New Build (234)

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

The most important new feature, planar HDRI backgrounds, has been discussed here.

 

See what's new for more details and additional changes and fixes.

[qweqwi]

Good job Roy ...

[akinlolu olugboji]

What happened to build 233 or did I miss something?

[Marc Chaumier]

Great!

[akinlolu olugboji]

Thumbnails of plants, groundcover and materials not showing in Explorer. Win 7, 32bit OS.

[Marc Chaumier]

Copy all the files in a new folder, and it works. If you want, delete the old folder and rename the new folder with the name of the old folder deleted . Another way to repare, if you can see the "thumbs.db" file in your folder, is to delete this file, and windows will put another, and all will work.

[akinlolu olugboji]

Thanks all of a sudden without doing anything they are all viewing plants, groundcover, materials and all

[akinlolu olugboji]

Using the new widget, night present always produce black HDRi's

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Send the photo you're trying to use.

[akinlolu olugboji]

In the order, oringinal, day and night using the presets.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I think it's working fine-- see below when used in a scene with night level illumination. It's a very strange thing to do-- using a mid-day photo and calibrating it for night time. Use a night photo for better results.

[akinlolu olugboji]

In other words use the converted night hdri for a night scene and it will light up like Xmas as am seeing you do now.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I have no idea what you mean.

If you try to use an hdr calibrated for night in a scene with daylight it will look black-- the luminance in the map will not be able to compete with the daylighting. If you try to use an hdr calibrated for daylighting in a scene lit for nighttime it will look too bright and may make the scene go dark.

For example, if I use your bg on the night scene above I get this:

If I use the day map in a daylit scene I get this (I did reposition the map a little):