I just finished a short project and thought I'd show it off. Mostly it's just a mirrored ball I created while I learned to use HDR Shop. Hope ya like it.
Comments are welcome.

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman

Sorry, forgot to convert the iff to jpg. Gotta repost later.

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman

Use a .png or .gif , you lose too much quality with a jpeg

Ok, sure thing.

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman

Hellspawnuk - r sure about .gif ?
i thought they were worse than jpeg as they only had like 256 colours

jpegs r fine on here to show but for ur site ect u may want to use a better format

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Now at SMU doing BSc 3D Computer Animation so its hard to get on here
My wire render tut https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...threadid=20973

I'm quite sure you can set .gif to high quality and it keeps most of its original quality, not used it for a while, might have been something else.

Gif's are quite poor at the native 8 bit, and end up being large files (relativly for an image) if lots of colour information is included.

Mann, my HDRI stuff doesn't seem to work on these macs. Just wait a little longer for me to post. Gotta get to a pc.

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman

Ok! I know you've been giddy to see it, so here it is!
Hope ya like it. Not the quality I hoped for, but I was in a rush.

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman

looks a little dark... that's all i got.

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Accept no substitutions.

Im new at the HDRI thing. Still experimenting with stuff.

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman

if you were just learning how to make an HDRI i don't think you did it right... unless the image you made was of a stormy, overcast day... then hell it's perfect.

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Accept no substitutions.

I think you have to boost your brightness/gamma controls or something when rendering with HDR. I had to do something similar on a previous project. Have a look for maya -> hrdi tutorials online and I'm sure you'll find what you need in no time

Si

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Missed a few steps.
Gotta increase light, and I didn't connect the output thingys.
Maybe I'll try to get the same effect with some actual lighting.
Maybe I can make a nice halloween scene with it lol.

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman

Okay, I got my problems fixed and I know this one is pretty good.
Enjoy.
C & C welcome.

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman