Hyperfocal Textures
Hyperfocal Design's sky textures feature high resolution, hemispherical and 360 degree panoramas for mapping onto a sky dome or cylinder.
54 sky textures total in various times of day and weather conditions:
Hyperfocal Skies features hemispherical and 360 degree sky textures at resolutions previously unachievable without custom built software. The hemispherical sky textures included in the Hyperfocal Skies set feature a huge 12000x4000 pixels of unrestricted camera movement, while the 360 degree skies average 14000x2800 pixels.
Hyperfocal Skies includes a wide range of times of day and weather conditions to suit any scene. Sky textures are mappable onto a hemisphere, cylinder or background. Provided in 24 bit RGB, High Quality JPEG format and compatible with any 2D or 3D package.
Hemispherical Skies
20 textures including:
360° Skies
28 textures including:
Landscapes
6 Landscape textures including:
Hyperfocal Skies comes as a one CD collection. Textures included in Hyperfocal Skies are royalty free and are compatible with all major graphics applications on PC and Mac.
At Hyperfocal Design, we’re so confident of the quality and ease of use of our product that we’re certain you’ll see there is no better, easier, or more effective way to increase the quality & professionalism of your projects. If it is not completely up to your highest expectations, just return it at any time for a no questions asked refund (less postage when shipping required).
Hyperfocal Skies 2, a digital image library, which consists of 65 high resolution, high quality sky textures
Hyperfocal Design's sky textures feature high resolution, hemispherical and 360 degree panoramas for mapping onto a sky dome or cylinder.
65 sky textures total in various times of day and weather conditions:
Hyperfocal Skies 2 features 51 photographic, hemispherical sky textures averaging 12000x4000 pixels. No 180 degree panoramas or single row panoramas, just full hemispherical sky textures with enough resolution to allow completely unrestricted camera movement in all directions. Hyperfocal Skies 2 includes a wide range of times of day and weather conditions to suit any scene. Sky textures are mappable onto a hemisphere, cylinder or background. Provided in 24 bit RGB, High Quality JPEG format and compatible with any 2D or 3D package.
Hemispherical Skies
51 textures including:
32 bit Horizons with alpha channels
11 textures including:
3 Bonus, Alpha Masked, Tiling Sky Textures
Hyperfocal Skies comes as a one CD collection. Textures included in Hyperfocal Skies are royalty free and are compatible with all major graphics applications on PC and Mac.
At Hyperfocal Design, we’re so confident of the quality and ease of use of our product that we’re certain you’ll see there is no better, easier, or more effective way to increase the quality & professionalism of your projects. If it is not completely up to your highest expectations, just return it at any time for a no questions asked refund (less postage when shipping required).
Over 90 high resolution, high quality terrain textures of grasses, dirt, gravel, pebbles, sand, rock, stone, and other miscellaneous terrains.
Over 90 high resolution, high quality terrain textures in the following categories:
Hyperfocal Terrains features 92 high quality, high resolution terrain textures. The textures included provide a range of common and some not so common terrain textures found in outdoor environments. The majority of textures are provided as 2048x2048 resolution, and a small number of textures are also provided in various resolutions ranging up to 4096x4096.
Hyperfocal Terrains includes a wide range of terrains and ground covers to suit any outdoor scene. Textures are provided in 24 bit RGB, High Quality JPEG format and compatible with any 2D or 3D package.
Hyperfocal Terrains comes as a one CD collection. Textures included in Hyperfocal Terrains are royalty free and are compatible with all major graphics applications on PC and Mac.
As a bonus feature and preview, two medium resolution skies have been included from Hyperfocal Design's other texture collection, Hyperfocal Skies.
At Hyperfocal Design, we’re so confident of the quality and ease of use of our product that we’re certain you’ll see there is no better, easier, or more effective way to increase the quality & professionalism of your projects. If it is not completely up to your highest expectations, just return it at any time for a no questions asked refund (less postage when shipping required).
