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  • Rich Hart August 24, 2011 at 12:17pm

    We added a button on our HDRi option dialog to make it easier to import these 360 panoramic images as the current HDRi Sky.

    The new version, KH24, with this feature can be downloaded at this link:

    http://www.renderplus.com/php/download_links.php

  • Render Plus August 16, 2011 at 6:13pm

    It is difficult to include images in posts using iE 9.

     

    Here is your image:

     

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  • Paul Davis August 16, 2011 at 5:58pm
    Here is a building I'm working on that I am using the HDRI created from an image. I tried posting the image to this discussion but it was not working. The image converted great and I am very pleased with the quality. You will have to excuse the unfinished build but it still has a long way to go. I will upload the final rendering with the hdri when I am done. Thanks for all the comments they were a lot of help.
  • Rich Hart August 16, 2011 at 10:57am

    I put a Chrome sphere next to Nancy, and made her stand on a plank:

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    Al Hart said:

    I would be interesting to turn off the ground plane, and place a reflective sphere in your model just to see if there are problems with reflections which look up (say on a vehicle) and what appears as you look down - although that would usually be obliterated by the ground plane.
  • akinlolu olugboji August 16, 2011 at 8:55am

    Here are ones converted with AutoCad Nxt for test. the 360 image file and the conversions for both night and day.

     

    Rendering result.

     

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    day.hdr

    night.hdr

  • Render Plus August 16, 2011 at 7:57am
    I would be interesting to turn off the ground plane, and place a reflective sphere in your model just to see if there are problems with reflections which look up (say on a vehicle) and what appears as you look down - although that would usually be obliterated by the ground plane.
  • Rich Hart August 16, 2011 at 3:36am

    Attached is a 360 panorama jpeg photograph that I took at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, fairly low resolution 2252 x 1261 pixels.

    I used the "Convert Image to HDRi Background" button on the Background tab to convert the jpg to an HDRi file.

    I then used that as an HDRi background, not a planar background, for a simple rendering of Nancy and a brick box. Here's the result:

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    I then rotated the HDRi 220 degrees so that you could see part of the bridge, and I get this result:

    2506649368?profile=originalSo the Create HDRi process does work. You just need to get high resolution 360 panoramas that you can use.

     

    SanFran_2.jpg

  • akinlolu olugboji August 15, 2011 at 3:49am
    Unless am mistaking, the issues have an image file (jpeg, png tiff etc) and converting to *.hdr format. Now what I need clarifying is, do we have a 360 degrees image?
  • Render Plus August 15, 2011 at 2:11am

    See this article by keith bruns for information on how to create your own HDRi images using a "light probe" and a camera to get a full 360 panoramic image.

     

    http://www.unparent.com/photos_probes.html

    (Click on "so, what is HDR?")

     

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  • akinlolu olugboji August 15, 2011 at 1:35am
    No would give it a try if you could just point to where I can get one.
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