Maxwell Render

Herve is correct!

Also http://www.hdri-locations.com/

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Brian Looney
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Great! Thanks guys. I have read posts where people are saying they do not get hard shadows with HDRI lighting. Is there a certain type of HDRI, or strategy, that you need to use to get hard shadows?

Thanks.

Aaron

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this one is a hard shadows hdri..

http://www.divshare.com/download/16927918-552

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Shadow hardness is determined by the quality (exposure steps) of the HDRI and the light source of the HDRI. So if you want hard shadows you have to pick an HDRI with a sunny sky as opposed to a cloudy sky which will produce soft shadows.

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Brian Looney
Maxwell + RealFlow
http://lunatic-studio.com/
Help! I'm dispersing into a haze of probability!

Thanks Guys. I will try the HDR file Herve.

Thanks.

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dual quad E5320's (1.8 ghz) (14.88 ghz total)
S5000 XVN SATA MOBO, 12 gigs of ram
win xp pro x64
Core i7 920 (2.66 ghz each core) 20 gigs of ram
Windows 7 Professional
Form-Z, Blender, VUE 9.5 and Maxwell Render
http://www.aaronsmithey.com

Brian,

I will try exporting an .hdr out of VUE with no clouds in the image. Maybe that will produce hard shadows. The .hdr that Herve suggested, produces very nice hard shadows.

Thanks

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dual quad E5320's (1.8 ghz) (14.88 ghz total)
S5000 XVN SATA MOBO, 12 gigs of ram
win xp pro x64
Core i7 920 (2.66 ghz each core) 20 gigs of ram
Windows 7 Professional
Form-Z, Blender, VUE 9.5 and Maxwell Render
http://www.aaronsmithey.com

Here is WIP update. Blender/ Maxwell. I added a mountain with pine trees particle instanced to the mountain via weight painting in Blender. I modeled the pine tree with the Blender add-on Sapling. Nice add-on by the way. This whole scenes only takes 1 min. 20 sec. to export from Blender to Maxwell. Compared to the times I get from Form-Z exporting to Maxwell, it is very impressive. I am going to render a Z-Depth pass. I used an HDRI, the one Herve gave to me. I will find a nice sky image or render one in VUE to go with the image as well.

Any comments/ tips welcome. Not sure on the sun angle too. It seems a bit blown out.

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dual quad E5320's (1.8 ghz) (14.88 ghz total)
S5000 XVN SATA MOBO, 12 gigs of ram
win xp pro x64
Core i7 920 (2.66 ghz each core) 20 gigs of ram
Windows 7 Professional
Form-Z, Blender, VUE 9.5 and Maxwell Render
http://www.aaronsmithey.com