The Night Skies “mini collection”. Night Skies is available on DVD and contains 14 night and twilight images, including two bonus HDR moon images. The images in Night Skies measure 10,000 x 2,500 pixels in TIF format.
14 Hemispherical Night and Twilight Skies
Bonus: 2 HDR Moon Images:
Hyperfocal Night Skies is a "mini collection" available on DVD or as individual images. It contains 14 night and twilight images, including two bonus HDR moon images. The images in Night Skies measure 10,000X2,500 pixels in TIF and JPG format.
Hyperfocal Night Skies includes a range of times of day and weather conditions to suit any scene. Night sky textures are mappable onto a hemisphere, cylinder or background. Provided in 24 bit RGB, High Quality JPEG and TIF format and compatible with any 2d or 3d package.
At Hyperfocal Design, we’re so confident of the quality and ease of use of our product that we’re certain you’ll see there is no better, easier, or more effective way to increase the quality & professionalism of your projects. If it is not completely up to your highest expectations, just return it at any time for a no questions asked refund (less postage when shipping required).
V Series Night Skies include Night Sky Textures and Twilight Skies in TIF format. Bonus Moon Images also included. The images in V Series Night Skies 2 measure 14,000 x 3,500 pixels in TIF format.
20 Hemispherical Night and Twilight Skies
Bonus: 2 FREE HDRI Moon Images:
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If after purchasing any of our products, they don't completely live up to your highest expectations, just return it at any time for a no questions asked refund (less postage when shipping required).
Hyperfocal Design's second V-Series collection is Night Skies 2. Available on DVD as individual images, it contains 20 super high resolution night sky textures and twilight sky textures, including two bonus HDR moon images. The night sky textures collection measures 14,000 X 3,500 pixels in TIF and JPG format.
V-Series: Night Skies 2 includes a range of times at night/twilight and weather conditions to suit any scene. Night sky textures are mappable onto a hemisphere, cylinder or background. Provided in 24 bit RGB, High Quality JPEG and TIF format and compatible with any 2d or 3d package.
V-Series: Night Skies 2 comes as a one DVD collection. Hyperfocal Night Sky textures are royalty free and are compatible with all major graphics applications on PC and Mac.
Hyperfocal Night Skies use only the best quality digital optics for crisp, clean images. This bundle contains both Night Skies and V-Series Night Skies Vol.2.
The Night Skies Bundle includes:
BONUS: 2 FREE HDRI Moon Images:
Note: Bundle saves you $47. Products may be purchased separately.
Hyperfocal Design believes you should be able to experience products personally before you make a decision. This way you can put our products to the test yourself, without relying on sales speak.
If after purchasing any of our products, they don't completely live up to your highest expectations, just return it at any time for a no questions asked refund (less postage when shipping required).
Hyperfocal Design's second V-Series collection is Night Skies 2. Available on DVD as individual images, it contains 20 super high resolution night sky textures and twilight sky textures, including two bonus HDR moon images. The night sky textures collection measures 14,000 X 3,500 pixels in TIF and JPG format.
V-Series: Night Skies 2 includes a range of times at night/twilight and weather conditions to suit any scene. Night sky textures are mappable onto a hemisphere, cylinder or background. Provided in 24 bit RGB, High Quality JPEG and TIF format and compatible with any 2d or 3d package.
V-Series: Night Skies 2 comes as a one DVD collection. Hyperfocal Night Sky textures are royalty free and are compatible with all major graphics applications on PC and Mac.
Hyperfocal HDRIs use only the best quality digital optics for crisp, clean images. They provide maximum flexibility for your virtual camera and scene, allowing long zooms and extreme detail in reflection closeups.
Hyperfocal HDRIs use only the best quality digital optics for crisp, clean images. They provide maximum flexibility for your virtual camera and scene, allowing long zooms and extreme detail in reflection closeups.
Hyperfocal HDRIs use only the best quality digital optics for crisp, clean images. They provide maximum flexibility for your virtual camera and scene, allowing long zooms and extreme detail in reflection closeups.
