Combination of Sky Light AND Hdri possible

[Charless]

I love the shadows generated by the Sky light and the Reflexions in the windows of the HDRI (in my ArchViz projects).
Is this possible in any way?

 

[ZooHead]

It seems the HDRI disables the Sky Light, so I don't think so.
If you put the HDRI image on a huge sphere?...

 

[Charless]

It seems the HDRI disables the Sky Light, so I don't think so.
If you put the HDRI image on a huge sphere?...

Sphere; I tried that does not work

 

[Charless]

Maybee there is a way to make a fake sunlight? by using one of the scene lights?

 

[Charless]

Difference between HDRI and Sky Light (I kranked up the reflex of the glass material to exaggerate the effects

 

[ZooHead]

If your using Falcon you can get more out of some HDRIs by changing their Clamp Value. (0= full on, 10 is default)
I would try 500, or 1000. If it's an HDRI taken outside in sunlight you may not need the Sky Light.

 

[misoversaturated]

Maybee there is a way to make a fake sunlight? by using one of the scene lights?

Yes, take the distant light, add softness and a little orange tint to the color.
Clamp your HDRI to 1 in order to avoid shadow conflict between the two.
Here's an example with the default Oldtown HDRI:

 

[Charless]

Yes, take the distant light, add softness and a little orange tint to the color.
Clamp your HDRI to 1 in order to avoid shadow conflict between the two.
Here's an example with the default Oldtown HDRI:

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WOW!

 

[Swizl]

Apparently it was possible to use both in v6 but not v7. Martin said it wasn’t physically accurate (or something like that) to use both. Misoversaturated has a nice work around though. The ingenuity f the people in this forums is pretty great.

 

[Charless]

So the combi of HDRI and Sky Light turns out fine