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How Can I Reduce the Sun Spot Brightness in an HDRI Without Lowering Light Strength?

jermoronojermorono Posts: 2
in Daz Studio Discussion

Hello,

I recently started using sky-only HDRIs in my scenes and noticed that, with the default settings, the sun spot is so bright that it emits a pure white light near the sun.
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If I reduce the environment intensity/map, I can fix this "issue", but how can I adjust it without reducing the overall lighting strength?
I basically want to use this as my dome while maintaining the same light intensity as the default settings.

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I am using this HDRI and loaded it with the default environment settings:
https://polyhaven.com/a/autumn_field_puresky

Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,270

    Try reducing, or zeroing, the Burn Highlights value so that it doesn't turn everything near-white to white. You could also try reducing exposure or gamma, or reduce one and increase the other to try to get a balance. All require a Tonemapper Options dialogue, created after doping an Iray render or explicitly from the Create menu.

  • jermoronojermorono Posts: 2

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Try reducing, or zeroing, the Burn Highlights value so that it doesn't turn everything near-white to white. You could also try reducing exposure or gamma, or reduce one and increase the other to try to get a balance. All require a Tonemapper Options dialogue, created after doping an Iray render or explicitly from the Create menu.

    Thank you for the help!
    Reducing the burning highlights value solved the issue I was having.
     

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