So you CAN use HDR Images in Blender, HOWEVER, it won’t light the scene for you and is mostly reduced to just a spherical map. But it does give for some interesting reflections for materials and does add some life to your scene. Currently Blender 2.5 doesnt support Yafary or Lux so this is the best I could do inside Blender 2.5 with the internal renderer (Blender 2.49 seems to be screwing up on me which is really annoying). Anyways have a look at what I have achieved so far with a robot I modelled in about an hour (yeah its rubbish, but you’ll get the idea of what you can)
She kinda looks like Eve from Wall-E. Friggin love that movie


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