HDRI + Sun?

Greetings,

I may be going at this in the wrong way so I am asking for some guidance.

I have been rendering a fairly big and detailed model.

Stilll working on grass and street textures but I am wondering about the buildings.

I love the way they look as lit by HDRI but the shadows are all sort top down, I want to get some time of day shadows.

I have had success baking tow images, one HDRI, one with sun, then comping them together.

Is there a better way to do this?

thanks to all,

Patrick

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Alan Krupp on October 27, 2010 at 7:37am

Rich:

Need to borrow my lawn mower? I like the previous version a bit better and I'll bet the last one takes a eternity to render!

I've attached another way to go with a plug-in called fur. Try it out and see what you think.
I've just messed around with this, nothing serious.

If I didn't upload the file right...you can get it at the "Ruby Library Depot" web site.

Chris

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fur_en_v14e.zip, 26 KB

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Permalink Reply by Richcat on October 27, 2010 at 8:31am

Hi Chris

Yes please I definitely need one :-) a bit to deep and clumpy, I'll have to try some more settings to get a more manicured lawn.- with some nice stripes

Thanks for heads up on the fur plugin, I'll have to give it a go.

If you want to know more info on images , but this only applies to jpgs you can Query the jpg, in IRendernXt in the Image window, thats if it hasn't been photoshopped or changed etc, and that can give you lots of info on settings, time etc
For some reason that's not happening with the new forum even though I upload as straight IRender jpg. It must change the image, and strip out info.

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