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I also look forward to being able to use a combination of sunlight and HDRI environments

You can do this already. Attach a HDR image (via an Image node with gamma set to 1) to the Sky Texture pins of the Daylight node.

Paul

Great, thanks Paul,
I wasn't aware of that !

Sorry to ask for more, but advice on the following would also be much appreciated:

What's the best way of adding cast shadows to the hdri scene, short of photoshopping them in ?
Is there any way of creating a floor that's not visible but still receives shadows ?
In Cinema 4D, it's possible to set '(not) seen by camera' , '(not) seen by rays', is there something like that in Octane/Rhino ?

Lastly, what's the best way of creating a visible light glow, from something like a blackbody emission object ?

Many thanks, Ben

Just found the post-processing bloom, so that's answered !

BenStorch wrote:Great, thanks Paul,
I wasn't aware of that !

Sorry to ask for more, but advice on the following would also be much appreciated:

What's the best way of adding cast shadows to the hdri scene, short of photoshopping them in ?
Is there any way of creating a floor that's not visible but still receives shadows ?
In Cinema 4D, it's possible to set '(not) seen by camera' , '(not) seen by rays', is there something like that in Octane/Rhino ?

Lastly, what's the best way of creating a visible light glow, from something like a blackbody emission object ?

Many thanks, Ben

Make the ground prop a diffuse material and turn on Matte (enable it). This will create shadows on the hdri
Or you can add your own prop and apply the same material

Many thanks for the advice, will try it out,
slowly getting on top of things. . .