Testing HDR Maps

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

http://www.catalyx-media.com/pics/image.jpg

http://www.catalyx-media.com/pics/HRDI.jpg

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.

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?

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

Kay cool. Now howd you do the objects?

They are torus knots, extended primatives.

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.

Its 3DSMax.