Can you make an HDRI with a moving picture?

dan2050

Is it possible to animate an HDRI picture, such as having the waves move in a beach HDRI? If someone thinks it can be done any suggestions as to how?

WendyLuvsCatz

AFAIK  not in DAZ studio, even using scripts for animating textures 

the environment dome is not animatable

you also of course need a series of animated HDR images 

but other render engines such as Octane can but I think you need to send it to the Standalone not the free D|S plugin so pricey 

Alembic or Sagan works for that

also Blender which is free and Diffeomorphic to get there

Carrara and Poser can do it

edit

did you mean can you animate a static HDR file?

that's a different topic with a few answers 

I myself render 360 exr or tiff  files for making YouTube panoramic videos so that is definitely doable 

one can probably use AI to animate an actual static HDR file too

dan2050

I basically want someone walking on a beach with the water moving and trees swaying. I've been thinking of animating textures on a simple backdrop rather than an HDRI, and working out how to hide the edges where they intersect ground models etc.

WendyLuvsCatz

dan2050 said:

I basically want someone walking on a beach with the water moving and trees swaying. I've been thinking of animating textures on a simple backdrop rather than an HDRI, and working out how to hide the edges where they intersect ground models etc.

that you can do as a backdrop (under environment tab)

using free https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/texanimfords3 

about here https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/554116/texanim-2022-0414-animate-texture-maps-and-vdb-volumetrics

or paid 

https://www.daz3d.com/abas-animated-shaders-system

https://www.daz3d.com/animated-textures-script-pro-for-daz-studio-3-4the ground shadow in the environment can be adjusted to match with a sun node or you can in fact use a matching HDR but with backdrop enabled that renders instead 

jmucchiello

Have you tried something like this? https://www.daz3d.com/video-backgrounds--beach-01-and-02

dan2050

jmucchiello said:

Have you tried something like this? https://www.daz3d.com/video-backgrounds--beach-01-and-02

Definitely what I want to do, although I would like to use my own environment videos. Still, that would be a cool start.