HDRI or Create yourself

[Noyd]

Im working on a hotel and i want to show en rendering of the enviorment and the architecture. I thought i use a HDRI image. And with the renderings from inside the hotel do the same thing. But,
i havent found good way to make the building look natural in the HDRI enviorment, either its a scale problem (people on the HDRI looks like giants) or shadow probs. The hotel have lots of glas so the enviorment is important.

Is it better to create the enviorment from scratch? with billboards, and michas large texture trick?. You think i have more control by doing that?

[Micha_cg]

Re: HDRI or Create yourself

I thought i use a HDRI image. And with the renderings from inside the hotel do the same thing.

I placed planes with a photo in the background of the view through the windows. I have the feeling HDRIs will not work, because most they are shot from a very low ground hight like 1m and this will cause a strange look.

[Noyd]

Re: HDRI or Create yourself

Yes i agree, it looked wierd on my tests with HDRI. Ill do the pictureframe procedure instead, some photoshop and that would work. This is the biggest project i done, so lets se what happends

[jrharvey]

Re: HDRI or Create yourself

Not many people actually use the HDRI as the actual background. Its good to just give the glass "Affect Alpha" and just use photoshop or some photo editing software to place that background in. That is of course unless you are doing an animation.

[Micha_cg]

Re: HDRI or Create yourself

HDRI backgrounds are quite good for product renderings, cars or general objects. For example the DOSCH HighRes Carbackgrounds and HDRI are quite good. Image 38 and 39 of my gallery are full HDRI renderings with DOSCH HDRI, image 47 based on a highres JPG panorama.