Environment backgrounds for Arch Vis

[stevesideas]

Hi Guys,

Im currently working on a visual that has interior and exterior shots. Both require an exterior environment that looks good. I was hoping for a mountainous background that didnt just look like a cardboard cutout texturemap on a cylinder. Maybe textures with varying alphas for the mountains so they blend with the vray sky.

Just dont know where to get get them...any ideas ?

Unless of course you suggest building the whole background scene in 3dsmax. Its only 1 house and its not being camera matched either. I wanted the scene in an open space..in the mountains.

[Olli96]

Do it you post production program of your choice. This way you can easily color correct the background image and sky to match the lighting condition of the rendering. Using google images you should be able to find some high res mountain images or take a look at texture sites like cgtextures.com, mayang, google... (http://images.google.de/images?q=mou...a=N&imgsz=huge)
here is a nice video tutorial about sky replacement in ae: http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=12 - you can use the same technique for your mountains in ps or any other compositing application.

[stevesideas]

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html?id=12 -

What a great site. Cheers.

[mcvltd]

Try this one..... http://www.hdrmill.com/