Nighttime Skies -- Hyperfocal

Nighttime Skies -- Hyperfocal#240582

By lebbeus - Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:26 am

- Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:26 am #240582

in case you haven't seen this yet:

Hyperfocal has come out with a nighttime skies collection (with 2 HRDI moons)

http://hyperfocal.vismasters.com/catalo ... oduct=4462

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By misterasset - Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:08 am

- Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:08 am #240585

I saw that. Has anybody tried it yet?

On a side note, why can't I get sharp shadows with an HDRI in Maxwell?

dual opterons 2.8ghz, 3gigs ram, 3ds max 7

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By NoahPhense - Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:28 am

- Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:28 am #240587

That's a bad site for me to go to.. could spend $$ ..

- np

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By iandavis - Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:33 am

- Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:33 am #240783

regarding sharpness.

good question. The theory of sharp shadow is that the light is parallel, so with HDRI you would need to make the lightsource very small and only one primary light and the rest would be more uniform to fill the shadows. If the built in HDRI Illumination doesn't work, mapping it to a primitive sphere and making that sphere REALLY big should do the trick.

post something if you mess with this? It would be a cool experiment.

If we had just one lowly SuperStarDestroyer, all of earth's problems would rapidly become rather trite. I mean, who worries about war in the middle east when a 1.5km death triangle is in orbit.