Need help changing shadow direction in a rendering with HDRI environment

[karimanahdi]

Hello everyone,

I’m working on a rendering using an HDRI environment, but I can’t figure out how to change the direction of the shadows. The lighting and reflections from the HDRI look fine, but the shadows don’t fall the way I need them to.

Could anyone guide me on how to adjust or control the shadow direction while keeping the HDRI environment active?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[TrippyLighting]

HDRI  stands for high dynamic range image. That image contains the source of the illumination, hence the direction of the shadow is baked into the HDRI image.

If you want to change the direction, you'll have to click the little cross-hair icon in the scene settings:

Then you'll see a slider, which will allow you to rotate the HDRI around the vertical axis.

But obviously, that will rotate the entire image containing the light source. It will not rotate just the light source.

As you also use that image as the background, that is probably not what you want.

[karimanahdi]

yes it's an HDRI. I think the only solution is to edit the area and the shadow using Adobe Photoshop.

Thanks.