V-Ray | Custom HDRI DOME Setup - For better Results

[@JonasNoell]

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[@guyberryman5226]

amazing tutorial but is it possible for corona engine?

[@JonasNoell]

Sure, there is nothing really too special about it.

[@EEAEGYPT-j7z]

Unfortunately, I cannot subscribe to purchase lessons. I wish I could

[@giovannicaloi7447]

once grant warwick left...you are one of the few 3d artist worth watching. lovely done jonas

[@gneiis]

Yeah, but where did Grant go?

[@giovannicaloi7447]

@gneiis he started few years ago a game/app project called illuvium..u can search on utube u Will find some interviews he made also

[@giovannicaloi7447]

@@gneiis he started few years ago with an app/game called illuvium..you can find some of his interviews regarding why he left archiviz/cgi also on utube

[@nonenone8602]

He and his brother got involved in crypto and they are doing games or nft illuvium ​@@gneiis

[@richardminhle]

@@gneiisGrant jumped on the crypto bandwagon and has become millionaire along with his Warwick brother. The man doesn’t need to model all night so he can eat like us all.

[@jimmwagner]

Thanks Jonas! Your videos always highlight how much I don't know about V-Ray :) I use mostly HDRI lighting so I will be updating my process to use this moving forward.

[@JonasNoell]

Great to hear!

[@jakedenham]

Wow, Jonas! this is epic. thanks for sharing!

[@uriahhill9675]

Amazing Jonas! Chaos needs to hire you.

[@leonleon51]

This is awesome! Well done mate. Looks soooo much better.

[@Maximize-3D]

Great video! Thank you for the in depth explanations. Something like this should have been released by Chaos along with V-Ray.

[@ManjuDas-rc2lk]

best tutorial i have ever seen !

[@gkndogan]

This is madness... You are unbelievable!

[@Hung_Nguyen_90]

Madness? This is SPARTA!

[@adampierre8319]

Thanks Jonas! You're amazing!

[@allenwang7207]

crazy man

[@michelrigaud9552]

wow ! thanks for this very impressive demo

[@elldesignz]

Great technique ! Very sharp skillz....

[@wonderboy75]

Seriously cool tutorial!! ❤❤

[@andrewotter8163]

Great tutorial. Now I need to try and translate what I just learned and reproduce it in maya/vray.

[@JonasNoell]

You can do it! 😀

[@Kreative3DMedia]

Outstanding content!

[@dimitry.schmidt]

Hi jonas, First of all, thank you very much for your highly insightful videos. The content of your videos, compared to many other channels, is always refreshing and informative. The only thing I would wish for in your videos is, especially when it comes to materials, to show examples using the Slate Material Editor. Otherwise, it can be very difficult to follow along or resolve issues if one doesn’t really use or is unfamiliar with the Compact Material Editor. I hope it might be possible to consider this feedback at some point. Please don't take it as critisism and keep up you good work!

[@JonasNoell]

Hi thanks for the feedback. I normally use the slate editor whenever the shading gets a bit more complex. But in this case I felt it is very simple so I normally use the Compact Editor as the Slate Editor takes away too much real estate on the screen which is limited

[@alirezabelon1448]

Great video❤

[@OriTeGi]

wow @,.@ genius ~!!!

[@saeedzare2410]

Awesome tut

[@Juan_Alvaro]

Nice! This is kind of Ian Hubert's technique.

[@JonasNoell]

Hi, yes the part about the delighting is inspired by his workflow

[@ciprianandrus1544]

Nice one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@shreyashmore1824]

Hi, can u please tell how to do the dome geometry UV cordinates my image is flipped and also i couldnt match the dome image to get map properly on the sphere i tried everything Thank u yout tutorials are so awesome and fun to watch 🤩😍 i learned most of the vray stuff from u your awesome ❣

[@krzysztofbogdanowicz4543]

Great technique ! The only difficulty for me is that I do not use this material editor. I used to use slate one which is also a standard for Unreal Engine (all nodes are visible).

[@JonasNoell]

I use that also whenever the setup gets a bit more complex, but I think in this case its fairly simple. Actually the classic editor has many advantages compared to the node editor and it is so much faster to use and handle a lot of materials.

[@mohamedsabry6871]

amazing

[@caiocravero]

It's amazing tutorial! thank u for that Can u talk about how dome geometry was made? i'm trying to reproduce, but the ground got some kind of distortion... I'm going to try to support your Patreon channel next month and catch the full scene... but I wanted to try it myself first

[@chrisrose77]

Did you figure this out? I'm having the same issue.

[@caiocravero]

@chrisrose77 You need to apply a UVW Map modifier as spherical mode to the dome to have the ground correctly mapped.

[@chrisrose77]

@@caiocravero Thanks! I'll give that a go.

[@mateuszswierkowski7936]

Just wondering. Could you use this workflow on a tracked camera footage to match light better instead of of using just hdri?

[@JonasNoell]

Not sure what you mean exactly. This workflow requires spherical mapping inputs, so I assume your camera footage is not compatible.

[@JstMst]

I wonder if it can be used for product scenes as well? Or would the dome technique be good only for outdoor areas?

[@JonasNoell]

Can be used in the same way but if you have an interior hdri then normally in there is quite close to the camera so you may see distortions as you are just mapping the image on a simple dome geometry. The dome approach works best if the environment in the hdri are far away like for example on a big parking lot or something similar

[@JstMst]

@@JonasNoell Thank you for your answer. I understood what you meant very clearly. Then you had an old tutorial video for the product. You did it with a chair as an example. I will try to create a scene with that kind of background and lighting. I wish you a good day.

[@yinon_tal]

thank you!

