Questions tagged [hdri]
High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) refers to the set of imaging technologies and techniques that allow to increase the dynamic range of images or videos. It covers the acquisition, creation, storage, distribution and display of images and videos. Use this tag for questions relating to 360 degree HDRI lighting setups.
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How to use built-in default HDRi's in renders?
Blender 2.8 and newer contains a number of HDRi's in it by default for LookDev. I'd like to know how to use them in final renders (EEVEE or Cycles), because quite frankly they appear fantastic.
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How to hide hdri background?
I have added an hdri environment file and i want to use the lights and not the background image. Is there any option present to hide the image and just use the light source.
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How can I create a silhouette using HDR in cycles?
In real life, when taking pictures with a bright background the object you are looking at becomes mostly black. How can I get this effect in Blender?
I would like the monkey to become a silhouette ...
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How can I get HDRI shadows in an Eevee scene? [duplicate]
I'm currently testing Eevee. Seems so promising !
Here, i'm trying to make my Eevee render the closest I can to my previous render Cycles of the same scene.
This scene do not have any lights but an ...
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Make texture visible in sunlight
I would like to make my textures visible in sunlight. I adjusted the exposure but that didn't help:
Right now when sunlight hits my textures they turn white. I want to be able to see the texture even ...
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Changing HDRI exposure within Blender
I've been looking for some HDRs to use in an animation, and I realize that they're going to be exceptionally expensive.
This is why I'm wondering if I can change the exposure of an HDR from within ...
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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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How to scale properly HDRI image, to be used in ASC-CDL HDR render?
I've been test rendering lighting my scene using HDR images, trying to get the right value of light and shade from. The problem is, no matter what I do, I can't get the full spectrum in one image, ...
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In Blender 2.8, how do I light an EEVEE scene with an HDR?
Blender 2.8 supports the same world node setup that Cycles does. This correctly puts the HDR image in the world background.
But EEVEE doesn't light the scene properly. Everything looks flat and ...
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How can I convert multiple mirror ball exposures into an HDR?
I was hoping I could use Blender's compositor to merge multiple mirror ball exposures into an HDR.
I have 7 images, each with different exposures, all aligned, each square, 32-bit tiff format. Yet ...
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World texture doesn't show no matter what only in Cycles
No matter if it's an environment texture or just a solid color it shows black.
I've even tried import worlds I made in other files
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Blender reflects an HDRI that no longer exists in a project and ignores current ones
I am using Blender 3.2 and I have project that I started with 2.8 or 2.9 if that matters. I changed the HDRI map but no matter what, when roughness is low, it reflects that old HDRI, it even reflects ...
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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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Blender 2.8 - Transparent background
How to make transparent background in blender 2.8 with HDRI on?
After selecting "Film" - "Alpha" -> "Transparent"
I still have my HDRI on the rendered image
Please help
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HDRI not appearing as the background
I am trying to get an HDRI image load on a small project I am working on. When I go into Shading to set it up, and switch over to Rendered view nothing shows up.
I would really appreciate a solution ...
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Render looks way different from viewport render mode. How can I fix this?
I'm trying to make a test render of my model. But everytime I render it the render looks completely different from the viewport. The viewport is in render mode so it should look something like that, ...
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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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HDRi not visible when using Mist pass
I am using Blender 2.83 and want to create a scene with a lot of fog, so I've been using the Mist pass. However, this makes the HDRi invisible. Is this a limitation of the Mist pass or are my settings ...
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Difference 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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Blender 2.8 Cycles Projecting world background to an object
How can i project world environment hdri texture to an object,like camera mapping, i know i can use a material that has only shadows for later compositing it,and rendering the world environment alone, ...
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Using "Material Preview" HDRI in Renders?
I know that I can use default HDRI maps in Rendered mode in Blender right now, but the problem is when I wan to render the image by F12 (or render movie), my settings are changed to use "scene ...
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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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Can I use an HDRI for reflections only, and not have its light affect the scene?
I have my scene perfectly lit without the use of a HDRI, however I would now like to add one just so I can have some world reflections in my glossy objects. I can't seem to get the HDRI reflecting in ...
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HDRI appears blocky (past blurry)
This is a 1K HDRI I'm using and it appears extra blocky, past the point of being called blurry. Last I worked on it it wasn't like this and at least I could define what was in the image. Now it's just ...
