On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Andy Jones wrote:
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.
FWIW, I have gotten some models from Dosch that were more than adequate
for the price. So noth everything they have is lame. BUt, like anything
caveat emptor.
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