[rivoli]

and it will behave as one.

I don't know, I guess that if used as source of light/reflections in rendering would give the exact same result in a ldr format. unless, I guess, you crank up its current range well above 1.0.

[mverta]

No it will give different results, depending on how wide an HDR curve you define for it, given the input files. The assembler has no idea that you faked it.

_Mike

[w i l l]

How do you turn this flat image in this tutorial into the lat/long format for use in Maxwell?

http://backingwinds.blogspot.com/2006/1 ... mages.html

[rivoli]

well, you can't. debevec's light probes, for example, are full 360 degrees panoramas (while the one in that tut is not), so you can transform them in lat/long format and have them remapped correctly as environment.
when you use a hdri as environment (both for illumination and reflections), you want it to actually represent all the surrounding environment of your scene.

[w i l l]

Yeah i know... so what's the hdri in that tutorial used for if it doesn't represent a full surrounding? Or are they just demonstrating with one view for simplicity.