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HDRI problems
I’m trying to light a sports stadium using HDRI. My camera is situated in the bowl of the stadium. I can’t seem to get direct sunlight in my shot. The HDRI image shows a sun and seems to be bright but when I render it out, it looks like my model is in the shadows. I try to turn my sky object around but it doesn’t seem to change anything. I know it’s working because I can see the color values lighting the scene, I’m just not getting bright light. When I try to set the luminance channel to 200% etc., it doesn’t seem to do anything.
Anyone know what I’m doing wrong? Am I expecting too much from HDRI? Is this an impossible question to answer because you don’t know what my HDRI looks like? Thanks.
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3 Replies
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Do you have Global Illumination turned on in Render>Effects?
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Yes.
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I think I’ve figured out my problem; linear workflow is screwing me up in v12 but I’m starting to get a handle on it. Some of my settings (color/project etc.) weren’t set to linear. As soon as I got everything pointed in the linear direction, it started to pop.
Also, I was using an hdri image that was 3000 pixels wide. I bought a hdri image that was 7000 pixels wide and that made a difference as well, but the linear thing is what was really holding me back.
If anyone has any other ideas; I’d like to hear them but I think I’m on the right track now.
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