High Resolution HDRI Skies
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Hyperfocal Design believes you should be able to experience products personally before you make a decision. This way you can put our products to the test yourself, without relying on sales speak.
If after purchasing any of our products, they don't completely live up to your highest expectations, just return it at any time for a no questions asked refund (less postage when shipping required).
"You can never have enough HDR libraries, but now a days, what makes a good HDR is not only its technical quality but its artistic merit as well. The HDRI skies from Hyperfocal Design shows great technique, high res, great dynamic range, and high quality photography, with a wonderful aesthetic eye that will offer the users a great lighting resource." - Christopher Nichols, Author of Global Illumination: Exteriors and Interiors from The Gnomon Workshop.
Each HDRI Sky can add instant, super realistic lighting to 3D scenes, with accurate reflections and a dynamic background that reacts realistically with semi-opaque surfaces such as tinted glass or atmospheric effects such as dust and smoke. Each HDRI Sky contains a range of exposure values from extremely under exposed to over exposed, allowing artists to choose precisely the exposure or "shutter speed" required.
Our sky HDRIs use only the best quality digital optics for crisp, clean images - we don't use mirror balls or distorted, low quality fisheye lenses. Due to the huge resolutions achieved, these images are amongst the only HDRIs available that can be used for background images & reflections as well as lighting. They provide maximum flexibility for your virtual camera and scene, allowing long zooms and extreme detail in reflection close-ups.
Note: Three HDRI Skies with "Clear" in the file name are computer generated.
Using Hyperfocal's hemispherical HDRI skies has advantages over using full spherical environments, which can include unwanted trees, buildings & other objects. Hyperfocal's HDR skies can be used in any scene, and once set as a background or environment, they will create super realistic lighting and accurate, bright contrasting reflections and highlights. Our HDRI skies come in high and medium resolution options as follows:
For use in projects requiring high resolution or quality, next-gen game titles, print applications, or for more creative freedom and virtual camera flexibility. Use high resolution HDRI skies for lighting, backgrounds and reflections.
For use in realtime, or low to medium resolution projects. Real-time HDRI skies for games allow the use of dynamic exposure adjustment, which can mimic the human eye adjusting to different light levels. Also useable for lighting and for lower resolution backgrounds and reflections.
"The sunset HDRIs are simply gorgeous, I now use the HDRIs on all my architectural viz stuff. It makes the lighting so much more simple!" - Matt Lester, 3DViz
Sky backgrounds: When used as a background, HDRI skies allow for dynamic, changeable exposure with enough resolution to allow long camera zooms and top quality prints. HDR backgrounds react realistically when viewing through tinted glass, smoke, fog and so on. Or convert to an LDR image such as tiff or jpg and choose exactly the exposure level you require. HDR images have such high bit depth and are so editable that you can heavily alter the original HDRI sky with minimal quality loss. Create moody, colourized, contrasty skies with no fear of grain or banding artifacts.
Photography: HDRI skies are much more flexible than ordinary LDR skies. Simulate whichever shutter speed you require for your sky replacement - blown out and overexposed, or greatly underexposed for silhouettes.
Lighting: If your software supports it, use the HDRI at full size for maximum sharpness in your shadows. Or down size/blur to any level you require. HDRI lighting provides accurate color representation that matches the sky image for super realism.
Reflections: If you've got a close-up of a car body or if you're looking through a reflection in a window, or if you are working to a high resolution output, the high resolution HDRI skies are for you. Lose the flat look that low dynamic range reflections produce, and see how much pop, realism and contrast your reflections achieve with HDRI
Browse through an ever increasing collection of HDRI Skies featuring a variety of time and weather conditions, including sunrises and sunsets, cloudy days and stormy skies. Each sky is named according to the time and weather condition.
