Before you even think of asking: Yes, this uses the Blender Internal Renderer – and it’s a lot simpler than you think!
HDR (High Dynamic Range) is a image format that stores data about lighting and can hence be used to light a scene in blender. In fact, you don’t even need a single lamp!
Find out how you can stun yourself with realism by watching the tutorial!
Find out:
- how to use HDR lighting with the Blender Internal Renderer
- where to get HDR images
- how to set up HDR lighting without any lamps
- the meaning of life
Blender Version: 2.56
Result:
Resources:
HDR images and HDR time-lapses: http://www.openfootage.net/?cat=15
Just a few more: http://www.hdrmill.com/Freebies.htm
A useful thread with lots of links: http://www.3dm3.com/forum/f123/free-hdri-images-5982/
A nice collection of 58 HDR images (not tested): http://www.cgindia.org/2006/06/download-58-free-hdri.html
nice
You must be psychic. I have been looking into using HDR lighting for the mug I made (link below). I didn't think to use environment lighting with it. Great idea. I will definitely look into that if I do a scene rather than just the object which I consider finished now and won't be tweaking again. Thanks again for this.
Andy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oiyou/5403866251/
Haha awesome... HDR is so simple, but brilliant
As always - Thx for that ...
Pleasure :)
Oh lord. I cant believe I didnt know this yet.
Thanks very much for the info.
Haha yeah thats what i thought too...
Excellent.
Thank you very much! GREAT tutorial.
Hello there nerds,
the hdr tut was fantastic, i am re learning blender, i was very familair with 2.49, now i cant use 2.5, because the interface changed so much!
I couldnt work out stuff like this(which i can do in 2.49 easily), so thanks, this is the stuff i think you could do for your tutorials maybe, all the standard and even not so standard stuff from 2.49, and how to do in 2.5, hope that makes sense.
keep up the great tuts. (the game engine had me perplexed due to the interface change, took ages to work out all that!)
In addition to the last post, what i mean is how to transition to 2.5 blender?
I think there is a whole missing area of knowledge there.
thanks guys.
My pleasure :)
Yep, we do want to make a series of tuts for the transition, I think a lot of people have asked - the only problem I have is that I wasn't very good with 2.49 so theres a lot I couldn't tell you
Sup Greg! This tut is your best yet, getting lots of fine coverage all over. I was aware of this feature, but never tested it out. And there is no way I would have thought to adjust the brightness and contrast to achieve the desired result...brilliant!
Thank you very much Mr White :)
Greg,
Thanks for taking your time out to help the community, we all truly appreciate it. One thing I'd like to see is a more in depth tutorial series on the modifiers. Some I use all the time, like subsurf of course. But others I've never touched, nor seen any tutorials on. I've not went in search of them either, but I've just never seen anyone dedicate a series of tuts to learning the modifiers. In paticular, I have no idea how to use the following:
Build
Mask
UV Project
Cast
Hook
Mesh Deform
Simple Deform
Smooth
Thanks again!
Thanks for that Neil! We will definitly be covering the modifiers in tuts to come
thx , very nice tutorial
i think this site will be one
of famous tutorials sites
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Haha I hope so :)
HDRI with raytraced ambient occlusion is sadly a very slow process.
Fortunately 2.5 is much faster with Raytracing then 2.4.
However color bleeding etc still is skiped.
The render branch offers some nice additions and also indirect light in 2.5.
However again all miss other functions ... darn ...
Thanx mate ,, simple but brilliant
keep it coming plz
I'm sorry to put a break on all the positive comments, but I can't seem to get this to work. When I render (16 sample EL), all I get is a group of dots around the border of the cube in an otherwise black screen.
The HDR was applied to the sky and every other option was checked... does the ground plane settings matter?
Maybe try a different image?
I did, no luck.
Ok, this may seem a bit presumptuous of me, but I really wanna get this rolling, so, here's a link to the blend file.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sua67qgipa7zkjc
Thats very odd - I opened your blend file and rendered it without changing anything, and it worked perfectly fine (result: http://goo.gl/Wb2Kb )
Thanks a lot, Greg. Turns out it was a blender version problem. Incompatible addon or something. Works fine with the trunk.
awesome, glad I could help
You were wanting some suggestions for tutorials: How about a good tutorial on using Freestyle or NPR in Blender? Especially for creating a sketchy look.
Great simple and clear tutorial on HDR.
what computer do you have greg?
i have a core 2 duo with 2x2.23
what computer do you have greg?
have a core 2 duo with 2x2.23 but a 1gb nvidia gt 240M graphics card
its similar - core 2 duo with 2.66 - 1 gb nvidia geforce 8600
Got many things from that tutorial :) especially about environment lighting.
Mind to share the software that shows the Key pressed?
That's what we're here for :)
We use a software called Camtasia for our recordings. I think its the best since it captures mouse movement and key presses too
My attempt. It took one night to render this.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56626305@N05/5539221571/
Nice! I can see why it took so long
PS: Please don't put 'first' or anything on your comments, they will be deleted
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Do you still do these tutorials? If, so do you have one for that metallic cube you created?
Ofcourse we still do these tutorials! We try do a few every week, but sadly I was away this past week. But I get next week off so I'll be doing a lot of tutorials :)
Also, could you tell me how you created that curved surface to place your objects and I having the darnest time trying to figure it out the good way because I am sure it is not hard
Nevermind I figured it out by some googling. Creating a Bezier Curve, rotating and scaling vertices, and extruding it. However, mine does not come out as nice as yours. Also, when I apply an material to an cube or object like glass or metal is really doesnt look like either just some colored object any tutorials you have about this?
I recently made a basic materials tutorial that will definitely help you (look for the orange monkey). As for the curved floor, its just got a subdivision surface modifier on to make it curved
More detail on the floor - its a plane, then i extruded one edge up a bit, and then added the modifier. viola, nice smooth floor
Great tut.
So much to learn :D
Tutorials on bones, applying them to models and weight painting.
Useful tutorial! Another source for HDR images: www.hdrlabs.com and specifially the section about smart Image Based Lighting www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/ is interesting, with lots of sIBL files (HDR collections) for free.
Thanks, Greg. I downloaded this and watch it from time to time, when I need a hdr reference. :-)
It's quick and informative!
hey Greg...very nice tutorial...
as for the tutorial sugestions...it would be awsome to see(been looking everywhere) for some volumetric lighting of text...the only good tutorial i have found is at blender diplom.... it is very vague to say the least....
as a newbie...i think i speak for alot of NEW blender users when i say title intros and stuff are cool and mostly what draws us to 3d to begin with...it would be cool to see some tutorials on lighting from behind...and maybe how they(pros) do the glare across the front of the text in title intros...
sincerely,
Mitch
Hey Mitch,
Title sequences are very unique and I don't quite understand what you're referring to. Could you show an example?
I'll look into glare effects sometime soon, but for now you might like to take a look at tutorials like this one
Thx Greg, this really pushed up the realism of my renders. I didn't even know you could do that in Blender :)
cheers!
P.
HDR Lighting is AWESOME!! Thank you for the tut !
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nice, but you are shown that cool image with that orangy light effect, that was the only interesting thing to me(for now), and then that effect is not even in this tutorial :(
I love the narration of this tutorial.
Hi Greg,
Wonder if you still check the comments...why the left cube has big grain, while the right one look perfectly smooth? I have tried, it seems like when the lighting is dim, the object is in big grain.
And another question, for hdr, the concept is using environment lighting, and there is a option beside 'image or movie' - 'environment mapping', why don't you use this? And I cannot figure out how to load hdr files if choosing 'environment lighting'.