When asking for a sun, what sun?

[Vancliff]

Is a light named sun or what?

[arneoog]

If you're going to use Sun Light you'll need to create a sun
(mti menu -> create -> Sky Light)

[CTZn]

Ehem... That will create a nurbs sphere wich is just a holder, it will not be rendered. Placing the "Sun" will draw a vector from the origin of the scene to the sphere, pointing toward the sun in the render. Note than you could as well use a locator named "Sun", or whatever with this exact name (and SunShape as name of the shape).

[ThatDude33]

using the command does create a nurbs sphere, but nurbs are not exported, so you just get the sun, but not the actual nurbs sphere. mti draws a vector from the sphere's center to (0,0,0), and uses this for the sun's direction, so it is nice to have your scene centered at (0,0,0)

and yes, naming any object Sun will make mti use it as the sun's placeholder, but it is not recommended, since my script takes the translate values of the object. in other words, it's safest to just stick with the sun created by the exporter when you use the create->sun command