Environment/HDR Lighting in Cycles – Blender Tutorial


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This tutorial is old! Watch the new version here: http://youtu.be/_4IN4V1SM-A

Learn how to use environment lighting using the Cycles render engine. Also, learn how to make your own HDR maps using an old Christmas decoration.

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27 responses to “Environment/HDR Lighting in Cycles – Blender Tutorial”

  1. It sounds like you swallowed the microphone and we can hear every tongue click and throat gargle as your meaty tonsils smack around inside your mouth. No offence, just saying.    PS, tutorial wasn't bad.

  2. Thanks for the great tutorial! =)
    Don't know why HDR Shop is sooooo expensive??!! $199??? Maybe you are using
    an earlier free version?
    I'm using Dynamic Photo HDR…..$59……works great!

  3. Hi there, I'm totally new in HDR images. Do you know a free program that does the same stuff as HDRshop ? I can't afford to buy such program and I'd like you use one that does the same effects, especially to create environment textures

  4. It's probably because you haven't set up a proper texture map (i.e. the black and white textures) of those images.Create them with Gimp, with two levels one of which transparent, as you can see in the tutorial entitled "rendering a makehuman character with cycles render engine" by blender3dmaster, that is almost as good as blendernerd tutorials (but blendernerd rocks!).
    I had that problems too but i solved it thanks to youtube great guys.
    It' quite different from luxrender and blender render.

  5. For some reason my belnder is having hard time showing textures. No matter what external textures I try to use with cycles (or w/o cycles) they just show up completely black, and this is getting really irritating. I've looked around on the net and couldn't find anything on the subject. Viewport backgrounds work just fine, and the images are showing up correctly in the image editor, but the moment I try to use them as background/texture they render full black. Any tips what could be the problem?

  6. Hi BlenderNerd, thanks for the high quality tutorials. You're doing great.
    I need to make the environment image invisible to the camera but still casting light and reflections ? how would you do that ?

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