Hasta La Motion!

To clarify, I have absolutely no idea how to successfully build an environment lit scene as of yet.
I recently spotted an application called http://www.hdrlightstudio.com/, which looks incredible!
Perhaps I’m barking up the wrong tree here, but it looks to offer a great way to build your lighting system externally with or without HDRIs, and then export an EXR or HDRI to bring into (in my case) Nuke to use as an environment light map perhaps?

However, even if this package does exactly that and is perfect for my needs, unfortunately it’s Windows only. and I’m a Mac guy

If anyone has any advice as to what work flow I could adopt to start learning about environment lighting, I would be eternally grateful.

Many many many thanks in advance!
Chaz

I was checking some of the internal scripts found in Nuke.. I came across nfb_this.tcl in the plugins folder. Not sure what is this for ?? looks like nfb (network flipbook)

Can someone throw some light on this??

Cheers,

So what I did:
– created a ground plane (1×1 segments)
– created a box (30m x 1m x 1m) – (1x1x1 segments)
– created a plane for the cloth (30m x 1m) and a lot of segments (300×50)

Local simulation – allow it to fall. Pulled some faces with live drag to so it shouldn’t be that uniform. Already the cloth is not standing 100% on the box, it has some weird intersections that shouldn’t have happened.

Next, I want to add a wind, so I keyframe it, add the force and let it simulate again, but the results aren’t the expected ones. Weird intersections and, on the other hand, the wind not really taking action on the whole cloth.

So, the question is: are there any parameters to tweak in order to get a better sim? Is there another way to simulate cloth except the in-house Cloth modifier? Reactor? Or some good plugin I might’ve missed?

Thanks.