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Bake sunlight system or environment to HDRI
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:21 am
by Refracty
As we know it is better to use HDRs then sunlight as long as bidirectional pathtracing is not introduced.
So wouldn't it be possible to bake the environment (sunlight + sky or all incl. geometry) into a HDRI?
Re: Bake sunlight system or environment to HDRI
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:50 am
by abstrax
Refracty wrote:As we know it is better to use HDRs then sunlight as long as bidirectional pathtracing is not introduced.
So wouldn't it be possible to bake the environment (sunlight + sky or all incl. geometry) into a HDRI?
Nope unfortunately not, because the reason why sunlight is causing problems is its size. If you would like to bake a correct HDRI the sun would be only 1 or 2 pixels wide, which means you would then run into the same trouble as with the daylight system.
Cheers,
Marcus
Re: Bake sunlight system or environment to HDRI
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:36 am
by Refracty
Ah, I see.
Thank you Marcus