said:

First off, don't use an HDRI as it's not an environment, but an image used for lighting and background. If you plan to have characters interacting with the beach environment, you will need actual 3D mesh parts like these <snip>

Get the feeling this product might not be for closeups.

On my monitor, looks like texture mismatch?