operaguy opened this issue on Nov 05, 2007 · 143 posts
pjz99 posted Tue, 06 November 2007 at 9:47 AM
It's a mistake to consider IBL a "realistic" lighting technique. It can produce very interesting lighting - and if you adapt your lighting scheme to match the HDR image you're using, then it can appear realistic - but IBL will never match the lighting you simply create from scratch. It's an evolution of rendering against a bitmapped image imo, and is quite limiting.