thanks for the tuto; On 5.2 after some fighting; I manage to make the hdri to work (ray was doing nothing, but size at 1000 fix bugs). I also find a way to change the HDR to a sphere (the static mesh in the content was not working at all) Speaking about fireflies, take care that limiting max value will also limit the specular value, if you render in EXR you will notice it.
exr file does work. unreal treats exr files as textures and hdr files as cubemaps and project them differently. for exr files, you will need a uv-unwrapped skysphere mesh and create an issky material using the exr file.
@@AlexPearce3d I use an editor sphere as a custom skysphere and exr files actually work for me because editor sphere has uv. although I couldn't recall why I keep doing this rather than just use HDRI backdrop or feed an HDR file to skylight. Real time capture? No need to change mipmap settings? I guess old habits die hard.
What kind of sphere is that? I tried to put it in Shapes / sphere, and I gave it a chrome material. But it doesn't act the same as yours. Well, when I rotate the angle of the Cubemap, ( Source Cubemap Angle ) it doesn't rotate in my sphere. What sphere did you put and why does it reflect like chrome?
I am getting hung up on how you made it so your HDRI Backdrop did not contribute any lighting. I followed your steps exactly but turning down my backdrop intensity still impacts my lighting in viewport using Lumen. Any ideas? Thanks for releasing this!
Dear Alex, thank you for your time and effort. I am a beginner and I apologize in advance for my stupid question. I create stories and need only renders. And the HDRI lighting looks great but when I turn off Visible in Geometry (I don't want to render the HDRI itself - only its lighting) the lighting from the HDRI also disappears. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. All the best from Copenhagen, Adam
im using a big film back drop i convrted the jpg into a hdri and im trying to use it as a back drop in unreal but i cant seem to get it have you done this before and can you show us how
No the HDRis I’ve been shooting have been from a dslr with multiple brackets which wouldn’t work for drone photography. It is possible to shoot non hdri 360 images from drones, of course and it’s something I could look into.
Nice tutorial! lots of cool tips. In my project I am trying to render my scene with path tracing. The animation sequence starts in darkness and I then need to turn on the reflections and lighting from the backdrop, few light manipulations in sequencer with the hdri background to stay black. I understand there is no way to have reflections without lighting so I need a way to manipulate the plugin intensity from sequencer. Digging in the material I found the parameter array but the values are not named or I am too dumb to figure it out. Should I just try and learn do the skybox myself instead of relying on the plugin? If anyone knows how to pull that parameter into sequencer or any other solution I ll be forever grateful!
How use HDRI but without the sky ! I have the BP SKYSPHERE with clouds mouvement, I just want keep the montains from my HDRI but without the sky !? is it possible ?...
When I try to use HDRI, it's all distorted unless I use camera projection, but I don't want that. edit: Found the problem. The ones I have were meant to be used with SM_SkySphere mesh.
Hi Alex, There is only one Hdri in my hdri file and I downloaded some Hdri from Hdri Heaven and when I want to upload them, I upload the Hdri and it does not appear at all and gives a red warning
Packaging is a whole other thin. I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be packaged by default, but you may have to play with the packaging settings like full rebuild or include editor content.
Do you have the version from the epic marketplace? Of so do you have path tracer checked on? You’ll need to uncheck that if you not using path tracing. If you’re still having issues email is at hello at Lightsailvr dot com and if you can, send some screenshots, ue version number, etc.
Yeah :( for all these issues, I made my own plug in that has HDRis set up in a way, and locked the sun position to where it should be in the HDRi so that you can rotate them both with one slider, etc
If that doesn’t work one trick is to change the extension to .hdr, then import it. There’s probably a texture import preference you can change to make it work as well.
When I change the file format to .hdr, I still encounter the same issue. So far, the only solution I have found is adjusting the Compression Settings 🥴@@AlexPearce3d
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After long time I found a perfect and well explained tutorial. Great Work
Glad to hear that!
thanks for the tuto; On 5.2 after some fighting; I manage to make the hdri to work (ray was doing nothing, but size at 1000 fix bugs).
I also find a way to change the HDR to a sphere (the static mesh in the content was not working at all)
Speaking about fireflies, take care that limiting max value will also limit the specular value, if you render in EXR you will notice it.
this just made my day sir, please keep on doing what you do, grat work!
exr file does work. unreal treats exr files as textures and hdr files as cubemaps and project them differently. for exr files, you will need a uv-unwrapped skysphere mesh and create an issky material using the exr file.
One trick is if you change the extension from exr to .hdr before you import, it will read it correctly.
@@AlexPearce3d I use an editor sphere as a custom skysphere and exr files actually work for me because editor sphere has uv. although I couldn't recall why I keep doing this rather than just use HDRI backdrop or feed an HDR file to skylight. Real time capture? No need to change mipmap settings? I guess old habits die hard.
Thank you so much! Big help on a current project I'm on at the moment!
Thank you Bro. Nice tutorial. Keep the good work
Thanks!
