Hey Everyone,
This week’s part 3 of the 3-part series on rendering HDR panoramic images in 3dsMax or Vue 6 Infinite, and then bringing them back into 3d Studio Max. This week I’ll show you how to set up the lighting and background in order to make use of those HDRI files we created. It’s easy as pie!
There’s a free HDRI library out there with lots of high resolution images of studio lighting setups. HDRI images are 32-bit graphics that contain luminance information so it’s basically canned lighting setups! Note that these are huge HDRI images (~1000×5000) so they will bog down your computer. Just take it slow and give your computer time to work through it and things will speed up.
It’s free and it’s a torrent, so you’ll want to get a good torrent client if you don’t already have one. I recommend uTorrent; a small, smart little torrent client with lots of good features.
I’ll be seeding this thing for a few weeks, so you’ll always have a peer, but please help me out and keep seeding. It’s not like you’re going to get in trouble with this one. Learn how to use these images with my HDRI Setup Video Tutorial.
I’ve made a number of changes to this torrent that you should know about.
If you’re really worried about the EXE or are on a slow connection, You can download the original 230mb file here.
Hey Everyone,
In this Monday Movie we’ll be looking at how you can render panoramic HDR images in e-on software’s Vue 6 Infinite. It’s a great program for rendering natural landscapes and skies. A fantastic addition to any pipeline (though if you’re really crazy you can get their Ozone plugin for 3dsMax). Next week we’ll look at how to bring these 360-degree images back into 3dsMax for use as backgrounds and illumination maps.
Hey everyone,
In this block of 3 video tutorials, we’ll be looking at how to render and use panoramic, 360-degree images in 3d Studio Max. This week is part 1 where I cover how to render these “fish eye lens” images and save them out as high dynamic range images (HDR or HDRI). It’s pretty easy to do in mental ray- just apply the “Wrap Around (lume)” lens shader, and you’re done!
In part 2 we’ll cover how to render great backgrounds with e-on software’s vue. Finally, in part 3, I’ll show you how to bring those big renders back into 3dsMax and use them as image-based lighting.
“This study will describe you easy step by step how you can make your own hdri images, and use for your render to get a photorealistic look.”
“This tutorial has been written to serve Hyperfocal Design’s customers who are using their HDRI sky textures, but can be just as easily used for other HDRI environments. This tutorial attempts to cover every aspect of HDR rendering in Lightwave 8, but since radiosity and HDR support hasn’t changed much since 6.5, users of older versions should be fine. Provided that your HDRIs are of good quality, you should have a great end result for your background, lighting and reflections using HDRI after completing this tutorial.”
“This image is created for the CGArena challenge themed “Beautiful” and I won the second prize for this image. Thanks for all the sponsors and CGArena. The concept was to show a rough stone statue in a cold autumn environment. The statue represents a mother breast feeding and where the baby’s mouth touches the breast, the stone becomes warm flesh, showing love and humanity. I had my first baby 18 months ago and for me the image of his mother breast feeding was of an absolute beauty! I’m using Lightwave and Modo for all my modeling.”
This quickstart series contained the information and techniques that can’t be found anywhere else and an equal split between workflows came up with by Dave Cardwell and those invented by Wayne Robson. Quick start series all parts total running time is about 45 min. In the coming weeks more exclusive tutorials will be available for everyone for free viewing and download.
“One of the biggest inventions in the last few years in realistic lighting solutions is the appearance of HDRI images and lighting the scenes with them. If you have the collection of hdri images in on your computer, and these images are just the ones that you need, then you don’t have anything to worry about.”
“In this tutorial, we will illuminate an exterior architectural scene with help from Vray and a HDR image (High Dy’namic Range Image, or HDRI for short) from Hyperfocal Design.”
“In this tutorial, we will illuminate the scene with the help of one light source and one HDRI. This is a step by step tutorial, with images to grasp the general workflow idea easily.”
“Hello, my name is Michail Kalinich and I am very grateful to 3DTotal for the possibility to create a making of my work, Dream. The objective of this project was to create a picture of an old toy. I hope this work will interest a lot of people for whom this image may have reawakened their recollection of their teen years.”
“Hi everybody, we are Marco T’rr and Sebastian Skupch from Germany and we want to give you a short overview of our latest project “The Prometheus”. We are both students in Virtual Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern.”
“This image was based on the following idea: A carpenter wishes to give his son a gift and the only thing he knows for certain is that he wants the gift to be new. Finally he comes up with the idea of a wooden car.”
“I was looking for a character to do for my reel and so I started looking around on the Internet. Normally I have no idea what I want, so I just visit flickr or other photo sites to find good images.”