You don't even need to be using HDRI lighting to benefit from Hyperfocal's HDRI skies - one of the drawbacks to traditional sky textures is that you are limited to the low dynamic range of the single exposure level provided. HDRI sky textures allow you to perfectly match the exposure level and mood of your 3d scene.
Check out our resources and stay tuned as Hyperfocal adds loads of content including tutorials and reviews covering all the major 3d software applications.
Follow the tutorials supplied below for help using your Hyperfocal Sky HDRIs in any of the following 3d programs.
Hyperfocal HDRIs use only the best quality digital optics for crisp, clean images. They provide maximum flexibility for your virtual camera and scene, allowing long zooms and extreme detail in reflection closeups.
High Resolution HDRI Skies
Click Here for Full Screen Catalogue
Order by Phone: (859)252-3118 x255
Hyperfocal Design believes you should be able to experience products personally before you make a decision. This way you can put our products to the test yourself, without relying on sales speak.
If after purchasing any of our products, they don't completely live up to your highest expectations, just return it at any time for a no questions asked refund (less postage when shipping required).
"You can never have enough HDR libraries, but now a days, what makes a good HDR is not only its technical quality but its artistic merit as well. The HDRI skies from Hyperfocal Design shows great technique, high res, great dynamic range, and high quality photography, with a wonderful aesthetic eye that will offer the users a great lighting resource." - Christopher Nichols, Author of Global Illumination: Exteriors and Interiors from The Gnomon Workshop.
Each HDRI Sky can add instant, super realistic lighting to 3D scenes, with accurate reflections and a dynamic background that reacts realistically with semi-opaque surfaces such as tinted glass or atmospheric effects such as dust and smoke. Each HDRI Sky contains a range of exposure values from extremely under exposed to over exposed, allowing artists to choose precisely the exposure or "shutter speed" required.
Our sky HDRIs use only the best quality digital optics for crisp, clean images - we don't use mirror balls or distorted, low quality fisheye lenses. Due to the huge resolutions achieved, these images are amongst the only HDRIs available that can be used for background images & reflections as well as lighting. They provide maximum flexibility for your virtual camera and scene, allowing long zooms and extreme detail in reflection close-ups.
Note: Three HDRI Skies with "Clear" in the file name are computer generated.
Using Hyperfocal's hemispherical HDRI skies has advantages over using full spherical environments, which can include unwanted trees, buildings & other objects. Hyperfocal's HDR skies can be used in any scene, and once set as a background or environment, they will create super realistic lighting and accurate, bright contrasting reflections and highlights. Our HDRI skies come in high and medium resolution options as follows:
For use in projects requiring high resolution or quality, next-gen game titles, print applications, or for more creative freedom and virtual camera flexibility. Use high resolution HDRI skies for lighting, backgrounds and reflections.
For use in realtime, or low to medium resolution projects. Real-time HDRI skies for games allow the use of dynamic exposure adjustment, which can mimic the human eye adjusting to different light levels. Also useable for lighting and for lower resolution backgrounds and reflections.
"The sunset HDRIs are simply gorgeous, I now use the HDRIs on all my architectural viz stuff. It makes the lighting so much more simple!" - Matt Lester, 3DViz
Sky backgrounds: When used as a background, HDRI skies allow for dynamic, changeable exposure with enough resolution to allow long camera zooms and top quality prints. HDR backgrounds react realistically when viewing through tinted glass, smoke, fog and so on. Or convert to an LDR image such as tiff or jpg and choose exactly the exposure level you require. HDR images have such high bit depth and are so editable that you can heavily alter the original HDRI sky with minimal quality loss. Create moody, colourized, contrasty skies with no fear of grain or banding artifacts.
Photography: HDRI skies are much more flexible than ordinary LDR skies. Simulate whichever shutter speed you require for your sky replacement - blown out and overexposed, or greatly underexposed for silhouettes.
Lighting: If your software supports it, use the HDRI at full size for maximum sharpness in your shadows. Or down size/blur to any level you require. HDRI lighting provides accurate color representation that matches the sky image for super realism.
