For the past few months I’ve been working on a dedicated website for all my HDR panoramas called HDRI Haven. In preparation for its launch next week, I’ve got a little gift for you
Usually I only give away small HDRIs (2048 pixels wide or less), but this time you can have five giant HDRIs (16384 x 8192 in resolution). All of them contain the highest dynamic range possible, meaning they’ll give you perfectly realistic lighting right off the bat without requiring any complicated node setups.
PS: Sorry for the email form thing, Gumroad is the only decent platform I’ve found that can host these giant files for free without any kind of annoying speed limiter to get you to pay for it. And no, Dropbox and Drive don’t work reliably as hosting platforms, not at this level.
I was wondering: did you know that Andrew’s Skies add-on has a feature for importing your own HDRIs? You need to prepare some addition files (like low res, thumbnail, …) and name them with the add-on convention, but once you have them you can pack them in a zip and install them with 1 or 2 clicks inside Blender.
I mention it because I think you could consider offering the ready-made install zip files for Andrew’s add-on for your paid HDRIs.
The add-on’s website says that the demo version doesn’t have that option, but the 3 demo hdris are installed from a zip… maybe it’s different now (?) . I’ve been posponing testing importing my own hdris, but I’ll give it a try now and let you know.
Cheers!
EDIT: Tested it. It doesn’t work for demo version.
Aaaand I added another 5 HDRIs to the free bundle meaning there are now 10 full-res (16k) HDRIs with up to 24 EVs of dynamic range available for free: https://hdrihaven.com/bundle.php?b=free_bundle
