Blender HDRI Lighting for Beginners

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[@doa_8]

Thanks

[@oliverhiggins8376]

No problem!

[@deathblade909]

HEy loving your videos. QUick question. I come from architecture and at this point in my career im only used to using Revit or sketchup, rhino too. In blender do you recommend to do simple extrudsions for walls or to use some of the many plugins. Is there any window and door type of addons that make the buildign process faster?

[@oliverhiggins8376]

If you can find plugins to make your modelling quicker I think you should use them! I model with simple boxes and extrude them cuz that’s how I started doing it and I got really efficient at it, but anything works as long as you get the outcome you want :)

[@SabaTsikolia]

very informative and good tutorial. thank

[@oliverhiggins8376]

Glad it was helpful!

[@djurovicgiorgio]

Great video!
I’ve just stumbled onto your channel it’s super informative, can’t wait to dive into your vids deeper.
I have a question, whenever I use high resolution HDRIs to use as a backdrop I run into VRAM memory issues! I usually use the simplify tool to cap texture sizes and stay below my VRAM limit! Is there a way to exclude the environment texture from being resized? Do you have a way around this?

[@oliverhiggins8376]

I haven’t actually used the simplify tool before- firstly what is your VRAM amount? I’d recommend going with possibly an 8k hdri rather that 16k, but also maybe look into the blender sky option which may be more suitable if you want to use your graphics card. I actually don’t render with my gpu but rather my CPU, because I only have 8gb VRAM, but I have 64gb ram which handles whatever I throw at it, and it’s far cheaper than VRAM

[@djurovicgiorgio]

@@oliverhiggins8376 Oh Interesting! I've also got 8GB VRAM, only 16GB of Ram on my Alienware laptop.. Not sure itll be enough, but maybe ill start using my CPU on overnight renders with the HDRIs, thanks for the idea

[@oliverhiggins8376]

@@djurovicgiorgio yeah so if you want to get into archviz I highly recommend getting at least 32 gb ram and your cpu doesnt need to be super great as long as you have the ram, it will just take a while to render but at least you can render.

[@djurovicgiorgio]

@@oliverhiggins8376 I can actually upgrade the ram on my laptop which is cool! I've been looking at ways to get more out of my machine, and discovered render layers! I believe splitting up my renders into chunks would help get around the VRAM bottle neck at best, or the overall ram bottle neck at worst! Do you have any experience rendering like that and compiling in Blender? Could be a cool video! I know I'd watch it!

[@oliverhiggins8376]

Hey I havent used render layers before that sounds like a great way to reduce the bottleneck! I will do some research and make a video on it. Thanks :) @@djurovicgiorgio

[@asentertainment1998]

That brick pattern opening is cool , how did you model it in blender ?

[@oliverhiggins8376]

Thanks! Check out my glowbox behind the scenes for all of that information.

[@user-zu1ed3pq6q]

That's brilliant Thanks 👏👏✨ Is there any chance to make beginner tutorials in blender for arch viz?

[@oliverhiggins8376]

I’m making a free course for beginners at the moment! Dropping episode 1 in a few days, so sub and be ready for that :)

[@user-zu1ed3pq6q]

​@@oliverhiggins8376 Thanks a lot for that I'm waiting ✨

[@oliverhiggins8376]

@@user-zu1ed3pq6q Its done! Check my community posts.

[@usamam2227]

​@@oliverhiggins8376can we use hdri lightning but use image for Background???

[@blastersekla]

Is there a point using a HDRI over blender skytexture ? it just feels like having less control

[@oliverhiggins8376]

It’s just a more realistic cloud and atmosphere and also you have the beauty of the backdrop that matches the sky when you use an hdri which you can’t get with the blender sky

[@marvelettes6064]

May I know your pc specification?

[@oliverhiggins8376]

64gb ram, i77700k, RTX4070

[@sdumo59]

your mic is always low bro

[@oliverhiggins8376]

Hey can you check out my latest vid and let me know if it’s still low?