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Mark321 Colorado USA Posts: 67	Hi everyone, I've been learning "HOW" to import HDR images for the "environments" and while I'm currently importing an image (1000px X 1000px, which is one quarter the file size allowed) it is taking a LOOOOONNNNNGGG time. Is this normal? Mark "Art really can have a purpose."
	Posted: May 28, 2015 4:07 pm	Details E-Mail
Skybase 2D/3D Generalist Posts: 4025 Filters: 76	Yeup. In general unless you're really trying to get reflections out of FilterForge's surface, it's highly recommended to use small HDRIs instead. Something like 250px by width is quite large enough for the effect. If anything, if you really want to invest in high quality reflections out of FF you can export normals out and use that to drive reflections in compositing softwares like Nuke, Natron, etc etc which have workflows for that type of thing.
	Posted: May 29, 2015 2:39 am	Details E-Mail
Mark321 Colorado USA Posts: 67	Thanks Skybase! It worked in minutes instead of hours. Now, if only there were some way to REMOVE one of these images from the environments list. Anybody? "Art really can have a purpose."
	Posted: May 29, 2015 11:58 am	Details E-Mail
CFandM ForgeSmith Posts: 4761 Filters: 266	Here is where they are located in Windows...Close Filter Forge first..Then delete the file from the folder listed....Of course your user name will be different.. Stupid things happen to computers for stupid reasons at stupid times!
	Posted: May 29, 2015 3:08 pm	Details E-Mail
Mark321 Colorado USA Posts: 67	Thank you, CFandM! It worked like magic! "Art really can have a purpose."
	Posted: May 30, 2015 10:54 pm	Details E-Mail

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