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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,704

    That does appear to work! Interesting. I'm not sure why.... It is counter to my usual method of designing which is to do the characters first and then add the HDRI. But... I'm going to see if I can merge the other scene together now.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,218

    I have just bought these and tried the one @Serene Night is using. I loaded it first from the thumbnail and then loaded it into the Environment Dome using my own settings. It shows up in the Aux Viewport set to Iray and renders fine. I will have a render in a few minutes to post.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,704

    I want to thank you all for your persistance in helping me with my HDRI problems. Now that I know they must be loaded prior to adding characters in order for me to see them, I'm good with that.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,218
    edited December 2017

    Here is the render. While I was at it I tried the free elves billboards but they aren't right, I changed them to Iray with the Iray Uber script, so I will have to go back and see what the problem is with them :) It will have to wait though as I am also running a render in 4.9 in the background, this was in 4.10 Beta.

    2017-12-19 17:24:45.667 Total Rendering Time: 21 minutes 54.45 seconds

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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,704

    Aww. thats cute!

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,218
    edited December 2017

    Found out that the light from the HDRI was too intense so I lowered the Environment Intensity and the Environment Map intensity which has helped.

    The first image was 0.30 and 1.00 and the second one 0.20 and 0.90 respectively.

    2017-12-19 18:13:46.834 Total Rendering Time: 16 minutes 19.74 seconds

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    2017-12-19 18:47:37.375 Total Rendering Time: 14 minutes 26.75 seconds

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    hdri-elves-billboard-test-003.jpg
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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,846

    That snow HDRI looks pretty sweet, will have to check that out.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,218
    edited December 2017

    Look what this grew into :)

    2017-12-21 06:19:17.010 Total Rendering Time: 17 hours 53 minutes 14.21 seconds

    Happy Snowman

    Click on image for animation.

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  • hunter_kieferhunter_kiefer Posts: 6

    To place on floor, have you tried Edit>Figure>Move To Floor or Ctrl+D?

    Not sure if that was what you were looking for?

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,704

    Yeah but it doesn’t always work with some hdri.

  • sinclair619sinclair619 Posts: 0

    barbult said:

    RE character floating above gound: You may need to change the Ground Position Mode from Auto to Manual. When it is Auto, the lowest thing in your scene will be placed at the HDRI ground level. So, if you want your character sitting on the ground, and his buttocks are not flat, you will ned to use Manual and then you can move him to the level you want.

    This worked for me. Thank you.

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