RE: Is it possible to use an image to illuminate a scene?

2011-01-18 Thread jas
Yes, works fine with animation. It just projects the image as an illumination map. It is not as accurate as hdri, but for example if you use a photo of a sky as your map you will of course get the blue hue illumination. However you will have to control it's colour and illumination intensity

Re: Is it possible to use an image to illuminate a scene?

2011-01-17 Thread tijai
Hello Jean, i remember ... some time ago... there was a HDRI plugin for Realsoft3d from realsoft news: *HDRI image import plugin released* Henrik Nyqvist has written a plugin which reads HDRI images into Realsoft 3D. He kindly made the plugin available to the user community free of charge.

RE: Is it possible to use an image to illuminate a scene?

2011-01-17 Thread Arjo Rozendaal
Hi Jean, Lighting a scene with an HDRI will be very hard in RS. As I understand you need to create animations. Image based lighting needs GI. And the current GI system is very slow in RS... I'm even not sure if you can get a flicker free animation. Arjo. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van:

Re: Is it possible to use an image to illuminate a scene?

2011-01-17 Thread Jean-Sebastien Perron
Thank you very much Jason. I will try it later : in the next week. Will get back to you. Jean-Sebastien Perron www.NeuroWorld.ws On 11-01-17 04:45 PM, j...@pixelperfect.co.uk wrote: Hi Jean-Sebastien, You may want to try this if you haven't already, as an alternative to using HDRI images. I

Is it possible to use an image to illuminate a scene?

2011-01-16 Thread Jean-Sebastien Perron
I would like to use an HDRI image of a 360 landscape to illuminate my scene. How do I do that without opening my shading language books? By the way, I have a project to realize for a company with RS. It would not be wise to use CombadZ at this stage for such an important project with a short