questions relating to the usage of 360 degree HDRI lighting setups.
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2.8 Eevee HDRI Not Working [on hold]
First time here. HDRI works fine in Cycles, but shows nothing in Eevee. Any suggestions?
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Background image reduces light from HDRI
I'm building an interior scen consisting of a room with four windows, see image below. Behind the four windows, on the outside I have a plane with a background image to get a nice view from the camera....
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some of my hdri thumbnails won't load, why?
All hdri's are from hdri haven and all files work when loaded but some thumbnails don't show in the menu. Are they too big of a file or something?
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How to eliminate black stripe on the horizon from HDRI textures?
I was wondering how can I eliminate the black stripes when I render HDRI textures. I'm new at the HDRI world.
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Blend/Interpolate between multiple Environment Textures based on Location
I am looking for a way to blend/interpolate between different environment textures based on location. Similar to how realtime engines bake reflection map arrays and blend between them, but I will be ...
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Baking environment light not working
hey guys I am getting the wrong result everytime I am baking.
I am pretty sure I am doing something wrong I am just I am getting the following result from following this guys tuts:
https://www....
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What is happening to my HDRI? [duplicate]
I have been trying all the troubleshooting that was to find in here and on google. Can somebody please explain to me what settings that is wrong since my world map is showing up HUGE in the background ...
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How do I make custom environment textures? [duplicate]
so quick question, I was wondering if there is a way to make a completely CG environment texture in Blender.
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How do i make shadows in the hdr enviroment? [duplicate]
I'm working in a character project and i'd like to use an HDR, my problem is that i also would like to put the shadows of the character in the HDR ground and i don't know how i could do it.
Here is ...
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My Hdri backround isnt showing up in render for some camera angles
My water fluid simulation has multiple camera angles, when i render as an animation my the first 59 frames render correctly from one camera angle.
When the camera changes at frame 60 the hdri ...
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prorender problem HDRI
Any idea why this is happening in prorender? I tried everything. But I can not solve it.
It looks like HDRI is overturned.
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Baking Textures with HDRI
This is a fairly decent window frame using HDRI however the bake does not seem to be using this lighting. Do I need to use regular lighting?
Render:
bake:
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Hdri, controlling the image exposure vs the light it is casting
I have a scene where I am using a HDRI as the environment lighting but also using it as the background image, now the problem I have is that the image seems to be a lot darker than the light it is ...
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360 Video Environment
I am making an animation in which I need to have a 360 video in the background as the environment texture in World panel instead of an HDRi. Is there any way to so this?
Thanks.
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How to blur HDRI image in cycles [duplicate]
How to blur HDRI image in cycles. What nodes i have to setup in the world tab to make it blur and control the blur effect.
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HDRI With Volumetric to Create Throw Pattern?
I have a scene below where I am wanting to get an HDRI image to come in through the windows and light the scene in the window areas and have a god ray like effect. I want to do this with a volumetric ...
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Differece between Blender 2.8’s camera and world HDRI
Does one of you know whats the difference between Camera HDRI and World HDRI
Blender 2.8 now have these options to import Viewport HDRIs
I've noticed that if i import a file (either .hdr, .exr, .png,...
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Distance of HDRi backgrounds
Almost 90% of the time I light my scenes with an HDRi background.
Is there a way to control the virtual distance of the background image so I can control bokeh and blurriness of the image when using ...
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Weird reflections from HDRi
I have been having some problem with reflections in my windows and can't find out what I am doing wrong. I have purchased 2 car models and I get the same problem with the windows. Is is the model ...
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HDR Not Scaling Properly [duplicate]
just had a quick question. Should be a simple fix. When I am trying to bring in HDRs for lighting, it seems to not be scaling or working properly. I can't see the HDR in the background. I have ...
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How to create a larger light radius with an HDRI
I aligned the sun of the HDRI with my scene and strengthen it a bit. But the result seems a bit weird to me. I have a real big sunbeam in the middle of the scene that generates clipping on the plane ...
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Different textures for preview and render
If I have textures and HDRI at both low and high resolution on my disk, is there a way to load the low resolution ones when viewing the "rendered" viewport, and the high resolution ones only at ...
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How to Fix Overly Refractive Window?
I just recently got back into doing 3D work after being out of it for over a decade and jumped back into Blender.
The problem I'm having is with some strange scaling with an HDRI image I have. In ...
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Exposure in the viewport is drasticly different than the render [duplicate]
Okay, I am used to slight differences between my view port and the test/final renders, but this is really odd. I have never had the exposure be this far off!
What am I doing wrong here?
I am on 2....
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Creating a world background different from the HDRi [duplicate]
Recently I was trying to figure out the following in Cycles: I was using HDRi file A to light my scene, but I desired to have only HDRi file B visible in the background (i.e. using an HDRi of a ...