[@BASSAMALZAIDY-m7t]

Why ACES cannot run on version 7

[@JonasNoell]

Can

[@erikmochammad7157]

You didn't explain it from the beginning, the dome geometry image is suddenly there can I have the file, please ?

[@JonasNoell]

If you watched the video you know where to get it

[@JoseCastillo-bc4cy]

Good tutorial. The material for the dome setup i need to see it in the slate material as nodes with a final node that should be give as material of the 3d dome. ¿The dome whas map with Unwrap UVW before the material was applied? ....Yes, would prefer to watch all materials made in Slate Material (as nodes) and the procedure need for UV mapping the dome. Thanks.

[@kostasfassoulas6915]

Awesome! Is it possible in vray to be done the 3 sun (sundog) effect? (also as seen in tv series "the Terror" on opening title) ? Would love to see a tutorial about this!!

[@JonasNoell]

Ehhh, no not natively. But I also have never seen this effect in real life 😀

[@kostasfassoulas6915]

@@JonasNoellWhat is really awesome about your tutorials is this: looking through some KZbin tuts, just saw a tut of yours "V-Ray | How to FAKE a SUN | CHEATING atmospheric effects using ANIMATED TEXTURES" and I can say that you already have done it, at time 24:30! I'll use your bending technique and try to make the refracted "sundogs" effect with some comping at post! Thank you once again!

[@JonasNoell]

@ Haha that’s why I said ‘natively’ it’s not possible but with using some creative techniques you can achieve pretty much anything 😀 Happy to hear it was useful in your case, even though in this tutorial it was a different use case. But that’s what makes you pro, being able to adapt and combine different techniques to reach the required task. 👍

[@shineoooolol]

May I ask where did you get HDRI map? I remember you introduced a website which has both HDRI and the original photos.

[@abdullahubeyd3060]

thaaanks

[@Crimson_201]

i haven't got to watch the whole thing yet.. will do later tonight. but can i go through this whole process and save it as a "template" so i can later change only the HDRI and the model inside the dome ? or is it more complex than what i initially thought ??

[@JonasNoell]

It shows the process of doing so in the end. You basically just need to update the HDRI in 2 places and adjust the color of the floor, but it’s quite a simple process

[@ytmelo]

this is great! Can I ask you: is this setup suitable for animation? (small camera movements, pans, and so on) ? thank you and keep rocking !!!!

[@JonasNoell]

Sure, as you can see in the beginning I rendered some quick camera movements

[@ytmelo]

@@JonasNoell yes, that's what I imagined, but I preferred to ask just to be sure XD . Thank you very much Jonas.

[@JonDohnson]

Looks awsome! I‘ll try to reproduce it with Blender. The HDRI is great, where is it from?

[@JonasNoell]

I'm planning to release a tutorial about this as well

[@FerryPasschier]

Looks very good. How does that last step translate to Maya? Will there be a Maya scene available in your Patreon too? Cheers!

[@JonasNoell]

I don’t own a Maya license, so I can’t really say how that would translate.

[@FerryPasschier]

@ that's too bad. I'll try and figure it out then, once I'm back home to my PC :)

[@iamski]

Seriously Jonas, I've been following you for a number of years (always telling you you can date my sister) but honestly, how do you figure these techniques out? Is it just intuition and years of understanding all the mechanics of V-Ray or you just things you also uncover overtime? I'm seriously impressed by your ability to discover all these amazing techniques? Also, one last question. In all of your tutorials (including this one) from here on out have ACES on by default or no?

[@JonasNoell]

It’s basically just trying to find ways to optimize a workflow and also taking inspiration of other things that I see in tutorials for other software and so on. Normally my tutorials don’t use Aces by default as it would complicate each tutorial a bit. But Aces can be easily added by using the workflow that I showed in my Aces tutorials

[@iamski]

@@JonasNoell But in this tutorial for transparency reasons, do you have ACES enabled?

[@JonasNoell]

No that’s sRGB

[@BASSAMALZAIDY-m7t]

@@JonasNoell How did you use SRGB and the scene appeared in such wonderful colors?

[@JonasNoell]

@BASSAMALZAIDY-m7t behause of proper tone mapping. Aces just has this built in natively under the hood

[@唐盛-r5n]

好厉害的教程 为什么我的HDIR在半球模型上 总是发生扭曲？需要用到合适的HDIR？适配大小？😒

[@caiocravero]

You need to apply a UVW Map modifier (spherical mode) to the dome to have the ground correctly mapped.

[@EEAEGYPT-j7z]

Did you use acescg vray it in this lesson?

[@JonasNoell]

Nope but would not really change the workflow much

[@EEAEGYPT-j7z]

@@JonasNoell But the colors appear saturated and beautiful

[@JonasNoell]

You need to use the correct Aces workflow. I have tutorial about this in my channel

[@EEAEGYPT-j7z]

@@JonasNoell I know I should use Aces But you say I didn't use it in this scene. So how did the colors appear saturated?

[@Osamah001]

Quick question which graphic card you r running here ?

[@JonasNoell]

That’s a 4090

[@abdullaharshak.n7870]

Your pc spec??

[@JonasNoell]

Threadripper 3990x, RTX 4090, 64GB Ram

[@bahmanemamyari]

♥♥

[@nickcifarelli8887]

chaos should pay you to program

[@llih0074]

Before watching Jonas's video: I am a 15-year VRay expert. After watching Jonas's video: I know nothing about VRay.

[@JonasNoell]

Haha we are all still learning

[@ciprianandrus1544]

Can you do tutorials for corona rendering, car scenes?

[@JonasNoell]

Maybe once I own a license for Corona again