Vray HDRI Cubic doesnt seem to work

[acjwalker]

I am setting up a hdri vray environment in max 2009 design. It is a cubic environment map so In the material slot of my vray hdri i insert the hdr file and select cubic but i still seem to see the blue areas which means it isn't reading the flattened cube shape of the hdr file.

 

I have some images to explain better:

 

This is how it renders, it is in the environment and refletion slot in vray 1.5 sp3.

 

 

 

This is what the HDRI file look like.

 

 

 

And this is my material slot:

 

 

As you can see i have it set to cubic but it still reflects the bue from the HDR Map.

 

I havetried rotating it. Cannot seem to get it right.

 

Can anyone help?

Edited April 7, 2009 by acjwalker

[acjwalker]

cgtalk just said:

 

I think your hdri its HC or Horizontal Cross map, if i understand correctly its differs from cube map that vray expects.

 

anyone know how to rectify this?

 

Here is a link to the page:

 

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=5794879#post5794879

[Stephen Thomas]

I'm pretty sure Vray HDRI only works with the vertical cross cubic format, do you have that version too? If not since it's a pretty random pattern you can just load it into photoshop, rotate it, then save it out again.

[acjwalker]

how much would i need to rotate it by so vray can correctly understand it?

[Stephen Thomas]

90 degrees clockwise, should work.

[acjwalker]

thanks alot buddy will try it when i get to work tomorrow.