Osprey Estate - Eaton Model

[flino2004]

the color of the house and roof is not very appealing to me and It looks like you have 2 light sources, you can see two shadows in different angles.....I personally don't like the trees blocking the house.

[glorybound]

I struggle with aligning my HDRI with my V-Ray Sun. This time it looks like I was off. I have never been able to successfully paste a sky in post without getting the dreadful white fringing, so I get my sky from my HDRI. Plus, the reflections and lighting, of course are handled by it as well.

[flino2004]

what I did in the past to match a vraysun with a HDRI is a simple math. - open in Photoshop.... see how many pixel are from the bottom to the center of the sun.(vertically) - The angle of the vraylight would be : S*180/H where S is the sun in pixels and H is the vertical number of pixels of the full image. because is half dome (180 degrees) is proportional to H and S is proportional to the angle of the light source.

if you open the HDRI and it has this black area on the bottom use 360 instead of 180

[glorybound]

Here is an update. I'll try your suggestion on the sun orientation, thanks!

[flino2004]

I like it.... the plants on the left side, the ones are against the wall look like they went thru the wall.

[glorybound]

Thanks! I am assuming the plants will change, so it'll get fixed along the way.5

[3LP]

I like you grass.
Still autograss? Or forest pack?

Stan

[glorybound]

I like you grass. Still autograss? Or forest pack? Stan

Yes. For simple grass, you can't beat it. However, that's all it does.

[glorybound]

I am not sure here. My sun's pixels, in PS, is 25.213. Is that the height, or the sun? How do I get the other one.

what I did in the past to match a vraysun with a HDRI is a simple math. - open in Photoshop.... see how many pixel are from the bottom to the center of the sun.(vertically) - The angle of the vraylight would be : S*180/H where S is the sun in pixels and H is the vertical number of pixels of the full image. because is half dome (180 degrees) is proportional to H and S is proportional to the angle of the light source.

if you open the HDRI and it has this black area on the bottom use 360 instead of 180

[glorybound]

Putting a sphere and moving it around using RT works nicely. Maybe not as scientific, but it worked. Once I get the sphere to cover the HDRI's sun, I can move my sun up that high. First, I point a camera to where I want the sun, then I rotate the HDRI to align. Once the HDRI is rotated, I then place the sphere and move the SUN up/down.

[flino2004]

is the sun height (S) ...make sure that pixel was taken from the botton

[flino2004]

what you are going to get is the azimuth...it should match the right angle of the HDRI

[glorybound]

Then, what is H?

is the sun height (S) ...make sure that pixel was taken from the botton

[flino2004]

it is the total amount of pixels of the image (vertically)

use 360 because of the black band on the bottom of the image

[glorybound]

Gotcha

25.213 = S


79.750 = H (no black bottom)




S*180/H


25.213*180/29.750 = 152.55 What is this number?