Creating sky in AutoCAD 2011

[kwiaci]

Hi Everyone !

 

I have some problems with ading sky to my drawing while rendering and at all. I read all decs and I can't find out what's wrong. Here is a screenshot of what I have now with properties shown. Can you tell me how to add a sky in a background ?

I have LIGHTINGUNITS set to 2.

[ReMark]

Do you simply want to add a background or do you want to add sunlight to a scene?

[kwiaci]

I want to add sunlight to a scene. I want to have a nice exterior picture with such a sky with sun.

[ReMark]

Do you have Sky Background with Illumination enabled?

[ReMark]

Might be of interest to you.

 

 

Source: AutoCAD tutorial Visualization: Basics of Rendering in AutoCAD 2009.

[ReMark]

Above mentioned tutorial can be downloaded from here. Includes a dwg file as well. Perhaps it will answer your question.

 

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=10975906&linkID=9240615

[Bill Tillman]

I'm not clear on your settings but I found my problem in turning on the Sky was due to PERSPECTIVE variable being set to 0, not to 1. The sky won't turn on or allow you to turn it on unless this variable is set to 1.

[kwiaci]

Thanks guys ! PERSPETIVE was a problem. Now everything works fine. I couldn't find this command on a ribbon, where it is ?

[Bill Tillman]

I hate the ribbon and get rid of it immediately. It's a personal choice. I am a very fast typist and learned long ago that moving your hands between your keyboard and your mouse is time consuming. Worked at a place where they refused to even consider anyone for employment who couldn't use the HOT+KEYS. Anyway I use the command window alot of the time and for this one I just type PERSPECTIVE.