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Carrara F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Nov 05 6:06 am)
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I DL-ed the latest Terragen beta v0.9 for mac and the free HDRI plugin for it. It saves images to .hdr files so I saw a oppertunity to look at this feature. I rendered the image 1024 x768 and the image was so blurred and zoomed at that camera angle.
I don't know much about HDRI, but I thought that the background should be visable and not only work for reflections.
Should the resolution be very high? Like to know before I test render.
Snekkis
I've seen HDR maps like that look fine when reflected off of rendered objects because the reflections typically appear as small highlights on curved surfaces.
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You can use an HDRI for both background and lighting, but for background it will need to be much higher res than 1024x768- since it is being stretched all the way around your scene. . . your camera is only seeing a small portion of the image. For lighting the image size is much less critical, unless you are rendering a big mirrored ball. ;-) Markd
I forgot to mention that the HDR map is not meant to be viewed as a background in a rendered scene. It is for lighting your models. You can throw in a non-stretched corner of the HDR as a backdrop though to tease the viewer a little.
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The options keep increasing! Good info aydoejiosokoya. FYI, for using Photomtix Basic for images without EXIF camera information,.hdr map images will not give off the lumens you might expect (for example, maps created using the spherical camera in Carrara). However, increasing the intensity of the map by sliding the Carrara HDRI map controller to 800-1,000 will produce the effect more typical of HDRI images created with EXIF information. Mark
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Hi guys, on carrara yahoo group someone have posted this link to a free app to create HDRI images. I'm currently downloading it and i don't know if it's good or not, but is free and available for both MAC and PC... -TOXE