iRadiance HDR Resources - Parks and Rec Vol 1

Kev914

Could someone who has one of these products explain how it works? (I tried to find a product discussion, but the search didn't bring one up that I could find.)

There are some icons for a Ref Dome prop. If I load that and I render, the backgroud is black, but the figures were visible. Is the ref dome, just so you can get an idea of how it will look?

There are some shaders. Do these apply to the actual dome in the render settings? Maybe I did something wrong, but the backgrounds all came out blurry for me. For the image I was doing, that was OK. Is there a way to make them clear as well?

There were also a series of icons that were marked 2k, 4k, 8k. Does this set the light? 2K is darker than 8K? Or are they for something else? That how they seemed to work for me.

I did look for a manuel in the product folder, but I didn't find one.

Thanks.

Dim Reaper

I don't have that exact product, but I do have another iRadiance HDRI resource by DimensionTheory.  To test them, start with a new scene, then in the folder where you are seeing the icons 2k, 4k etc, those are the ones that you want to double-click to load the HDRI.  You won't see them until either you render in iray or switch on the iray preview mode.

The 2k, 4k etc refer to the resolution of the background HDRI image.  So if you use the 2k one, it will be blurry but take up less memory.  The 8k one should give you a relatively clear background image, but at the cost of using more RAM or GPU memory..

Kev914

Thanks for the response, Dim Reaper.

Dim Reaper

KevinH said:

Thanks for the response, Dim Reaper.

No problem.  Hope that you've got it working.