https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/projecting-an-hdri-onto-a-sphere-with-emission-and-how-to-get/m-p/12407307#M947 <P>I am trying to get parallax with an HDRi connected to the emission node (color and specular both set to 0), and I am having trouble getting the lighting to be closer to using a regular HDRi on an Arnold Sky.</P><P>In the photos I uploaded, one is the better more direct&nbsp; lighting using the HDRi on Sky object, and the other is the sphere HDRi texture with poorer lighting that looks more softer.</P><P>I have tried messing with render settings and things, but I cannot seem to find a way to get the lighting to look like the real HDRi with more shadow contrast.</P><P>Is there no real way for this to work?</P><P>I saw this demonstrated with Octane and it looked like it worked the way I wanted.</P><P><BR />My only other idea is to render the regular HDRi Sky with the sky invisible to camera, then render only the sphere HDRi solo, then composite them both later.</P><P>Or, is there any way to have both an HDRi Sky and a sphere with HDRi emission, but have only the Sky light the scene but still have the sphere visible in one render?</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 05:45:46 GMT ssjenforcer191191191 2023-11-30T05:45:46Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/projecting-an-hdri-onto-a-sphere-with-emission-and-how-to-get/m-p/12407307#M947 <P>I am trying to get parallax with an HDRi connected to the emission node (color and specular both set to 0), and I am having trouble getting the lighting to be closer to using a regular HDRi on an Arnold Sky.</P><P>In the photos I uploaded, one is the better more direct&nbsp; lighting using the HDRi on Sky object, and the other is the sphere HDRi texture with poorer lighting that looks more softer.</P><P>I have tried messing with render settings and things, but I cannot seem to find a way to get the lighting to look like the real HDRi with more shadow contrast.</P><P>Is there no real way for this to work?</P><P>I saw this demonstrated with Octane and it looked like it worked the way I wanted.</P><P><BR />My only other idea is to render the regular HDRi Sky with the sky invisible to camera, then render only the sphere HDRi solo, then composite them both later.</P><P>Or, is there any way to have both an HDRi Sky and a sphere with HDRi emission, but have only the Sky light the scene but still have the sphere visible in one render?</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 05:45:46 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/projecting-an-hdri-onto-a-sphere-with-emission-and-how-to-get/m-p/12407307#M947 ssjenforcer191191191 2023-11-30T05:45:46Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/projecting-an-hdri-onto-a-sphere-with-emission-and-how-to-get/m-p/12410063#M948 <P>Ok, I think I finally found a workaround.</P><P>I have my Arnold Sky with the HDRi set like normal, however, I made it invisible to camera, and I excluded the sphere I made.</P><P>I then used the sphere with no material, and added a mesh_light with the object as the sphere and the color as the HDRi texture.&nbsp; I turned up the intensity to an absurd amount, and this now seems to work the way I want.&nbsp; I also set the mesh_light to include only the sphere.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>It is a bit convoluted, and the mesh_light is literally just lighting itself up to be visible and nothing else, but it works for me, and the noise will be less than using the emission.</P> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:12:52 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/arnold-for-cinema-4d-forum/projecting-an-hdri-onto-a-sphere-with-emission-and-how-to-get/m-p/12410063#M948 ssjenforcer191191191 2023-11-30T06:12:52Z