HDRI with Sky object ?

[ThirdEye]

1) make a sky object
2) make a new material, deactivate everything but the luminance channel, put the hdr map in the luminance channel
3) assign the material to the sky object, use the default mapping
4) render

[sebek27]

man you are fast !! thanks ! out of all the forums this one answers the quickest :applause:

[ThirdEye]

no problem dude ;)

[sebek27]

one more: everytime you use HDR you need to convert the HDR file so it makes it a converted HDR ??

[AdamT]

Originally posted by sebek27
one more: everytime you use HDR you need to convert the HDR file so it makes it a converted HDR ??
No, only if it's a probe--Cinema likes polar HDRIs.

[ThirdEye]

It depends. You can't use a spherical probe or a cross because it wouldn't have sense to map a sky (which is an infinite sphere) with a cross map or with another sphere. So you need a converted map to texture a sky object. If your maps are already in the latitude/longitude format you don't need to convert them at all, they're ready to be used onto a sky object.

[sebek27]

thanks !

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