Do You ACTUALLY Know How to Use HDRIs? // Blender 3D Tutorial 💥

[@christiangrajewski7518]

Thanks A lot for this tutorial Berk! I was looking for years now, to find exactly this technique! Specially because this is the main setup in Keyshot and I was always frustrated that it isn't the same in other programms. But now I know how to do it : ) !

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

Great to hear Christian!! Thanks a lot for constant support! :)

[@1NightInParisOfficial]

hey man i really want to use this technique. However at 2:30 where you "scale, Z, 0" the floor texture becomes distorted into a spiral. Even if map coordinates are on "Object" and the image texture is on "sphere", and have applied all transformations. Any tips?

[@TheLoserra94]

the same happens to me

[@plasmghost1]

At 3:40 the floor apears distorted and stretched, nothing like in your video and I followed the same steps. Any help? TY so much

[@InfinitycgIN]

love it but won't the light from the environment be blocked as the sphere is closed?

[@Boom_Tuber]

Exactly, so why not have just the dome?

[@Caucasian_male]

Hocam sen adamsın. Bu videodan çok şey öğrendim. Teşekkür ederim.

[@operationironfist3224]

WOW! I am working with Blender for years but I learned new thing tomorrow. Thanks!

[@gamerhobbit]

Thnak you, very helpful video. I have a question though: When you create the sphere, I though it would "block" the environment from affecting the car. But you kept udjusting the sphere to match the lighting of the car. How can the car "see" the environment when it is fully covered by the spher?

[@L0SHKE]

I was gonna ask the same thing :D

[@yahootube90]

Think I figured out what you guys are talking about. On the main toolbar, where it shows what lighting mode you are in, you can go to the material preview/rendered mode icon and checkmark the following options: "Scene Lights" and "Scene World". Messing with these is pretty important when trying to get materials/shaders right for a render. If they are unchecked it just uses the default Blender lighting on everything. If you check those, then it basically removes all the fake background lighting and you get only light from your own stuff. That messed me up once when doing a water shader. Thought it looked perfect then realized it was using the fake Blender default lighting and not the actual HDRI and had to tweak it.

[@Gugse84]

what did you do at 2:29? when you said "pick one of them on the up"..I cant figure out that part?

[@Petch85]

I have the same problem

[@ironhead_85]

@@Petch85 guys, use option "active element". You can see that setting in "transformation pivot"

[@ericksz.8]

2:22 how did you dit it?

[@bemci1975]

Fast, Concise and straight to the point...you made it look easy, even to a noob like myself 😂❤

[@chadconley9641]

Now I want to re-work so much of my stuff. Awesome!

[@ShutterAuthority]

I used to do the exact same thing until I found the Lily Surface scraper addon which achieves this exact result with some super clever nodes in the world shader. Give it a shot, it's a lot better than this method.

[@whatisthis48]

So Lily Surface scraper doesn't work on Blender 4.0. Do you know any other addon that will work similarly for 4.0?

[@jasonnehceis3267]

@@whatisthis48 Yes LSS has been updated to Blender 4.1 now.

[@sammeyen]

@@jasonnehceis3267 Does it work with 4.2? Otherwise I'll just download 4.1 instead because the addons looks great from what i've seen!

[@aliosanlou4425]

Why when i do this with EVEE NEXT , there is no shadows at all? Should i tweak the sphere material or visibility or somthin? Looks like The evee next is broken , cuz even wothout this whole sphere and things , it still doesnt cast shadows from hdris

[@Meteotrance]

Shadow catcher material node was made for that kind of ground match, it project the shadow of your cg car yo the backdrop.

[@xenofalcon]

This is fantastic, i've always wanted to make Gran Turismo styled HDRI scenes, but never quite knew how to execute it, until now. Thank you.

[@sanzharmuratovdesign]

One of the best automotive related blender course! Thanks

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

thanks a lot!

[@normzynormzy6364]

Please include the short cuts you are using next time ..some of us are noobies🥲

[@harshitjain2463]

I am eagerly searching for this comment even my blender don’t take any shortcut seriously how to setup shortcut’s or may something to enable it i don’t know and no one is telling me that simple shortcut of move, rotation etc how to enable them because some shortcuts i know but they don’t working after pressing

[@AbrahamSayago]

@@harshitjain2463 Consider going over a beginner tutorial. Not saying it's you, but many users jump right into wanting to make these ultra-realistic scenes without even know how to do basic stuff like the operations you mentioned, which are explained in all of the thousands of beginner-level tutorials out there.

[@otoarantes714]

Awesome tutorial, loved how simple and effective you made it all. Cheers!

[@Umaidivy]

Thanks man. spent around 3 hours to find this technique, which I got from you only in KZbin.

