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Adding an HDRI sky

Adding an HDRI sky

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Adding an HDRI sky

HDRIs are images that specifically are used for reflection maps or to help light a scene. In this video I'm going to show you how you can use an HDRI to cast some nice reflections onto our scene's geometry. Now, since most of our scene, if not all of it, is filled with objects with reflective textures. Much of how our objects will look like, will be dependant on what are objects are reflecting. So, right now, our objects are just reflecting our other objects in the scene, and it looks rather flat if I render this out. Now just so we can get some nice comparisons, I'm just going to render this out as a still. Render the current frame. So, I'm just going to render this through picture viewer. That's without our HDRI, and I'll just hide that. And I've included an HDRI in the exercise files that you can use. Or you could just search the web for free HDRI images and you'll easily find one that you can use instead. I have one already, right here. This sports_rewind.hdr. I'm going to apply…

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