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Turn off HDRI shadow casting
Is there a way to make an HDRI light setup not cast shadow? I Want to light my scene with an HDRI, but control the shadow with an normal lamp.
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World background color/HDRI was transparent in render [duplicate]
I disabled world background for the camera, and made some renders. But then I decided to use HDRI and it doesn't work. It's still transparent in renders.
I see it on reflections and through the glass ...
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Strange liquid in glass and thick glass behavior
I am doing a chemistry render but I am struggling with my cupric sulfate solution in a flask in Blender : the Volume Absorption node doesn't really works as expected.
I have a too light area and a ...
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Factor: 0 in mix shader results in HDR disappearing
I am working on a project for my science class due on Wednesday. My project is an animation which starts with zoom in on water, and then on atoms, then on subatomic particles, then on the quarks in a ...
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HDR Image Rendered circular
I just loaded in a HDR image using the node editor using the Environment Text and it renders well the mountains in the distance look good but then the bottom of the image is twisted in a circular ...
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Restrict hdri from casting shadows
Is there any way to stop the hdri from casting shadows ? I only want the reflection/light.
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How to get rid of HDR reflection? [duplicate]
I have this scene where i want to keep the HDR lighting, but not necessarily the reflection in the windows. I want the reflection to be blue, sky coloured. How can i reflect the sky part of the HDR in ...
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How can I fix this distortion on this HDRi background?
I'm trying to learn how to implement HDRi images into my background to improve render quality, and such. Here is the issue I'm having.
I was wondering if anyone knew whether the black hole in the ...
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How do I output to HDR10 Movie format in Blender?
Ok, so I have just purchased an HDR10 compatible 3840*2160 Display (4K), and I want to render some videos in Blender to look at in full HDR10 glory on it.
However it's Roku TV based OS has ...
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Background plate for interior render with windows
I'm making an interior scene in Blender (you can check it below) using two light sources. One sun lamp and an environment hdr image.
I'm happy with the result but I need to have something outside the ...
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How do I add an HDRI texture environment node? [duplicate]
How do I add a texture environment node in cycles?
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Adding Lighting inside within HDRi Environment (Night scene)
I have been trying to add some lights within HDRi environment.
I can't figure out how to illuminate a sculpture I modeled with spotlights I placed around this model.
Quite frankly, I don't know ...
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HDRI rendering onto parts of a model
Hello everyone and thanks in advance. The resource of already answered questions has really helped me to learn blender after 17 years in Vectorworks.
This is a weird one and I've seen it twice now. ...
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Creating a night sky with clouds
I am trying to create a snowy scene at night. I have created the snow fall, but the thing I am stuck on is having a night sky with heavy clouds. I have tried using the sky addon with blender and have ...
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How can I make HDRI not to reflect on my glass material in cycles?
I have a glass material on the building, the image is attached and I would like the HDRI not to reflect on my glass material on my building.
Any idea on how can I have my HDRI not to reflect on glass ...
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soften shadows projected by HDRi
How can I make make shadows blur as they get further from the object casting them?
I have set up a relatively simple scene witch includes two pots on a clay ground texture, and I am lighting it ...
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Making a HDRI map more subtle creates a drop shadow
I tried following cegaton's answer here to make a HDRI map more subtle, and the result produced generates a darker edge / drop shadow between the 3D objects and the background:
I am not sure what ...
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How can I make my interior scene better lighted?
I am using 2 sun lamps, the principal one has the strength set to 30.000, the other one is pointing in the opposite direction, is bigger, and has the strength at 1200. An HDRI is supposed to light up ...
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What is the purpose of a test environment for rendering and where can I get one?
I am learning Blender and I see a lot of videos where people use like "test environments" to test lighting, reflection, etc.
Something like this (seen in Blender Guru Video)
I was wondering if they ...
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How to lower the horizon using the sky hdrs from 3d wolf
I am using the sky kdrs from 3d wolf but the horizon is too high. On all of my scenes you always see part of the horizon missing. I know with blender guru's hdrs you can change the horizon. So i am ...
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Cycles save as EXR image
I'm using Blender Cycles to bake the rendering result into the texture. Yet, I've observed that many parts of the texture is over-saturated, but I could only save the resulting texture image into a ...
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Restrict HDRI Lighting to affecting certain places
I have a small question. I was trying to get the hdri lighting only through the windows. As you can see, my model has one side of its face open and I don't want the hdri lighting to affect the open ...
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HDR problem while viewing the camera
This happens only when I look from the Camera view while using a HDR.
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How to change the hdri background
I have a simple model and i have used hdri environment image in cycles. I have uncheck the option in camera to hide the environment image. When i press shit+z to render i get the black background. I ...
