Maya: Achieve Realistic Renders

I will show you how to use image based lighting to achieve some very realistic renders using HDRI's

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• MAYA
• TUTORIAL
• HDRI
• IMAGE
• BASED
• LIGHTING

[Seiferzed]

sorry am new to maya , but if the default light is off shouldn't you then add another light ? i mean how can the upper sphere act as a light source ?

thanks

[ekoed]

@Seiferzed Maya uses color information from the image that you've attached to the sphere to create the light. You can also add a regular light to enhance the effects. The default light is trash though.I would stay away from that.

[drescorpio1114]

This helped me alot now my renders are life like.

[ekoed]

@drescorpio1114 great, glad it helped :]

[yanagi0791]

thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge to us. you are heaven sent! :)

[lisarahree]

THANK YOU.

[myth123123]

thanx man this helped a ton, may be i can show u the image that i rendered if u r ok with it.

[guygool5]

i'm the 6,666 viewer :D

[reipasmado]

Wow, are you Seth Rogen? You sure sound like him! eheh nice video, thanks!

[jamalanimation]

Thanks you , this helped a lot . :)

[Nantchev]

When I turn default lighint off I ge no lighting at all even though I use global illumination.

Alo I am using Blinns and they do not reflect the HDRI lighting.

I ma using 2011 version btw.

[TheCartman87]

thanks a lot dude... that's a great and simple tutorial.

[ktmbua]

cheers for the tutorial



[adamlucienroy]

Thanks for the quick, simple tutorial, mang.