Reflections: If you've got a close-up of a car body or if you're looking through a reflection in a window, or if you are working to a high resolution output, the high resolution HDRI skies are for you. Lose the flat look that low dynamic range reflections produce, and see how much pop, realism and contrast your reflections achieve with HDRI
Browse through an ever increasing collection of HDRI Skies featuring a variety of time and weather conditions, including sunrises and sunsets, cloudy days and stormy skies. Each sky is named according to the time and weather condition.
You don't even need to be using HDRI lighting to benefit from Hyperfocal's HDRI skies - one of the drawbacks to traditional sky textures is that you are limited to the low dynamic range of the single exposure level provided. HDRI sky textures allow you to perfectly match the exposure level and mood of your 3d scene.
Check out our resources and stay tuned as Hyperfocal adds loads of content including tutorials and reviews covering all the major 3d software applications.
Follow the tutorials supplied below for help using your Hyperfocal Sky HDRIs in any of the following 3d programs.
Hyperfocal HDRIs use only the best quality digital optics for crisp, clean images. They provide maximum flexibility for your virtual camera and scene, allowing long zooms and extreme detail in reflection closeups.
Hyperfocal HDRIs use only the best quality digital optics for crisp, clean images. They provide maximum flexibility for your virtual camera and scene, allowing long zooms and extreme detail in reflection closeups.
2 Bonus High Resolution HDRI Skies Included! (value $118)
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At Hyperfocal Design, we’re so confident of the quality and ease of use of our product that we’re certain you’ll see there is no better, easier, or more effective way to increase the quality & professionalism of your projects. If it is not completely up to your highest expectations, just return it at any time for a no questions asked refund (less postage when shipping required).
"You can never have enough HDR libraries, but now a days, what makes a good HDR is not only its technical quality but its artistic merit as well. The HDRI skies from Hyperfocal Design shows great technique, high res, great dynamic range, and high quality photography, with a wonderful aesthetic eye that will offer the users a great lighting resource."
-Christopher Nichols
Author of Global Illumination: Exteriors and Interiors from The Gnomon Workshop
Image: HDRI Map - Concrete Tunnel
Each HDR (high dynamic range) Environment can add instant, super realistic lighting to 3D scenes, with accurate reflections and a dynamic background that reacts realistically with semi-opaque surfaces such as tinted glass or atmospheric effects such as dust and smoke. Each HDRI Environment map contains a range of exposure values from extremely under exposed to over exposed, allowing artists to choose precisely the exposure or "shutter speed" required.
Our HDRIs use only the best quality digital optics for crisp, clean images - we don't use mirror balls or distorted, low quality fisheye lenses. Due to the huge resolutions achieved, these images are amongst the only HDRIs available that can be used for background images & reflection maps as well as lighting. They provide maximum flexibility for your virtual camera and scene, allowing long zooms and extreme detail in reflection close-ups.
For use in projects requiring high resolution or quality, next-gen game titles, print applications, or for more creative freedom and virtual camera flexibility. Use high resolution HDR Environments for lighting, backgrounds and reflections.
For use in realtime, or low to medium resolution projects. Real-time HDR Environments for games allow the use of dynamic exposure adjustment, which can mimic the human eye adjusting to different light levels. Also useable for lighting and for lower resolution backgrounds and reflection maps.
Image: HDRI Map - Desert Rocks
Backgrounds: When used as a background, HDRIs allow for dynamic, changeable exposure with enough resolution to allow long camera zooms and top quality prints. HDR backgrounds react realistically when viewing through tinted glass, smoke, fog and so on. Or convert to an LDR image such as tiff or jpg and choose exactly the exposure level you require. HDR images have such high bit depth and are so editable that you can heavily alter the original HDRI with minimal quality loss. Create moody, colourized, contrasty images with no fear of grain or banding artifacts.
Lighting: If your software supports it, use the HDRI map at full size for maximum sharpness in your shadows. Or down size/blur to any level you require. HDRI lighting provides accurate color representation that matches the HDR image for super realism.
