Making of a Night Scene with HDRI (or A Sky Bitmap)

First topic message reminder :

UPDATE:
For those who are having a hardtime with HDRI. You may substitute it with a sky bitmap.

Hi guys. I made a night scene tutorial based on my work-flow from my latest project. During my test renders, I found out that HDRI is a very powerful tool. I would like to share to you the product of my simple experiment. First we need to download an HDRI image of a sunset.

Here I used the Barcelona Rooftops

from >>> http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

that was shared to us Nomeradona under free stuff section. I suggest you download it first before we start.

Next is we set up our scene. No lights yet, and just use your basic vray settings. I also found out that most of our settings for exterior will work.

Hit render and you will see something like this... A basic scene render.



Now we just add the VrayHDRI to the Environment Override on your vray settings.



Another VrayHDRI to your Background slot (type 8)



We will get something like this. Notice that the color of the scene has changed, this is due to the effect of the HDRI image to the scene. We can now feel the mood or the ambience.



Then we add lights, both fill lights and spotlights using vraylight (sphere) and IES light with web information of (ies-nice or 02).



And we have this now... almost done.



And finally, Add trees, cars, etc to complete the scene. Adjust in photoshop the colors or any mood you want to achieve.



I hope you like it! Enjoy creating your very own night scenes!

thanks po sir bokkins...(.n_n.)Happy valentines day... hehehe

Galing po! Sana meron din akong 3ds. Haha.

nice tuts sir! hindi na mahihirapan yung mga newbie!

tanong pa ako sir boks,, bat ung image ayaw mag pakita sa material ko,, plane color lang lumalabas sa material editr,, gusto ko sana ipakita ung sun ng image kaya lang d ko macontrol ung position nung baground ko,, tnx po ulit

napakabait mo dude ser boks... malaking tulong to...

huwaw!!!! ang galing sir bokkins..

bakugan wrote:Salamat sa pagshare sir bokks.

hitokiroy wrote:thanks bro! will try this now!

wyulethe wrote:thanks po sir bokkins...(.n_n.)Happy valentines day... hehehe

Archi.Karl wrote:Galing po! Sana meron din akong 3ds. Haha.

alwin wrote:nice tuts sir! hindi na mahihirapan yung mga newbie!

ERICK wrote:napakabait mo dude ser boks... malaking tulong to...

theomatheus wrote:huwaw!!!! ang galing sir bokkins..

Thanks mga bro!

archie.l wrote:tanong pa ako sir boks,, bat ung image ayaw mag pakita sa material ko,, plane color lang lumalabas sa material editr,, gusto ko sana ipakita ung sun ng image kaya lang d ko macontrol ung position nung baground ko,, tnx po ulit

You need to learn about HDRI first, meron tayong tutorial dyan bro. Or you can use a normal image, pwede din kasi yun.

salamat bro laking tulong eto ang dali lang sundan...

galing nito sir!...big help...posmor..ika nga ng mga master...

tnx boks.. ma try nga tong HDRI based lighting.

woooow..thanks soo much sir bokz sa tutz at sa link..!!

nice sir bokks ayos to! salamat!

galing sir...

salamat bro..

Can u share the scene as well sir??? for practice lang po.Thanks

cge bro, prepare ko muna, malalaki kasi ang files, lalo na ang HDRI, palitan ko muna ng bitmaps for lighter upload and download.

sir bakit lumaliki ung hdri pag ginagamit ko?d kaya maliit yung model ko?lalo na sa background

galing galing sir boks
salamat

thanks boks..

wow this is really good tutorial sir boks, its been a longtime i havnt yet to render again..thnks

akoy wrote:sir bakit lumaliki ung hdri pag ginagamit ko?d kaya maliit yung model ko?lalo na sa background

hindi yan lumalaki or lumiliit bro. hanap ka nalang ng exact match sa scene mo or pinakamalapit.

bokkins wrote:

akoy wrote:sir bakit lumaliki ung hdri pag ginagamit ko?d kaya maliit yung model ko?lalo na sa background

hindi yan lumalaki or lumiliit bro. hanap ka nalang ng exact match sa scene mo or pinakamalapit.

thanks try ko ulit pag my time ako hehehe sir istorbohin kta pag my tanong ako ha hehehe

galing nito sir boks... laking tulong nito..

wow ganun pala un....thanks for the tutorial....

rock n roll k talaga sir Boks.... keep rocking.. cgpinoy's will rocks the cgworld!

sir bokkins nice tutorial po,...^_^ sir,..ask ko lang po,..mas matagal po bang magrender pag maraming lights? kasi umabot po halos 9 hours yung render ko, low settings na po un,..dual core na 1 gig po gamit ko,..matagal po ba yun? or ok lang,..TY po