I actually tried moving the hdri "around" but wasnt able to get it where I needed it to be for full effect. Im positive that the lights are taking away from the deired "look"... I did set it to flip horizontally, and when I did do that, the enitre scene became too dark. I set to tile and as seamless, still not getting the light right.

Outside of flipping and tiling, how else can we better manipulate the hdr to fit/light our scene?!?

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