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Wondering if anyone has made a skydome for Studio in Hex?  I’ve made a hemisphere, flipped the normals and then UV mapped a sky to it, only all I get is a grey hemisphere when I send it to Studio.  Any ideas what I’m missing?

thanks.

Ed

Studio doesn’t automatically read the textures - you need to load it through the surfaces tab in the diffuse channel.

Here’s a quickie I did to illustrate.

Thank you!  Man, I was pulling my hair out (now I’m bald   ) trying to figure this one out.  Many thanks.

Ed

Also a great way to make HDRI Skys for it is use Bryce 7 Pro with this http://www.daz3d.com/shop/bryce-7-pro-spherical-mapper you can export the render as HDRI images and use it for lighting in your scene in studio.

Just a thought to expand on what your trying to do..

Steve.

Happy to have helped.

Didn’t know Studio could use HDRI - where do you import them?

HDRI? No idea.  I added a shader domain and it also worked as desired.  I constantly amaze myself at how the most simple and obvious datum continues to confuse me!

Maybe its my old age?

Ed

Roygee - 09 October 2012 09:28 PM

Happy to have helped.

Didn’t know Studio could use HDRI - where do you import them?

Hi Roygee
There is a converter in studio that converts your hdri into a tif so its readable by DS, here is a Screenshot for you..

Steve.

Thanks, Sal - please forgive my ignorance - I only ever use DS for the CCT, but I guess I must start learning to use it for renders.  I found the HDR converter - don’t know how, just clicked away and there it was.  Anyway, I clicked on that and it asked for an HDR file, which I located - I have hundreds of them.

It went through some process, but the render was blank.  I then looked into my HDR folder and found it had converted to tiff - now how do I get that into Studio to use in a render?