Image based lighting without GI and no light

[jstrob]

Hi,

I thought that to get image based lighting from an hdri, I had to put the hdri in the GI environment slot or in a skylight AND use GI.

But it seems that when i have no light in my scene, I just put the hdri in the reflection slot and I am getting IBL without GI activated.... But as soon as i want to add a light, everything goes black except what's lighten by this light...

Also very strange when I was trying to do the same thing with my lowest render settings to get a preview, everything was black...

Is this some kind of cheat to get image based ligthting?

[vlado]

You are probably just getting the default lighting. It might be that your HDR image is too dark - try increasing its intensity.

Another way to do IBL is to use a VRayLight in "Dome" mode with the HDR image as texture for the light.

Best regards,
Vlado