Compatibility (or better lack of)HDRi, IBL's, light domes etc. Reality 4.2 / Daz 4.9

Syphonaptera

Dearest all ,

 

I have the Reality 4.2 plug in installed and I think it has great potentional, if only the IBL's/ HDRi's/ Light, sky domes that Daz sells where COMPATIBLE and able to use with Reality 4.2!!
Does anyone know IBL's/ HDRi's/ Light, sky domes that Daz sells that DO work after loading in Daz 4.9,  so afterwards I can bridge it to Reality 4.2 / Luxrender , without f.e. the "cannot load/find toolkit" error message?

SO many thanks in advance....

kind regards

Syphonaptera

Hiro Protagonist

To quote myself in another thread:

You can use the HDR file from any package in Luxrender, assuming it's in a suitable format, and I would have thought they all are. "LatLong" is the usual, but Lux will also use "angular" (these are disk-shaped inside a square). It's the .hdr or .exr file that is loaded in the IBL section of Reality.

You can load the exr/hdr file manually in the Reality lighting tab, but although it will render you can't preview it in Studio. For a method of addressing this problem please see my first post on this thread. I'm particularly talking about the "Skies of Reality" package there (which worked in 2.5 but not in 4.x) but the same method can be used for any HDRI of a conventional format.

Hiro Protagonist

For an absolutely comprehensive guide to this issue please see this thread on the RuntimeDNA forums by Fuzzy70 (Lee). This also shows how to make dsa files so that you can load IBLs from within Studio (also scripts for Poser).

Syphonaptera

Hiro Protagonist said:

For an absolutely comprehensive guide to this issue please see this thread on the RuntimeDNA forums by Fuzzy70 (Lee). This also shows how to make dsa files so that you can load IBLs from within Studio (also scripts for Poser).

Wow , it is overwhelming to me ,....a lot of work for something that was use  to work with just some clicks .... I'll try it some day.