Maya Tutorial: Atmosphere

Fig 1: Without Atmosphere added

Fig 2: With Atmosphere Added

Because of the addition of Arnold as the standard in Maya 2017 and 2018, the capabilities of producing realistic renders has increased. An example of this is with the Arnold Environment setting in the Arnold Render settings which allows for the addition of atmosphere to interact with lighting in the scene, it is also able to be customised to allow for many uses. Setting an Atmosphere allows for a more realistic render and Arnold has made it easier to enable this addition to the render in comparison to mental ray in older versions.