More HDRI Showrooms
This is a pack of 7 maps made for taking photorealistic pictures of vehicles, props, or anything you can think of. How it works is that all maps have a sphere cut in half with a 360º panoramic HDRI texture placed on it, we have been looking and testing several HDRI textures perfect for maps and we have selected the ones that looked and worked the best.
All maps have HDR and LDR cubemaps (LDR meaning HDR off). You can turn off HDR in any moment, because in some maps like the sunny ones they look much better with HDR off. (To activate/disable HDR, go to options, video, advanced and change the HDR setting, without HDR means LDR)
Some maps in LDR might not properly load the cubemaps, to avoid this issue load the maps with HDR on and then when you are in the game disable HDR so it’s LDR.
And of course, inspired by TDM’s showroom maps and Assetto Corsa’s showrooms
All maps are located in ”Photorealistic Showrooms” category, all names start with ”phshwrm”
- Italian square – An old italian town set in the middle of a plaza in a sunset.
- Japan Underpass – Set in a japanese district under a highway bridge.
- Muddy road – A random european country road set in some hills.
- Parking – In the middle of a parking followed by a cloudy sky and a humid environment.
- Small road – An european small road in the middle of a countryfield.
- Spanish night – Set in a plaza of Calahonda a tourist spanish town set in Andalusia, surrounded by some buildings and a supermarket.
- Sunset road – A road surrounded by some trees in the sunset.
And more to come in the future!
We are accepting suggestions for future maps, plus if you have an HDRI image that can look good as a map, let us know!
– When taking pictures with cars, we suggest using the prop named 19tahoe_shadow from this vehicle , disable collision and put it below the car to give more realism to the picture by adding a fake shadow, we also recommend the Resize tool for resizing the prop so it matches the car.
– Already mentioned before, but sunny maps such as Muddy road and Small road look better in LDR than HDR.
– We also recommend using DOF when doing pictures at certain angles.
– To add a little more of realism, use this AO effect to make props look better.
– Slight adjustments using Photoshop (or any other image software) are also a plus to make it look even better.
- Dustinobot: Making the maps and everything related to it such as ilumination, cubemaps, compiling maps, addon presentation helper and helping in the selection of HDRI showrooms.
- ItzDannio25: Porting the sphere models with their respective HDRI texture into Gmod, tweaking colors HDRI images (mostly HDR), addon presentation helper and helping in the selection of HDRI showrooms.
- Xeno: Helping in the selection of HDRI showrooms.
- Sphere model taken from Assetto Corsa
- Free HDRI maps taken from PolyHeaven[polyhaven.com] and HDRMaps[hdrmaps.com] websites.
the idea came suddently from one day to another lol
