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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      Hmm... That's and odd HDRI sky. Why isn't the horizon flat?
      Do you know what kind of format this HDR are supposed to be?

      I tried with spherical mapping. But it just came out odd. The first two have Verical Repeat of 3. The last two 1.

      (Why doesn't the multiple upload work?)


      Render01.png


      Render02.png


      Render03.png


      Render04.png

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      • soloS Offline
        solo
        last edited by

        Great, I did something that I would normally not do so the result is as expected, I have another one that was done the standard way attached, the horizon should be fine now.

        Could you post a quick walkthrough as to your setup? I need to know how to create hdr image renders in Vray sometime.


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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          That still doesn't look like an environment image. It needs to be covering 360 degrees. Spherical, cube cross format for instance.

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          • soloS Offline
            solo
            last edited by

            Okay, then if I render the sky as a spherical 360 panarama and save as hdr it may work, lemme give that a go

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              My setup: With default physical camera settings:

              • Load the HDR image into the GI and Background maps
              • Set the mapping to Environment
              • Set Multiplier to 50 (Depending on the HDR, usually somewhere between 20-50. GI and Background often have slight different values.)
              • Adjust the Horizontal Rotation to orient the HDR sky as I want.

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              • soloS Offline
                solo
                last edited by

                @unknownuser said:

                Adjust the Horizontal Rotation to orient the HDR sky as I want.

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                • soloS Offline
                  solo
                  last edited by

                  This one should be perfect.


                  solotest2.zip

                  http://www.solos-art.com

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                  • soloS Offline
                    solo
                    last edited by

                    @unknownuser said:

                    Set Multiplier to 50

                    Which one?

                    The global one or the image/texture editor one?

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                      thomthom
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                      @solo said:

                      @unknownuser said:

                      Set Multiplier to 50

                      Which one?

                      The global one or the image/texture editor one?

                      The one in the Texture Editor.

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        Looking more into this, there seems to be a bug.

                        When you add a bitmap to the reflection slot in a V-Ray material, the bitmap is not used and you get instead a 100% even reflection.
                        So far, the only way I've managed to work around it has been by applying the bitmap to the Fresnel slot in a Fresnel map, setting the IOR very high.

                        All other map types seem to work, but VfSU (1.05.30) doesn't seem to use Bitmaps for reflection map type. Odd that it works by adding a bitmap inside a Fresnel, but not adding a bitmap into a Blend map.

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                          thomthom
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                          Solo; just read thsi in the Vue manual:

                          @unknownuser said:

                          Panoramic View
                          Real panoramic cameras are fixed to a handle that you have to hold when you take the shot. As it
                          takes the shot, the camera rotates around the handle, thus embracing any required angle of view.
                          Panoramic views can yield beautiful results.
                          This option is a numerical equivalent to the real panoramic camera. Here also, the camera is rotated
                          as the render engine makes progress. All-around panoramas can be achieved this way, but
                          beware: if the camera is not perfectly horizontal when you take the shot, the horizon will undulate.
                          This is not a numerical artifact: it happens also in the real world!
                          When you select this option, the panoramic
                          H Angle slider becomes available, letting
                          you decide on the horizontal angle swept by
                          the camera as it rotates.

                          This appear to be what happened to your VUE environments.

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