I have a nice cloud HDRI as spherical. However when looking from up high down the lower area of the image is seen leaving a black horizon. I tried cropping placement. Also tried editing it in Photoshop with clone stamp but it does not look nice. How can a get a spherical half hdri image so that it lowers to the horizon? thanks!
photoshop: free transform in wrap mode.
what does wrap mode do? thanks but the image is a spherical. moving it down would leave black at top but maybe that would be ok. So not to adjust in vray/3dsmax?
stretching the middle downwards. not moving.
It would be nice to be able do this is 3d. For example, a camera 360 of a car exterior where the camera changes height, you may want to slightly animate the horizon line to hit character lines of the car.
put it on the sphere than.
Why have a dome light at all then? Itd be nice to have the functionality of a dome light, but have an offset for the map in height as well as rotation.
so not warp but offset?
crop/place in vrayHDRI.
Vray HDRI > Enable Crop > Height = 0.99 or lower = lowers your horizon. Just tested this, seems to work and hdri looks just as good with no seams (or I haven’t found any). Of course your lighting’s going to change too as you’re placing it lower.