topic Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render? in Arnold General Rendering Forum

How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

lee_griggs — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:06:53 GMT

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

lee_griggs — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:09:42 GMT

You can set the Sky Radius to 0 in the Viewport attributes of the Skydome light. An easier thing to do is add the following to a hotkey:

setAttr "aiSkyDomeLight1.skyRadius" 0;

As this is a frequently asked question we have provided both the question and answer in this thread.

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

Michael_Todd — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:10:03 GMT

You can also not show lights in the VP.

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

ece3k — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:31:03 GMT

This worked to hide the sky dome in the viewport but it still rendered for me in the renderer.

How do we see it in viewport but it doesn't visibly render as a background?

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

lee_griggs — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 07:39:13 GMT

You can disable Camera Visibility.

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

darioOrtisi — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 08:31:09 GMT

@Lee on the transform node of the Skydome. "Display" set LOD visibility to off(flag check off)

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:30:28 GMT

It depends on what renderer you are using, I'm going got assume that you are using Arnold, select the skydome light and then in attributes section find the 'Arnold' section and set the 'Camera' scroll bar to 0. This will prevent Arnold form rendering your hdri in the view but it will still be used to light the view. Hope it helps : )

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

l.croisez — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 18:24:17 GMT

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Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

ahmed_awad — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:33:32 GMT

Change Value of Camera from 1 to 0

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

lee_griggs — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 10:38:24 GMT

That actually hides it in the render. Setting the sky_radius to 0, hides it in the viewport.

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

a.mansour.vfxcomp — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 13:19:35 GMT

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Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

luisandro.garza — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:19:19 GMT

under the light shape, under visibility turn the camera to 0 and the background won't render.

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

LeslieHe — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 01:35:22 GMT

Thanks, it worked.

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

luisandro.garza — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 02:18:51 GMT

Glad to help.

Re: How can I hide the Skydome light in the view port and still have it affect the render?

zoharl — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 12:49:17 GMT

display> object display> template

Edit: doesn't render..