Well looking at a lot of realistic 3D renders, they all state that they are using HDRI lighting in their render. I thought I'd give it a shot and I'm amazed at how real this looks.. The reflections, the lighting, the shadowing..wow!
For those of you who do not know what HDRI is...
[quote name='Google']High Dynamic Range Image
A 2D image stored in a file format with a greater range of luminance values than a standard bitmap image. HDR images are often used as environment maps in image-based lighting techniques to create subtle, real-world lighting effects.[/quote]
Well there ya go..now ya know what it is. Here it is:
[img]http://www.killanet.net/uploads/Realistic_Lighting.jpg[/img]
Render Time: 2 Minutes
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0.o that looks really neat, must have taken a while to render though /blum.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />
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It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.
If I'd live in another time or place...
...my story might have had a very different ending.
HDRI
<r>Well time for my 2 cents.
A hdri render won't take very long as a standard radiosity render. This is if you set your settings correct. I use the following settings to get these results.
Strength : 250%
Accuracy : 70%
Diffuse : 1
Samples : 100
min : 20
mx : 200
and here's the result.To get faster renders you can decrease the strengt to 30 %.
The diffuse depth is on 1 here but you can place it on 3 as well.
Several good HDRI tutorials are these
http://www.splutterfish.com/sf/contrib/tut...ents/index.html
http://hdri.3dweave.com/
http://www.rain.org/~msavard/hdri/Articles/UsingHDRIs.html
and off course
http://www.google.com <img src='http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... igwink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /></r>
A hdri render won't take very long as a standard radiosity render. This is if you set your settings correct. I use the following settings to get these results.
Strength : 250%
Accuracy : 70%
Diffuse : 1
Samples : 100
min : 20
mx : 200
and here's the result.To get faster renders you can decrease the strengt to 30 %.
The diffuse depth is on 1 here but you can place it on 3 as well.
Several good HDRI tutorials are these
http://www.splutterfish.com/sf/contrib/tut...ents/index.html
http://hdri.3dweave.com/
http://www.rain.org/~msavard/hdri/Articles/UsingHDRIs.html
and off course
http://www.google.com <img src='http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... igwink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /></r>
Last edited by Tibs on Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:44 am, edited 1 time in total.
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