HDR+sun

[manalokos]

there is a easy trick to make HDR+sun environment

Put a sphere with normals inverted around your scene.
Apply a black diffuse material with texture emission with you HDR
Make the material's opacity 50%

add a daylight environment setting using the "new" algorithm and put the sky black,

And you have you HDR+sun enviroment.

[BorisGoreta]

This is genial !

I used to have textured environment with an emitting sphere as a sun but this is even better !