soft skylight

soft skylight

hi. i´m using sky light for a quick sketch. i´d like to have softer shadows .
Is it possible with skylight?. what parameter shoul i touch¿

Hi and welcome.
The sky light won´t deliver any soft shadows. There are quite different ways to achieve this.
1. Area light, adjust the amount of softness by its size&samples
2. point light; choose a long distance and a large radius and no attenuation.
3. A proper HDRI and the HDRI tag can do wonders.

Check this out: http://www.cheetah3d.de/forum/showthread.php?t=2147

With kindest regards
Frank

normally i use a big sphere, make it editable, flip normals, assign solid color light blue and then put a point light with 8 to 16 samples into.
when clouds are wanted you need a HDRI but that will get noisy or will take very long rendering with finetuning of the radiosity settings.

- archie