Reflections: If you've got a close-up of a car body or if you're looking through a reflection in a window, or if you are working to a high resolution output, the high resolution HDR images are for you. Lose the flat look that low dynamic range reflections produce, and see how much pop, realism and contrast your reflections achieve with HDRI.
Time/Weather Conditions and Locations: Browse through an ever increasing collection of HDR image maps featuring a variety of time, weather conditions and locations. HDRI Environments include stormy coastal regions, tree lined streets at sunset, dry lake beds at noon and more.
Choose Your Exposure Level: You don't even need to be using HDRI lighting to benefit from Hyperfocal's HDR maps - one of the drawbacks to traditional LDR images is that you are limited to the low dynamic range of the single exposure level provided. HDR images allow you to perfectly match the exposure level and mood of your 3d scene.
Image: HDR and LDR sky map comparison
Image: Different HDRI Map Exposures
VHDRI Skies are designed specifically to help you create super realistic lighting for your 3D scenes, with accurate reflections and a dynamic backgrounds that react realistically with all manner of different surfaces, such as semi-opaque surfaces like tinted glass, or atmospheric effects such as dust, smoke and haze.
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If after purchasing any of our products, they don't completely live up to your highest expectations, just return it at any time for a no questions asked refund (less postage when shipping required).
VHDRI Skies are designed specifically to help you create super realistic lighting for your 3D scenes, with accurate reflections and a dynamic backgrounds that react realistically with all manner of different surfaces, such as semi-opaque surfaces like tinted glass, or atmospheric effects such as dust, smoke and haze. Each VHDRI Sky is engineered with the highest dynamic range available today, ranging from extremely under exposed to over exposed, allowing artists to choose precisely the exposure or "shutter speed" required.
Our VHDRI skies use only the highest quality digital optics - we don't use mirror balls or distorted, low quality fish eye lenses. Due to the huge resolutions achieved, these images are amongst the only HDRIs available that can be used for background images and reflections as well as high performance lighting. They provide maximum flexibility for your virtual camera and scene, allowing long zooms and extreme detail in reflection close-ups.
Using Hyperfocal's hemispherical VHDRI skies has advantages over using full spherical environments, which can include unwanted trees, buildings & other objects. Hyperfocal's VHDRI skies can be used in any scene, and once set as a background or environment, they will create super realistic lighting and accurate, bright contrasting reflections and highlights.
Designed specifically for use in projects requiring very high resolution and super realistic lighting.
"The sunset HDRIs are simply gorgeous, I now use the HDRIs on all my architectural viz stuff. It makes the lighting so much more simple!" - Matt Lester, 3DViz
Sky backgrounds: When used as a background, VHDRI skies allow for dynamic, changeable exposure with enough resolution to allow long camera zooms and top quality prints. HDR backgrounds react realistically when viewing through tinted glass, smoke, fog and all manner of environmental conditions. Or convert to an LDR image such as tiff or jpg and choose exactly the exposure level you require.
VHDR images have such high bit depth and are so editable that you can heavily alter the original VHDRI sky with minimal quality loss. Create moody, colourized, contrasty skies with no fear of grain or banding artifacts.
Photography: VHDRI skies are much more flexible than ordinary LDR skies. Simulate whichever shutter speed you require for your sky replacement - blown out and overexposed, or greatly underexposed for silhouettes.
Lighting: If your software supports it, use the VHDRI at full size for maximum sharpness in your shadows. Or down size/blur to any level you require. VHDRI lighting provides accurate color representation that matches the sky image for super realism.
Reflections: If you're working to a high resolution output, high resolution VHDRI skies are for you. Lose the flat look that low dynamic range reflections produce, and see how much realism and contrast your reflections achieve with our industry leading VHDR skies.
VHDRI Skies feature a variety of time and weather conditions, including sunrises and sunsets, cloudy days and stormy skies. Each sky is named according to the time and weather condition.
