[Eric Lagman]

I feel dumb asking this, but I have had this problem forever using studio, now I am having it in cinema. I looked everywhere before asking so any help on this would be huge. Is there a way to make my sky hdri/mxi scale down so that it seems farther away without having it tile? Many of the hdri's convertet to mxi are way too big as backgrounds when I try to use them to illuminate my scene. I must be missing something really simple. Does the size of my original image have anything to do with it? Anyone?

[Maya69]

I think your probleme is the lens focal

Hdri map use focal beetwwen 17 and 35 mn

try this value for camera

[tom]

Hi Eric,

Any spherical panorama is virtually at infinite distance. You should avoid any kind of tiling and your map aspect should be 2:1. In this case, your map looks correct and it's a full spherical environment map.

Regarding the size illusion, you need to set a proper focal length for your camera. You can easily preview this in realtime by following the steps below.

1-Open your scene in Studio.
2-Load your HDR as environment in all channels (even only bkg is enough).
3-Set viewport to camera view.
4-Press "K" in viewport and preview your environment.
5-Adjust camera focal length.

Best regards,
tom

[Eric Lagman]

Yikes. If I took the camera focal down to 10 it started to look normal. Still when I aligned my scene floor plane with the floor plane in the HDRI the hdri was too big and not to scale with the object in my scene. Maybe I need to find myself some hdri's that are not taken with such an extreme focal length if this is the problem.