Yeah, I suppose we have too, though we've had just as much luck just
browsing through Turbo Squid. But these exr's, specifically, are pretty
weak, I think.
-Andy
Joe Laffey wrote:
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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