With all of those important considerations taken under advisement then, it is time to move forward and start defining the lighting tools that we could potentially make use of on this project.
The obvious initial choice would perhaps be to once again make use of the daylight system in the form of the V-Ray Sun and Sky (TexSky map), using them of course in conjunction with SketchUp's own shadow setting controls.
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While this is an obvious first option to explore, you have hopefully by now come to realize that when lighting in V-Ray, we have the ability to use any kind of lighting rig that we want, mixing, matching, and configuring lighting elements to suit the needs of our current project.
Having said that, the ease of use, power, and quality of the daylight system in V-Ray certainly makes it a serious contender as our lighting tool of choice when working on an exterior setup such as this. So let's go ahead then and explore its controls a little more deeply than we perhaps...