anupaum opened this issue on Dec 13, 2025 ยท 9 posts
hborre posted Mon, 15 December 2025 at 11:36 PM
It is worth experimenting with a combination of lights and HDRI to strike a pleasing balance in your renders. Offsetting the illumination too much in either direction will make the scene appear unnatural. Find the best high-quality HDRI, 4K or higher, if the app can handle it. Use images with a full tonal range. There may be instances where images skew the color balance, so be prepared to provide adequate lighting to counter the imbalance.
The Superfly render below demonstrates a scene lit with an HDRI and an infinite light set at 10% intensity and shadows to 50%. The material shaders for the model were quickly converted to PBR, and Ambient Occlusion was added to enhance additional shadowing. I used a Blackbody node to convert the lighting temperature to 10,000 Kelvin, a more natural way to introduce realistic lighting to Superfly renders.
