HDRI questions

Hi guys!
This it’s my experiment using HDRI.
What I try to achieve it’s to replace all the lights in the scene,and render with an exterior HDRI image, for background and skylight.I use for that an interior scene
(not that one) and I was not happy with the result..
This one it’s with and without physical camera, and as you can see, the results are
similar, regarding colors,lightning and shadows.
The HDRI is spherical map with Resolution: 6248 x 3124 pixel. I have the light probe version too, but I didn’t use that one in the scene.
My question is: Is any way to use HDRI but still to receive those nice shadows from the
sun? If I turn on default lights in global switches, what’s going to happen’ with my
scene, with this nice ambient created by the HDRI file?

Regards,
Stefan


Re: HDRI questions

OK…Sorry for the stupid question…I just make another test, and just hit me…since I overwrite the sun with the HDRI file, only information about light is in that file…so do not use HDRI to lighten an interior scene,but I believe most of you already knows that…