On the other hand, for me, the Intensity settings go WAY down.... sometimes as far as .5, depending on the IBL image used.

Oh, I agree absolutely. That intensity slider is really almost too powerful, lol. I would say most HDRI's I use will have an Intensity value of 5 or less.

Sorry, AS, I will have to agree to disagree on this point.  *

• Not really disagreeing. Yes, on a value Quality value of 16, the "banding" is more noticeable, I just always mention that HDRI users (especially first time users), go with 16 as it will be faster when they are setting up their scene. No reason for test renders to take 5 times longer, as they can when the Quality setting is at the default of 256 versus using 16.

But, yeah as you would make a final render, a user might want to increase that Quality to change the shadows. Of course render times go up, but with all things 3D, its usually a tradeoff, lol.  ;o)

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