VRAYHDRI Map visible in viewport?

[alexco]

Hello,

i´m a vray newbie and have a problem.

I use 3ds 9 an vray 1.5

I use a vrayhdri map for environment and as map for vray domelight.

Is there any possibility to make the environmental map visible in the vieports?
I try to use it as environment map for max too, but the hdr is only in the rendering.

But i need it visible to arange my model proper to the hdr.

I hope you understand my problem.

And yes i used the search function

Greets

[joconnell]

Map it into a sphere with a vray light material and turn it on in the viewports instead - you can use the light material multiplier the same way as your environment or domelight multiplier.

[alexco]

Thanks for your answer, this solution works.

Now I have to test ift the lighting wit the Light material is still the same as the domelight wit h the HDR Map.

[joconnell]

The dome light has a few tricks built in to it to make it cleaner and quicker than using the sphere method but as you say it's less easy to align.