[@tarikincefikir]

Berk bey video için teşekkürler, fakat bir eleştirim alacak, eğer hangi tuşlara bastığınızı gösteren plugini aktifleştirirseniz çok daha faydalı olacaktır. Mesela 2:30 daki relative nokta seçimi sonunda ölçeklendirmeyi merkezlemenizi hangi tuş ile yaptığınızı anlayamadım. Başarılarınızın devamını dilerim. Kolaylıklar.

[@building_keevo]

You have no idea what awesomities this has resulted in for me! Thanks soooo much!

[@emreozbek6770]

If I assign a new material with principled bsdf node to sole, there is a lightning difference between the sole and the sky. How did you balanced them?

[@philhojnacki9988]

Great stuff! Would you mind sharing where you DL'ed the HDRI?

[@gonzalomorenoandonaegui2052]

Nice, could you make a tutorial like this but on how to render an aircraft with a HDRI with clouds ?

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

oh that sounds cool! I'm more focussed on car design but if you find the right HDRI with clouds, I think the theory will be the same! You will not need to have shadow, so it is even easier! Just import and HDRI (maybe even without creating the sphere) and done! :)

[@bUildYT]

pritty easy and still effective, wow!

[@simsyroses]

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?????????? THANK YOUUU

[@imsethtwo]

2:30 how did you do that

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

you need to pick 'active element' from the top menu as I show, than S for scale, Z for z axis, 0 (zero) for making it flat :) You can learn detailed from my courses! www.berkkaplan.com

[@zuccedgaming220]

bro result of these so realistic thanks man

[@edrisqudaam1928]

Great work What do u think about nurbs modeling and polygons And when to use nurbs as well as polygons Thank u so much

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

Thanks! I made an overall software comparison in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYS1n2yOgrF-pas Short answer: I almost never use nurbs anymore as a creative designer. Nurbs are more for production process for me. Polygons (let's call it Blender as its my only 3D software for daily use) are for ideation, development of the idea, renders, design proposals, animations..

[@edrisqudaam1928]

@@BerkKaplanDesigner Thank u so much it was useful As u said for perfect smooth surfaces Alias is the best Because if u want to make a good and clean surface in subdiv modeling it takes time and u have to be good enough in modeling to get that great reasult But with Alias it's different Alias made for this "automative" I was using 3dsMax.. Recently moved to blender.... I loved it so much as u It's friendly.. Blender has lots of free addons shortcuts... Open source. Free and u can do with it whatever u want... I started doing car 3d modeling after I learned blender it's easy.. I just love blender 💖 Recently I started learning Alias. Thank u for ur feedback... Means a lot....

[@Petch85]

2:28 I don't understand how he selects that node twice, such that he can scale relativ to this point. I have tried Alt, shift and ctrl (and much more) 🤷‍♂

[@Petch85]

I don't know how he does it, but just after he has done it he show where you can select "active element". So I go to the top menu just one to the right of "Global" and select "active element". Then I select all notes, then using shift I unselect and select one note from the top row. The S for scale and (X,Y,Z) to select the direction. When you are in edit mode, you can use the scale tool from the toolbar on the left, that will show you the origine of the scale function it can be a helpful tool to see what is happening. But selecting "active element" at the top (Transform Pivot Point) is the main thing.

[@ostroom]

Pretty impressive that with simple HDRI you can set a good scene. Gj!

[@Nikhilesh9807]

Suggest a website for free race track hdri

[@allcaps3584]

Thanks!! Useful tip. I have a question though for my use - What if it's an interior scene and you have to place an object on say coffee table / bookshelf / side table, etc.? How do you flatten the bottom of the sphere then? Taking it one step further, what if there are 2, 3 such surfaces at different heights? What is the solution then?

[@RobertoRibeiro1983]

Thank you for the excelent video my friend, I'm also in love with Blender and was looking for tuts like this!

[@akhileshd2016]

Definitely going to try this for my product renders. Thanks for making this tutorial!

[@gibbzy4857]

im having a big deal with creating shadows part, when setting up principled shader on the duplicated and assgned material to create shadows all of the floor goes black and not even playing with other values to make it blend with the enviroment works, happens to any HDRI i try, no matter how bright the HDRI is the floor goes black, it also messes up with the floor perspective between to the rest of the scene, like its all clipping and mirrored not following the rest, did i missed something there? PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!

