From the course: 3ds Max 2022 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Illuminating with an HDRI environment

Illuminating with an HDRI environment - 3ds Max Tutorial

From the course: 3ds Max 2022 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Illuminating with an HDRI environment

- [Instructor] The next level up in environment lighting is a Panorama of a high dynamic range image or HDRI. This is also known as image based lighting or IBL. We can apply an image to our environment and that will provide illumination and a background. It does need to be a high dynamic range image to work well meaning that the pixel values represent physical intensities of light. If you just drop an ordinary image into the environment slot you're not going to get good results. It needs to be a special HDR image in order to properly illuminate the scene. Let's add one, in the Rendering menu, choose Environment and the environment tab and the common parameters rollout, we'll see a slot for Environment Map. Click the big button labeled None and we get the material map browser opening up, navigate to maps, RSL, Environment, and choose HDRI environment. Now that's a special map type, it has color correction controls for high…

Contents