HDR Shops?

Loony

Hi,

I like HDR's (right now made another hdr Thread :O )

and daz3d and renderosity have some HDR's, but not enough for my greed ;)

I also know the wonderful free site hdr heaven, but is there in the internet also a hdr store? My google search gave me just a lot tech info about HDR in general :/ Like I have HDR Monitor from BenQ, but I am not looking for HDR photos, i am looking for 360° HDR's for daz3d. (doesnt need to be adjusted for daz3d).

What about such sites: 360cities.net/

is it possible to use the 360 pictures as hdr or a different format for daz3d? I had from hdriheaven one time a file which ended with "e" but I dont know it anymore, daz3d was able to read the file and use it as dome, but the image preview didnt worked in the render settings, but thats ok.

I just like to place my 3D char into real places. I special would like to have more interior inside buildings and with crowds, because filling scenes with peoples is really a ressource problem, I have some Billboards from Riversoftart (thanks!) but... I never used them xD I just bought them (how genius!....) because its not so easy to just grab/place 30 different looking peoples who look at one spot, like building a theathre scene, a real crowd would help more.

 

 

Sorry, too much writing!

Emo Sludge

There are a ton! If you search for HDRI instead of HDR you'll come up with a lot of results, especially for free/partially free options. 

https://www.google.com/search?q=HDRI&oq=HDRI&aqs=chrome..69i57j35i39l2j0j69i60j69i65j69i61l2.1934j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

3D model websites like CGTrader and Turbosquid also sell a lot of HDRI's and IBL's.

Seven193

You could combine these tools to create a HDR image.

- use Microsoft ICE to create a panorama image.
- create 3 different exposure images (+2EV,0EV,-2EV) from the panorama.
- use Photoshop or GIMP to calculate the final HDR image.

Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) (Panorama creator)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-photography-applications/image-composite-editor/

Photoshop HDR ((skip to 5:30) (File -> Automate -> Merge to HDR Pro)


Gimp HDR
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/410781/making-an-hdri-with-gimp#latest

 

Loony

Dave230 said:

You could combine these tools to create a HDR image.

- use Microsoft ICE to create a panorama image.
- create 3 different exposure images (+2EV,0EV,-2EV) from the panorama.
- use Photoshop or GIMP to calculate the final HDR image.

Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) (Panorama creator)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-photography-applications/image-composite-editor/

Photoshop HDR ((skip to 5:30) (File -> Automate -> Merge to HDR Pro)


Gimp HDR
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/410781/making-an-hdri-with-gimp#latest

 

Too much work, I just wanna buy/download hdri files to use them.

I asked 360cities but they said they want for ONE image 225€ O_o.... complete overrated crap...

 

 

Emo Sludge said:

There are a ton! If you search for HDRI instead of HDR you'll come up with a lot of results, especially for free/partially free options. 

https://www.google.com/search?q=HDRI&oq=HDRI&aqs=chrome..69i57j35i39l2j0j69i60j69i65j69i61l2.1934j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

3D model websites like CGTrader and Turbosquid also sell a lot of HDRI's and IBL's.

Thanks, seems like I searched just for HDR :)

 

I grabbed now this store:

https://hdrmaps.com/

10€ for a paid HDR and some Free hdr's that is okay, if it is a nice HDR 10e are okay, to support the photographer :)

Anyone know HDR's of crowds`?

wanna make scenes like this:

Where a mass is looking at one hotspot.

@Riversoftart could you make more medieval stuff where a lot people are "looking" straigt to a scene?

Like this, is not very useful to show the crod paying attention to the mid ;) Like "Looking at you" Crowds, maybe you create 5-10persons in 1 preloadable crowd :D

I know a bit outoftopic :D

KA1

Some good suggestions to help create the things your after here, even billboards you could render out yourself from Daz with little effort. Something to learn though, if you want specifics you shouldn't just shut down with "too much work" a lot of things can be worth a bit of time to learn so you can produce exactly what you want! I've looked for specifics before, it's tricky and learning to utilize the tools you have and others available go a long way to helping achieve your vision.

Loony

yeah thinked about making own billboards to create little crowds for specific scenes :/

Catherine3678ab

Basically a billboard is a plane with a picture on the diffuse and a mask [black/white] on the geometry cutout.

Ostadan

Catherine3678ab said:

Basically a billboard is a plane with a picture on the diffuse and a mask [black/white] on the geometry cutout.

… which is always facing the camera so that it is not foreshortened.

Catherine3678ab

hehehehe ... yeah that helps too :-)