Re: Office Lighting.. HDRI, or... 2005-04-12 - By Andrew
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Does the new Photoshop export HDRI in the same format that Carrara uses?
AWBenson
--- In Carrara@(protected), Andrew Turner <turner410@(protected)> wrote:
> Hi Holly -
>
> Well, first, they're different because HDRI isn't going to produce hard
> shadows if you need them, so it doesn't exactly -replace- lights.
>
> That said, I'm thinking for the office environment, it would be nice
> for example if you could create your office lighting space and render
> it with a spherical camera.
>
> Now that Photoshop will be able to create HDRI images, it's sort of a
> moot point as long as we can export an appropriate series of images.
>
> For that matter, some software (Strata, Poser) uses image-based
> lighting which probably doesn't do away with HDRI but satisfies the
> need to a large degree; I'd be happy if Carrara could do the same.
> Carrara is -really- fast when it comes to realistic lighting results!
>
>
> Andrew
>
> On Apr 9, 2005, at 8:03 AM, hdaggers2000 wrote:
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> >
> > It occures to me...:
> >
> > Would you actually save time rendering from an exported HDRI, as
> > opposed to just using
> > the scene/lights that made it? I guess.... In some cases it would be
> > like "baking" the
> > background if the scene was incredibly complex and had a lot of
> > objects.... HDRI is for
> > photorealism. So far the "real skies" which supposedly engage the
HDRI
> > bit-depth don't
> > seem all that photoreal to me. They are nice, but an hdri of an
actual
> > sky is much more
> > realistic....
> >
> > I can imagine a work flow where we can use a photo-hdri in Carrara
> > scenes, and then
> > export a new HDRI. As a work around, maybe someone could post a
> > tutorial on how to
> > export the 10 (or so?) images at different "exposures" to be
> > recompiled in HDRIshop, etc....
> > Is that even possible from Carrara? Do we have an F-stop?
> >
> > holly
> >
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> >
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