Well I can only speak on behalf of the "Extreme High Res" and standard
"Sky" libraries. I found them very useful on several jobs where
creating or shooting our own HDRI was out of the question. If you have
the time and money though, its worth making your own with a proper
setup. I can highly recommend the guys at EPOP (http://www.epop.com/).
They use one of those great Spheron cameras and they created stunning
HDRI images for me in the past.
Kris
Andy Jones wrote:
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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