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Pre-rendered distant land props for use with HDRI's?

mwasielewski1990mwasielewski1990 Posts: 343
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So in general, I'm looking for a convenient way to add some depth to outdoor scenes. HDRI's are cool and all, but when used on their own, they sometimes seem out of scale, too close, or too far... you get the idea.

It would be cool to have a set of pre-rendered 360 degree/spherical distant terrain props like mountains, trees, and alike.

This is the closest to the thing I want:

https://www.daz3d.com/skies-of-gaia--20-8k-hdri-skies-with-pre-rendered-terrain-for-iray

BUT... As I understand, the distant terrain is baked into the HDRI... which would not be a problem, except for the pack only consists of a mountain scene. I'd need something more - deserts, jungles, trees... Stuff like that.

Any help with finding such content would be appreciated :)

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,119

    Add props to the scene as you would any other scene. The HDRI is only a backdrop for whatever else you add.

  • mwasielewski1990mwasielewski1990 Posts: 343

    Fishtales said:

    Add props to the scene as you would any other scene. The HDRI is only a backdrop for whatever else you add.

    I'm not a beginner at 3D, you clearly misunderstood my question laugh

    My point is - I want it pre-rendered to shave off rendering time and VRAM usage.

    I thought about buying Terradome and using it for making this stuff myself, but... I honestly don't need all of it's features, it would be a waste of money.

    I simply need a spherical plane with pre-made distant terrain details, something that would blend the detailed props you normally use in a render with the HDRI's backdrop. Something quick and practical.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,119

    Make your own by turning them into billboards. Something here might suit what you are looking for. I have a few of the landscape ones.

  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,415

    There are a few in the store

    https://www.daz3d.com/mountainscapes-backdrops

    https://www.daz3d.com/cityscapes-backdrops-volume-2

    https://www.daz3d.com/treescapes-backdrops

    There may be some more these are by ImagineX

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,119

    scorpio said:

    There are a few in the store

    https://www.daz3d.com/mountainscapes-backdrops

    https://www.daz3d.com/cityscapes-backdrops-volume-2

    https://www.daz3d.com/treescapes-backdrops

    There may be some more these are by ImagineX

     

    You can replace the images in these and make your own backdrops as they are just billboards. 

  • jjoynerjjoyner Posts: 616
    edited August 2022

    mwasielewski1990 said:

    So in general, I'm looking for a convenient way to add some depth to outdoor scenes. HDRI's are cool and all, but when used on their own, they sometimes seem out of scale, too close, or too far... you get the idea.

    It would be cool to have a set of pre-rendered 360 degree/spherical distant terrain props like mountains, trees, and alike.

    This is the closest to the thing I want:

    https://www.daz3d.com/skies-of-gaia--20-8k-hdri-skies-with-pre-rendered-terrain-for-iray

    BUT... As I understand, the distant terrain is baked into the HDRI... which would not be a problem, except for the pack only consists of a mountain scene. I'd need something more - deserts, jungles, trees... Stuff like that.

    Any help with finding such content would be appreciated :)

     

    Hello.  I’ve been dabbling at 3D computer graphics stuff since 2007.  I’ve even learned a few things about it during that time but my full-time job helped to limit the time and energy that I have to devote to it.  Now that I’ve retired, I’ve learned substantially more because I can play with it much more every day.  Making a billboard from scratch is not terribly difficult.  Although I have bought a few Now-Crowd billboard by RiverSoft Art in the DAZ store, earlier this year, I learned how to make one by following the instructions from the WP Guru (Jay Versluis) on his YouTube channel.  In February, he posted two videos on the subject:

    Another avenue that you may wish to follow is that of making your own HDRIs from scenes that you construct in Daz Studio.  Last year, I bought the Dreamlight tutorial, How To Extend Scenes With Home-Made HDRIs (https://www.daz3d.com/how-to-extend-scenes-with-home-made-hdris), for a ridiculously low sale price.  I followed the instructions in the tutorial earlier this week to make an HDRI from a Daz Studio scene.  Dreamlight uses Photoshop, but as stated above, other image manipulation software may work also.

    Another YouTube video that I discovered earlier this year on making HDRIs in Photoshop is How to use Merge to HDR in Photoshop CC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCteSD9oYT0).

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