You are referring to the old version, right? I was about to answer the same because there were not very good, but they have new versions of the their industrial or 'chrome&studio fx'. The old ones were indeed a bit uhm crude. But took a look at the current ones. Seems pretty decent to me.
sven From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Jones Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DOSCH HDRI I would not recommend these, if it's the set I'm thinking of. There was one set we bought years and years ago, which turned out to basically be bad cg environments rendered as spheres with really bad emissive surfaces, and lacking a proper linear workflow. Some of their early photographic HDRIs also didn't seem to be in linear space. I think maybe once they got into the "extreme high-res" ones they started getting better? Another thing about HDRIs -- early on you could get something out of using a good HDRI in some other environment. These days, not so much. The standard is set by people projecting an HDRI taken from their original scene onto geometry. And in many cases, people are rebuilding the important lights more specifically with corresponding native light sources. I don't know your specific application, so take it with a grain of salt, but reflecting a random HDRI from Dosch onto your cg just isn't really cutting it anymore. On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Leoung O'Young <[email protected]> wrote: Anyone have used the HDRI imagery from Dosch Design? We are thinking of purchasing it. Thanks, Leoung http://www.doschdesign.com/products/hdri/Industrial_Reflections.html
