{"id":915,"date":"2011-01-12T11:29:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T11:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2013-04-15T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T09:34:06","slug":"vray-light-hdri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/12\/vray-light-hdri.htm","title":{"rendered":"A perfect light for exteriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big difference between interior and exterior renders is the light: precisely the way as the light is spreaded in the scene.<\/p>\n<p>In interior renders the light decay is clear, this is why interior renders have more shades and they look nicer than exteriors.<\/p>\n<p>In a different way the exteriors are often lighted by the sun, this light condition is simpler but the problem is the flat lighting. Sun light does not decay so everything appear flatter.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a solution! The way to achieve a rich light, with a lots of shades is <strong>HDRI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HDRI <\/strong>is the easiest way to light a scene getting a perfect light, HDRI is perfect to accord:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sun and Sky light<\/li>\n<li>Environment reflections<\/li>\n<li>Background image<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/images\/more-contents-sample.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With <strong>HDRI <\/strong>you don&#8217;t need to tune more parameters in order to according all these \u00c2\u00a0features because it&#8217;s all embedded in the HDRI file. You just need 1 light!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>&#8211; Use only good HDRIs: <\/strong>:\u00c2\u00a0I love <a href=\"http:\/\/3docean.net\/collections\/411760-hdri-skies?ref=cirosan\">Peter Gutrie Hdri<\/a>!<\/h3>\n<p>(I bought many hdri from Peter: I&#8217;m so satisfied)<\/p>\n<p>He created big and awesome HDRIs. In this video I will use one of its files to give you an example of the HDRI power:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18699355?title=0&amp;color=ffffff\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want to buy great and\u00c2\u00a0economic HDRIs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/3docean.net\/collections\/411760-hdri-skies?ref=cirosan\">The best Hdri I&#8217;ve ever seen: Peter Guthrie profile (paguthrie)<br \/>\n<\/a>&#8211; I bought 5 hdri here&#8230; these files are excellent!!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WARNING<\/span><\/strong>: Do you get a unreal proportioned backgrounds? You are probably using low\/bad quality HDRI maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exteriors are often lighted by the sun, this light condition is simpler but the problem is the flat lighting. Sun light does not decay so everything appear flatter. In this video tutorial I will show you how to light an exterior just using 1 V-Ray Light with an HDRI in the texture slot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}