This is just an FYI for anyone who doesn't want to waste $125 or so.
This is now the third time one of our project leads has decided to buy a
package of Dosch HDRI environment maps for a project. We now own skies,
radiant skies, and industrial reflections. Of these, it's really
obvious that radiant skies and industrial reflections are just CG
renders of poorly-constructed environments. In the industrial
reflections, there are, for example, completely black materials (that
don't ever change color no matter what exposure you use). And none of
the interior lighting re-exposes in any sort of reasonable way. And the
clouds in the radiant skies are really stupid-looking hand-painted
chicken scratches. The regular "skies" package is not as bad, but I
wouldn't say I'm particularly impressed by it, either. Anyway, just a
heads-up about a lame product. For interiors at least, just save
yourself some money and make your own environment maps of your
scenes... If you don't have a scene, just throw some cubes in there --
that's all Dosch did.
-Andy
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