Blender Cycles: Lighting and Rendering Cookbook

Chapter 4. Creating an Exterior Scene

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes in depth:

• Setting up the lighting with an external plugin
• Creating the road material
• Creating the grass material
• Texturing the tree trunk and creating realistic leaves
• Adding flowers to the scene
• Creating the wood material for the table and the fence
• Giving final touches to the image using render passes

Introduction

After learning how to create an interior scene, we will now see how to set up an exterior scene. Here, we will use different techniques to achieve incredibly natural lighting and see new and beautiful shaders.