Indigo Renderer Forum

It would be nice if you could fix Indigo so that it works with spherical HDRIs, sometimes it's a pain to have to convert all of them to lat/long format.

i've used spherical HDRI using .float file

Dacksoldier

How do you convert .hdr to . float file?

so i open the hdr in photoshop and just save it with .float on the end
thats what i did

Dacksoldier wrote:so i open the hdr in photoshop and just save it with .float on the end
thats what i did

.float?!
That will render correct? Dont think so.

Or use hdrshop : panoramic transformations -> latlong to spherical

drBouvierLeduc wrote:Or use hdrshop : panoramic transformations -> latlong to spherical

You mean the other way round?
I only have spherical hdrs.
Whats the best way for me?
- convert them to lat long and save them as exr?

drBouvierLeduc wrote:Or use hdrshop : panoramic transformations -> latlong to spherical

Changing a lat/long probe to spherical won't make Indigo use the spherical mapping.

@Vienna: Yes, right now you have to convert spherical to lat/long in HDRshop and convert to EXR.

spherical .float files seem to work for me.

set the camera angle to 180 degress and render a shot of the sky hemisphere - then you know if it is mapped the right way.

I did a first test with a chrome ball. It is mapped the right way

I guess, latLong is better than spherical...
Though, the less distortion due to changing the map mode, the better as the quality will decrease with each conversion...

I say we ought to use each map the way god intended them to be used...

"I say we ought to use each map the way god intended them to be used... "