You don't even need to be using VHDRI lighting to benefit from Hyperfocal's VHDRI skies - one of the drawbacks to traditional sky textures is that you are limited to the low dynamic range of the single exposure level provided. VHDRI sky textures allow you to perfectly match the exposure level and mood of your 3d scene.
Check out our resources and stay tuned as Hyperfocal adds loads of content including tutorials and reviews covering all the major 3d software applications.
Hyperfocal design's VHDRI Skies are compatible with any application on PC or Mac that supports .hdr or .exr files. This includes all major 2d and 3d applications such as HDRShop, CS2, 3dsmax, Lightwave, Softimage and so on.
Magic Hours is an HDRI sky collection consisting entirely of skies shot 1-2 hours before or after sunset. It contains a range of sunset, twilight and night HDRIs to add light, color and life to your scenes.
VHDRI: Very high resolution.
Due to the time of day, dynamic range is mostly 5-8 stops for twilight skies and 8-20 for sunsets.
Hyperfocal Design believes you should be able to experience products personally before you make a decision. This way you can put our products to the test yourself, without relying on sales speak.
If after purchasing any of our products, they don't completely live up to your highest expectations, just return it at any time for a no questions asked refund (less postage when shipping required).
VHDRI Skies are designed specifically to help you create super realistic lighting for your 3D scenes, with accurate reflections and a dynamic backgrounds that react realistically with all manner of different surfaces, such as semi-opaque surfaces like tinted glass, or atmospheric effects such as dust, smoke and haze. Each VHDRI Sky is engineered with the highest dynamic range available today, ranging from extremely under exposed to over exposed, allowing artists to choose precisely the exposure or "shutter speed" required.
Our VHDRI skies use only the highest quality digital optics - we don't use mirror balls or distorted, low quality fish eye lenses. Due to the huge resolutions achieved, these images are amongst the only HDRIs available that can be used for background images and reflections as well as high performance lighting. They provide maximum flexibility for your virtual camera and scene, allowing long zooms and extreme detail in reflection close-ups.
Using Hyperfocal's hemispherical VHDRI skies has advantages over using full spherical environments, which can include unwanted trees, buildings & other objects. Hyperfocal's VHDRI skies can be used in any scene, and once set as a background or environment, they will create super realistic lighting and accurate, bright contrasting reflections and highlights.
Designed specifically for use in projects requiring very high resolution and super realistic lighting.
Sky Backgrounds: When used as a background, VHDRI skies allow for dynamic, changeable exposure with enough resolution to allow long camera zooms and top quality prints. HDR backgrounds react realistically when viewing through tinted glass, smoke, fog and all manner of environmental conditions. Or convert to an LDR image such as tiff or jpg and choose exactly the exposure level you require. VHDR images have such high bit depth and are so editable that you can heavily alter the original VHDRI sky with minimal quality loss. Create moody, colorized, contrasty skies with no fear of grain or banding artifacts.
Photography: VHDRI skies are much more flexible than ordinary LDR skies. Simulate whichever shutter speed you require for your sky replacement - blown out and overexposed, or greatly underexposed for silhouettes.
Lighting: If your software supports it, use the VHDRI at full size for maximum sharpness in your shadows. Or down size/blur to any level you require. VHDRI lighting provides accurate color representation that matches the sky image for super realism.
Reflections: If you're working to a high resolution output, high resolution VHDRI skies are for you. Lose the flat look that low dynamic range reflections produce, and see how much realism and contrast your reflections achieve with our industry leading VHDR skies.
VHDRI Skies feature a variety of time and weather conditions, including twilight and sunsets, cloudy and stormy skies. Each sky is named according to the time and weather condition.
You don't even need to be using VHDRI lighting to benefit from Hyperfocal's VHDRI skies - one of the drawbacks to traditional sky textures is that you are limited to the low dynamic range of the single exposure level provided. VHDRI sky textures allow you to perfectly match the exposure level and mood of your 3d scene.
