I only rendered with HDRI. I didn't understand whether I should combine HDRI with normal lighting or not, and if I do, is there a special way I need too set up the lights?
Can you show a pic of the HDRI image your using?
As far as combining HDRI with regular lighting; yes, please do it. Use the other lights you have set up for the scene. HDRI alone wont produce the results your wanting. You can also bump up the intensity of an HDRI image by increasing the color gain located in your image based lighting attributes.
I provided a pic to better explain the process. I have my HDRI at 1.500 for a old project that I did. Default is at 1.000 so experiment with some numbers until the HDRI lighting is to your liking.
hope this helps out.
Last edited by THX1138; 03-09-2008 at 03:19 AM.