[@Wolf-4D]

Thank you for showing this interesting approach to doing this. I can't really see the advantage though over doing it without that additional sphere as it doesn't seem to make things easier or faster or more controllable, for that matter. A shadow catcher is easy and fast enough to create, and the environment texture, like in your video, often needs to be scaled anyway. It seems to require just as much, if not more, fiddling around to get it to look right. The different texture color will, in many cases, be an issue. Unfortunately you're not showing how to fix that. If you need to rotate the background, it would be helpful to be able to link that extra sphere to the background HDRI or vice versa in order to avoid additional work.

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

Thanks a lot for your comment! I think the biggest advantage is for animations. Without the mesh environment, only with shadow catcher, animation will not work. But directly after this tutorial I did this animation: kzbin.infoUVBUEFldNSY?feature=share and with basic rotations/camera movements it looks really good in my opinion. About the different texture color part: solution is using a wide gradient mask betweek 2 materials so it will not be that sharp. But in this tutorial I didn't want to go so complicated, keeping it more beginner/intermediate level is helpful to more people. If there will be requests, I can do advanced version as well. Cheers! :)

[@CGcelestial]

also just a shadow catcher won't work. using just a shadow catcher with an hdri isn't enough as cycles gives weird illuminations due to the transparent mesh of the shadow catcher. that's also why Berk probably added in the extra sphere, and for animation like he said.

[@CGcelestial]

@@BerkKaplanDesigner Thank you so much for the tutorial mate :D can't wait to do an animation

[@Wolf-4D]

@@BerkKaplanDesigner Thanks for your explanations. That does make sense. I think you did mention animation in the video, but I ignored that part because I only do stills. It's an interesting technique anyway and I'll give it a try some time.

[@tothemoon7438]

I cant undurstand the point of world hdri, cause it gives zero light to the object inside the UV-sphere. Can I somehow change the strength of light on the texuture of UV-sphere?

[@MaxisMBQ]

Learnt a lot from you Berk! Thank you!

[@YasinIamanzadeh-ru7mr]

pls make a video about adjusting the colors that you said at the end.

[@TheLadOfMad]

Man this video was super helpful!!! Thank you so much!

[@draconchikebetpaffosa7486]

Scale z aces 0 don’t working help!!!

[@skycladsquirrel]

Change the noise threshold to 1.00 in Cycles. Renders way faster. Great video.

[@dancexr]

What do you do when there are close up objects in the hdri map? I saw peoples' renders with a parking garage hdri that has many pillars and they have no distortion at all. I wonder if they recreate the pillars in 3D...

[@JeirYoung]

how to adjust the color in photoshop? I need this excellent course.

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

I use camera raw filter option in photoshop and do my adjustments there. You can see more on that in my Photoshop Course: www.berkkaplan.com/courses/photoshop

[@herseyiizleyenadam2553]

Life Saver Tutorial! Thank you so much. Türkçe devam edicem ürünlerin etrafında kamerayla pan yaptığım animasyonlar yapıyorum. Normal hdri kullanınca kamera hareket ettikçe gölgeler kımıl kımıl oluyor. HDRI, kamerayı merkez aldığı için kamera hareket ettikçe hdri da yer değiştirmiş oluyor, çöp gibi render çıkıyordu. Tam aradığım çözüm bu olmuş. Keşke bunu addona çevirebilicek kadar yazılım bileydim. Her eve lazım bi çalışma çok teşekkürler.

[@Andriundery]

why it is not just like as a basic feature like 1 click button, in vray it just 1 click option long ago

[@Demonleonardo]

Berk Kaplan, very nice to meet you, I learned from one of your game design courses, and now I am making a game, it requires me to ask some questions about how to design car panels and car center console, will you have free time to answer my questions

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

Hi, thanks! I don't have a game design course but if you mean the Blender course, please contact me as anwer to emails. So I will be sure to see your message. Thanks!

[@heroicmachine2716]

Thanks berk abi👍 I was also going to render my car in 2-3 days, hope it will help me ;)

[@abircanogz]

Merhabar Berk hocam, oldukça faydalı bir video olmuş ellerinize sağlık.Haddime değil ama hangi tuşlara bastığınızı gösteren bir plug-in kullanırsanız oldukça iyi olur gibi duruyor. Bir de Sphere'In alt kısmını HDRI material olmasına rağmen gri kalıyor sizce neden olabilir? Faceleri flip yaptım ama olmadı.

[@-SKULL-]

there is no sphere projection in blender 4.0, pls help

[@CGcelestial]

This is so awesome ahhh i was looking for this. Thank you so much. Can you please make a more advanced tutorial? For me, nowadays every detail In my renders matter.

[@SportzCar]

Yesss sirrr

[@CGcelestial]

@@SportzCar XD

[@virtualcannara2302]

Thanks for this useful tip. I have looked long and hard to find a way to anchor my cars to the ground. Can't wait to try it out.