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required amount of light is not coming inside the room
I have a bedroom scene in which there are two doors and two windows. Even Using portals doesn't give me results what is in my mind. I need illuminated inside scene. When both of the windows are open ...
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Fade distant geometry into the background (EEVEE)
I have a scene mainly with a big floor composed of adjacent rectangular cuboids (roads), and an equirectangular projection texture (environment texture, HDRI, skydome...) as the background.
I would ...
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Something is wrong with my hdri
I'm not sure how to describe it with words but when I add my hdri it looks completely messed up. Anyone who knows what's going on and how to fix it?
In blender:
How it's supposed to look:
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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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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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Adjusting a texture's color temperature
I'm fairly new to Blender. I have a HDRI background and I wonder if it's possible to adjust the texture's color temperature using a blackbody node.
Thanks in advance.
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How can we setup hdri background image so that camera can move around an object which appear stable relatively to the hdri image?
What I want to do is to render an animation where the rendered objects are not moving, but the camera is moving around them. OK for it.
But from that I want to use a hdri image in background which is ...
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Use a HDRI just for lighting and change the background color
I want to use a hdri just for the light and i want to change the color of the background in white.How can I do that ?
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Does HDR sky resolution change a lighting?
I was wondering if I can use 2k/4k hdr skies instead of 8k but I want the best lighting and i don't know if the resolution changes anything so I decided to ask. thanks!.
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Blender - HDR makes objects too bright
I started to use blender 3 weeks ago and I am currently trying to do an outdoor scene.
I wanted to use an hdr image fot lighting, as blender guru does -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI_FMa-8w50&...
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Why are all my HDRIs displaying distorted?
Here's an image of the distortion. And here are my shader settings
I'm just a beginner in Blender, and at first my HDRIs (from HDRI Haven) were working fine, but now they all display distorted as ...
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What does the pixel value mean in HDRI?
I am new to Blender and HDR. I wonder if there are any physical meaning for the pixel value in a HDR image. For the image example below, it has pixel values ranging from 0.000 to 27904.000
Does it ...
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World HDRi map - colors doesn't match?
I've created a custom environment texture (see below) and tried to apply it to the image. For some reason the texture comes out blue. The photo itself is not tinted (daylight-balanced floodlight and ...
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Setting scaling to 1, but keeping object size in meters
I open a new file in Blender, so I get the Cube. The edge lengths of the Cube are 2 meters. Now I change the scale factor from 1 to 2, so the edges grow to 4 meters.
Is there a way to set the scale ...
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How to view Environment texture in Solid / Texture / Material view?
I saw this happening in some tutorial, but have forgotten for the moment,
What I want is : To make the HDR environment texture appear in 3D viewport without going into Render Mode. I can use the ...
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Using multiple HDRIs when moving between rooms
I want to "walk" a rendered object from one room to another. I have filmed and tracked a background plate of the camera move and the room.
The object contains reflective sections, and the ...
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My render is coming out buggy
Good night, I'm a beginner in Blender and I finished my first render in it, but when rendering in the cloud farm (my laptop doesn't have the hardware to render) Super Renders and in Turbo Render, the ...
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Is it possible to add an HDR to the default 9 that blender comes with
I want to add it into the default library (drop down window headed Viewport Shading),NOT just create one using an environment texture node within the Shading setup.
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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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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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How can an equidistance, spherical panorama image be generated from Blender Cycles? [duplicate]
I'd like to use Blender cycles to generate an image which can be used as a world background image. An example is this kind of image is from hrdmaps.com
How can a blender scene be rendered like this?
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Compositor : preserve jpeg in sRGB while using Filmic on 3D render [duplicate]
In order to tweak material colors on my 3D photo-montages, I would like to quickly superimpose a 3D scene render on top of a jpeg image in the compositor. However, since I use a filmic look for the ...
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How do I achieve this realistic look?
I am trying to copy a video with Blender.
I am using a HDRI world environment image but no post effects.
As one can see, my version still looks different:
Can anybody tell me what my scene is missing ...
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How can I get the filepaths of all default/built-in hdris?
I'd like to use the default studio light hdris in a script. I was going to create a custom path based of bpy.app.binary_path and then I realized that the storage ...
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How to control enviroment texture with collection visibility?
I'd like to control HDRI with collection visibility.
Created 3 different Worlds with 3 different HDRIs, and would like to change them with collection visibility.
Here's what I've been trying so far:
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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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