Cinema 4D Tutorial: How to add HDRI

A quick video tutorial about how to add HDRI in Cinema4D.
The voice is made with ATT Mike 16. With a program called: NaturalReader 7

Free HDRI:
http://www.aversis.be/hdri/hdri-free.htm

//Sorry for the bad quality.

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Hi, I'm going to show you how to add a hdri image in Cinema 4D.

An hdri image is a high dynamic range image in 32 Bit, that allows you to lighten your scene and make it more realistic.

Now lets get started. First, open your internet browser. Then go to the link in the right of this video to download free hdri.

Choose one of the files to download and save it. I picked file, 009.

Now, open Cinema and add a sphere. Then move the Y axis to 100 meters.

Then add a floor object and a sky object.

On the bottom left, click file, then create a new material.

Open the material, and deselect color and specular.

Select luminance and load your hdri image.

Then drop the material to the sky object.

Create a new material, and change the color to green. Or whatever color you like. I also changed the specular settings a bit, but that's not very important.

Now drop the material to the sphere.

Open the render settings. Click on Global Illumination and activate it.
Leave the settings to default.

Now go to options, deselect auto light. We need to do this or the auto light will overshoot the scene. Remember to always deselect it when you are using Global Illumination.

Now the final part. Hit render, and you will see how the hdri changes your lightning without any light objects.

The lightning on your scene may not be the same as my. That's because you may have download a different hdri image.

Remember that different hdri images gives different lightning to your scene.

Here is a image without hdri and global illumination.

And here is with only global illumination.

So, you can see the difference hdri can bring you. And this was a simple scene. On more complex scenes, the lightning will be better.

Here is one quick scene that I made.

Thank you for watching and I hope that this tutorial was usefull.

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Sokol Mehmeti © 2009

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[DuTcHBuLLeTZz]

Awesome tutorial but you sound like a robot :)

[ResidentAk]

@DuTcHBuLLeTZz lol, thats because its not my voice :P its a cumputer generated voice xD

[flashfith]

I can do the same thing in softimage with 2 clicks xD. I'm beginning to learn c4d because I'm on a mac . What's better maya or c4d?

[ResidentAk]

okej, ehm well if you are new to 3D i suggest that you learn C4D. Otherwise, choose Maya. You have more options to make things.

[liamliamliamliam1989]

thanks steven hawkings...

[BryceJacoby]

@DuTcHBuLLeTZz idiot.

[DrBlueDot]

@blaizethefootylegend Go to render settings, effect, global illumination :]

[blaizethefootylegend]

I dont have global Illumination in my settings?!?! WTF!!!!

[94sFinest]

Thanks, robot fella.

This is really good :D

[handyandyradio]

Okay...I loved this tutorial. It was helpful and it made me laugh. For some reason...that voice is hilarious! lol Keep using it!

[shadow99102]

that is google translets :))

[toxicthunder69]

thank robot it helped :)

[MoMenTuMVaiNz]

@DuTcHBuLLeTZz Its google translate i think :d

[ThaStreetBaller]

Autolight will overshit the scene lol :)

[iMultitalented]

Globalululamination xDD