sun, hdri, clouds...

[Ros. Riha]

it has been already discussed in many different threads - Exterior Daylight is supposed to change the color mood of the image according the date and time. I ran siple tests - daily animation attached, seasonal has to be uploaded.

To me it seems the sun + autosky itself does not change the color or atmosphere sufficiently... maybe our mistake - what settings should we use?

So forth we are much more succesful with combintion of HDRI sky + sun, rendered in different channels.

Any input is welcome

[Peter Milner]

Seems to work for me.

 

[Ros. Riha]

what am I doing wrong, then? Your result seems fine to me too...

[Peter Milner]

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

You may have your skylight saturation turned up as well.

[Peter Milner]

Saturation was set at 1.0 for this one.

[Wayne Williamson]

Ros try changing your camera angle to see more of the background in the image rather than the ground & re-run your test. I think it is working but you don't see much difference on a matte finish material. If you could see the sky in the background it may be more apparent.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

You can turn sky saturation up a bit if you want-- images get a little too blue for my taste.  Nothing wrong with using HDRI/sun combo if you get it right.