What kind of sphere is that? I tried to put it in Shapes / sphere, and I gave it a chrome material. But it doesn't act the same as yours. Well, when I rotate the angle of the Cubemap, ( Source Cubemap Angle ) it doesn't rotate in my sphere. What sphere did you put and why does it reflect like chrome?
Excellent tutorial, you gained one more subscriber!!
Thanks for the sub!
Thanks so much, Alex for the Video. Explained it nicely. I will bookmark this vedio.
Very helpful and well explained, Thank you
very thank!
Helpful man! Thanks
Visible in ray tracing doesn't compatible with Lumen ??
This was very useful! Thanks
I am getting hung up on how you made it so your HDRI Backdrop did not contribute any lighting. I followed your steps exactly but turning down my backdrop intensity still impacts my lighting in viewport using Lumen. Any ideas? Thanks for releasing this!
Dear Alex, thank you for your time and effort. I am a beginner and I apologize in advance for my stupid question. I create stories and need only renders. And the HDRI lighting looks great but when I turn off Visible in Geometry (I don't want to render the HDRI itself - only its lighting) the lighting from the HDRI also disappears. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. All the best from Copenhagen, Adam
Well done! Thanks!!
hi. is there a way to have the volumetric cloud be over the hdri so even thats visible?
I've imported a room hdri and for some reson its flat it's not afecting the skies i cant see the room's roof only the bottom pic
thx
thank you for the tutorial. and one other thing, can you tell me how you enable the path tracing loading bar?
im using a big film back drop i convrted the jpg into a hdri and im trying to use it as a back drop in unreal but i cant seem to get it have you done this before and can you show us how
vary good tutorial for HDRI, do you try a sphere HDRI pic by drone instead of a dome HDRI ground?
No the HDRis I’ve been shooting have been from a dslr with multiple brackets which wouldn’t work for drone photography. It is possible to shoot non hdri 360 images from drones, of course and it’s something I could look into.
Thank you
Nice tutorial! lots of cool tips. In my project I am trying to render my scene with path tracing. The animation sequence starts in darkness and I then need to turn on the reflections and lighting from the backdrop, few light manipulations in sequencer with the hdri background to stay black. I understand there is no way to have reflections without lighting so I need a way to manipulate the plugin intensity from sequencer. Digging in the material I found the parameter array but the values are not named or I am too dumb to figure it out. Should I just try and learn do the skybox myself instead of relying on the plugin? If anyone knows how to pull that parameter into sequencer or any other solution I ll be forever grateful!
How use HDRI but without the sky ! I have the BP SKYSPHERE with clouds mouvement, I just want keep the montains from my HDRI but without the sky !? is it possible ?...
im at 4:35 and the hdri still doesnt light my scene, why do you talk about path tracing on ue5 and not... Lumen??
When I try to use HDRI, it's all distorted unless I use camera projection, but I don't want that.
edit: Found the problem. The ones I have were meant to be used with SM_SkySphere mesh.
Hi Alex, There is only one Hdri in my hdri file and I downloaded some Hdri from Hdri Heaven and when I want to upload them, I upload the Hdri and it does not appear at all and gives a red warning
How to hide the reflection and the background and keep only the lighting
U DA MAN!
Bro, when I package my project for PC target, the HDRI doesn't export, I have a blue sphere instead of, no background ! What is the solution ?
Packaging is a whole other thin. I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be packaged by default, but you may have to play with the packaging settings like full rebuild or include editor content.
@@AlexPearce3d I tried but no hdr after package game !
Hi, does using the HDRI backdrop overrides the Sun and Skylight components with its directional lihjts or do you need to turn them off?
Hi Alex, is your plugin available on the marketplace? Also - interested - when might we use path tracer over realtime/lumen? Thanks!
Ah HDRI plus! awesome. : )
yea turning off visibility turn off both my back drop and my lights............
Do you have the version from the epic marketplace? Of so do you have path tracer checked on? You’ll need to uncheck that if you not using path tracing. If you’re still having issues email is at hello at Lightsailvr dot com and if you can, send some screenshots, ue version number, etc.
@@AlexPearce3d Good afternoon! I have exactly the same problem, the lights go out!
@@AlexPearce3d but I use lumen
You save My ass thanks
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With no directional lights on your scene you wont get shadows from your objects.
Yeah :( for all these issues, I made my own plug in that has HDRis set up in a way, and locked the sun position to where it should be in the HDRi so that you can rotate them both with one slider, etc
LoL Pic format from HDRI Haven. Photoshop nor Unreal recognize it. Why even bother?
open hdr texture and set "Compression Settings" to default
If that doesn’t work one trick is to change the extension to .hdr, then import it. There’s probably a texture import preference you can change to make it work as well.
When I change the file format to .hdr, I still encounter the same issue. So far, the only solution I have found is adjusting the Compression Settings 🥴@@AlexPearce3d
btw I'm new on UE. so i search on the internet. thats not my solution 😃