Re: Office Lighting.. HDRI, or... 2005-04-12 - By Andrew Turner
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I sure hope so- Guess we'll find out in May!!
Andrew
On Apr 12, 2005, at 9:17 AM, Andrew wrote:
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> Does the new Photoshop export HDRI in the same format that Carrara
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> AWBenson
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> --- In Carrara@(protected), Andrew Turner <turner410@(protected)> wrote:
>> Hi Holly -
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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!
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>> Andrew
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>> On Apr 9, 2005, at 8:03 AM, hdaggers2000 wrote:
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>>> It occures to me...:
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>>> 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....
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>>> 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?
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>>> holly
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