V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max — Exterior lighting techniques

You’ll learn how to efficiently use V-Ray Sun and Sky to create natural lighting. We’ll also explore how you can quickly create different lighting scenarios to improve your workflow. Then we’ll take a look at how we can further improve our lighting by mixing HDRIs with V-Ray Sun. Finally, we’ll switch to a night scene by adding some artificial lights and finish our render with the help of V-Ray Light Mix.

You'll go over the main ways we can create natural lighting using the V-ray Sun and sky we will explore lighting scenarios and techniques that can improve the workflow after that you will learn how you can improve the lighting by mixing hdris and the v-ray sun.

An important part of getting a faster result is the denoiser, For production renders you can use the v-ray denoiser as it provides greater quality of denoising, for testing purposes Nvidia's AI or Intel Open Image Denoiser are fine, because they give much faster initial feedback, so iterating is easier.