[@zan7756]

Where do you get the car model?

[@JW4NE]

awesome tutorial keep up the good work

[@NillerVision]

Nice workaround. Eevee really needs a transparent shadow catcher though.

[@johnbriggs7728]

could I just invert the normals instead of setting the scale to negative?

[@AspectCars]

can you teach me how to do this 3:10

[@saultrujillo4629]

Hi, Good morning, i have a problem with the pink texture, but i don´t know what this means? I wait for your answer.

[@thomas7726]

This occurs when Blender fails to locate the texture image

[@z.o.m.u.l.z.o.m.u.l]

thank you for world texture hack. i wonder why did you change UV to Object in texture coordinate.

[@AlphaKilo09]

Thanks for this video! You made it more easy for me to understand.

[@dannyaustin84]

Excellent 👌 this has given me some good ideas of how to integrate HDR and 3D content together. Bravo

[@HammerSC__]

Is the car a renault concept?

[@mastersullivan]

Oh my gosh! How helpful. Thanks so much.

[@gowthamsaimachani596]

This tutorial is really awesome sir it really helps

[@gowthamsaimachani596]

Please make the tutorial of adjustments sir it really help in renders

[@CheerleaderTW5566]

Many many thanks! Love you!

[@CritterBF3]

When setting a HDRi up this way with cycles, the emssion on the dome material is causing a lot of fireflies to be added to my render. Anyone found a solution to this? I dont really want any lighting from the dome itself, rather have it purely from the World hdri as it gives a way cleaner and faster render.

[@Chiketyan]

Somehow, the object reflection results are totally different between the HDRI world and the sphere. Also , when you go from flat to sphere, you get a completely different result. (All on the ground)　Unless this problem can be solved, this method cannot be used universally. Thank you.

[@PopcornSticker]

Every single dome I create Has weird stripes, likke if the image was cut. I'm literally spending days trying to figure that out

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

Did you try using subdivision + shade smooth on the dome you created?

[@rsunghun]

very nice tutorial. Thank you so much!

[@heathsledger]

bros a wizard

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

thats actually amazing

[@MahckMedia]

Jesussss. This is how people do it lolll. Appreciate this! TY

[@golfboy7156]

nice but how bout putting a shadow catcher plane under it?

[@peterand63]

super as always Berk

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

Thanks a lot Peter! :) 🤩

[@ericxonsamuels4681]

was actually working on a car render today this was quite helfull

[@Ali-sh3tg]

Do you know how we can make hdri fit with eeve ?

[@Ali-sh3tg]

I have a ocean ... How to match could hdr with ocean

[@Grindelon]

For the shadows of the car can you make a plane to work as a shadow catcher? or in this case it doesn't work like that?

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

I prefer to use shadow catcher for backplate renders like this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWSrfGB3rb2lpZo

[@robertYoutub]

After 20 years, the good old projection hemisphere from Mental Ray or Vray 1.0 is still a secret trick… funny.

[@agneya]

This was so helpful thank you so much

[@DamienAtkinson]

Works amazing

[@muratmertgorgul]

hello, can we add motion blurr to hdri ?

[@BerkKaplanDesigner]

Hey, motion blur needs a motion so it is added to everything as long as the camera moves :) Or maybe you can rotate the hdri to do that. This video might help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKDGeq1_Zc18e5o

[@AArtfat]

Nice tutor!!! Ty

[@TallFrenchy]

This is epic 🎉

[@g0d182]

There's got to be a plugin for this workflow Thanks for the video albeit Berk

[@g0d182]

Nevermind, think I found a github plugin kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn61aZKmlMeVlac

[@in3432]

Brilliant tutorial. I have been doing it wrong all this time hahahahaaa.

[@elpathdigital4391]

Thaaaanks!! 🫶👊

[@mastart4971]

very smart, thank you.

[@cornerofthemoon]

God this is a lot of trouble. There are so many 3D packages that can do this by pressing one button. But thank you for the video or I never would have figured it out.

[@Boipelo]

Thanks!

[@filmeEffect]

me inscrevi só por esse vídeo

[@umarraees6002]

Easiest way I havent ever seen

[@10MinuteEditing]

Helpfull

[@rumeysaozcan1421]

türkçe alt yazı ekler misiniz

[@anubhavrathore47]

My cycles ain't responding same as yours..... Though I followed you completely

[@pizzathehut2264]

I was wondering how people did this!

[@Nikhilesh9807]

Messed up right here, no further expectations 🥴🥴

[@cedricvillani8502]

Our enyoiments have sfhear’s and bears and ssppearrs 😂😂

[@PD-ws4td]

You sound like you could do the Borat accent easily lmao

[@mediarocker]

great