Quote - "The shader first, or lighting first, or trying to do both at once and ending up pitching something across the room, was one of the big reasons I gave up. Shaders, and scenes, and lighting, and render settings are so inter-dependent, you can really get lost."

Well  I am lazy and tend to use ALOT of preset lighting rigs
Like the free "smart IBL loader" for C4D  both AR& Vray

Cheers

 

the Milkyway preset sounds familiar.

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i can't find it again, but pretty sure i originally found it in one of these archives

http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

smart IBL from siggraph 2008

http://www.hdrvfx.com/resources.html

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