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HDRI Lighting and Product Questions

DDCreateDDCreate Posts: 1,418
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I have extremely limited experiance with HDRI lighting but I came across a couple products today that seem like they would be great. I'd like to buy them but am curious if anyone can tell me how they work. I have worked with interior light rigs and pretty much just use distant lights at 5600deg for outdoor scenes.

http://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-iray-hdr-interiors

http://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-iray-hdr-outdoor-environments

If I were to buy these, would I find them under the lighting tab? How do I apply them in my scene? If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    No, most likely they'll be in the Environment section of the Render Settings tab.  And they appear to be scene loads, as opposed to render presets.

    They'll utilize the Iray 'dome'.

  • DDCreateDDCreate Posts: 1,418

    And if my scene doesn't come with a dome?

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    In Iray, it is a virtual dome...and always present.   It can be turned off by selecting Scene Only in the Envrionment section of the Render settings.  By default it is not drawn, when rendering and that can be changed by flipping Draw Dome to On.  That's where all Iray HDRIs should be loaded.

  • RedzRedz Posts: 1,459

    These sets do come with render settings, found under Light Presets, so you can just double click and the HDR will be loaded to the dome. Be aware that the HDR image will only show up in the actual render or in the Iray preview mode. It won't show in texture-shaded view. 

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