Testing HDR Maps

[Daemon_]

Testing some HDR maps and materials. Don't just the shapes/models they are just used for testing the materials.

[undertone]

i dont know how well the effect has worked, maybe render it in high/med/dark all from the same perspective and animate the 3 images to blend so we can see the difference.

[robgasm]

how did you do those models =| Its like a moibus strip =|

Do you know the best setup for an hdr? Add it to a material in the lumi channel, with no other channels on. Then add that to the sky object. Add a compositing tag to the sky to remove from camera view, and finally add a relfective material to the object.

And I can only see the reflections of the object, not the hdr, is it quite a plain hdr?

[Daemon_]

Its a blurred hdr. so yeah its quite plain. But the concept is there and works.

[robgasm]

Kay cool. Now howd you do the objects?

[Daemon_]

They are torus knots, extended primatives.

[robgasm]

You are using c4d?

I dont have extended prims. =/

And I knew they were torus knots (well, the first) but I thought youd either made them (heh) or downloaded them.

I tried making a klein bottle once, and got really confused.

[Daemon_]

Its 3DSMax.