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11.2 ifmHosekSkylight
Iray for Maya 2.0 uses a daylight system based on the Hosek skylight model. The ifmHosekSkylight node is designed as a light emitter. It can be used as a background environment as well but it wasn't meant to behave like this. You can use the ifmHosekSkylight model in combination with the ifmSolarConfiguration node to place the sun for a specific place, date and time. For more information on solar configuration, see the section “ifmSolarConfiguration”
There are two ways to create an ifmHosekSkylight node:
Go to the Maya main menu Create➤Lights and select the light you want from the Iray section.
Maya main menu to create environment lights
Alternatively, open the Hypershade and go to the Iray entry. There you will find a section named Lights. Click on ifmHosekSkylight to create a node.
Create Render Node window to create environment lights
Note:
You can create more than one ifmHosekSylight node in the scene and use them for lighting effects.
Attributes of the ifmHosekSkylight node in the Attribute Editor
