HDRI - Learning the Joys.

1536 Views 7 Replies 4 Participants Last post by KanedA, May 17, 2005

CKemu

Discussion Starter · May 16, 2005 (Edited)

HDRI (High Dynamic Range Image) is an extremely usefull method of producing 'realistic' lighting and GI (Global Illumination) in 3D Studio Max R6 (or above), either with Mental Ray / Scanline / Brazil renderers.

Been teaching myself the basics of setting up a scene to use HDRI.

Rather good fun, and if your a 3D modeller looking for that extra sexy realism, then well worth learning.

A general simple explination of HDRI can be found here

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CKemu

Discussion Starter · #2 · May 17, 2005

HDRI + Namco font + Your Favourite Emulation site

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Mad

· #3 · May 17, 2005

Gonna show this to a friend who works with 3dmax 6....But dont know if he´ll ever use it. He mainly render buildings....
Looking great though.

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KanedA

· #4 · May 17, 2005

looks great... but that ground seems to be too ... 'flat'

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caipirinha

· #5 · May 17, 2005

HDR is great for buildings, at least a friend of mine uses HDR in buildings for many years now.

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CKemu

Discussion Starter · #6 · May 17, 2005

KanedA said:
looks great... but that ground seems to be too ... 'flat'

Yeah the ground is just a 'plane' with a jpg for a texture, gonna do a proper 'modelled' terrain later.

The HDRI out scene I am working on atm looks eerie with 'realism', esp when I put my 'Jessica' model into the scene, but she consists of 206,048 polys (clothing etc). Need to tweak the hair / skin shaders for her, but each frame takes 34 minutes to render, and doing the animation is a bytch with those 'per frame' render times.

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CKemu

Discussion Starter · #7 · May 17, 2005

Thanks to emuplanet for adjusting his VRviewer flash code to work for this (and other) projects.

Check out this:

http://www.ckemu.com/public/robo/vrviewer.html

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KanedA

· #8 · May 17, 2005

CKemu said:
Thanks to emuplanet for adjusting his VRviewer flash code to work for this (and other) projects.

Check out this:

http://www.ckemu.com/public/robo/vrviewer.html

cool

at first I thought that there are missing frames, but few moments ago everyghing worked fine :thumb:

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