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Published: 2020-03-18 14:34:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 1681; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 0
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How to get a HDR-Map for DAZ Studio from SpaceEngine PRO (store.steampowered.com/app/102… )?
► I would love to share my HDR-Maps, but I don't know where to store 512mb per file
Requirements
Preparations
- Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SpaceEngine\config, open "main-user.cfg"
- Set VideoMemorySize and RAMSizeMax to a fitting number, it is, for some reason, set to only 2048 by default, I used 8192 for Video Memory and 32768 for RAMSizeMax
- Install Intel(R) Texture Works Plugin as descripted on the download-page
In SpaceEngine
- Start the "game", get used to the controls
- Adjust your grafic settings
- Under preferences, top general (first entry), shoose dds as screenshot format
- Find your motive, that is, the part of space you need
- Go to display (Screen Symbol left corner in the HUD)
- You will see four choices (perspective, fish eye, cylincrical, cube map), choose "cylindrical", this is the equiplanar projection
- Disable Dithering (!) - else you will have artifacts in the screenshot
- Look if the result would fit you, if not, adjust
- Set rendering solution, spikes solution, and, if you are dealing with spacewarp, also warp, to 4096
- Set from full screen to window mode
- Set window size to 8196x8196 - yes, this will slow your mashine down
- Press F11 to screenshot
- Wait a bit, leave program via alt + F4
- Screenshots will appear in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SpaceEngine\screenshots named scr000001.dds
Photoshop
- Open Screenshot using the plugin
- Load Transparence as Alpha-Channel
- Set file to 32bit
- Use whatever you need, for example HDR Toning, to adjust the results.
- OPTIONAL: I found it useful to use different manipulations, like equilize histogram or gamma coorection and combine them in a new file
- Save as EXR
DAZ
- Open new file
- Set EXR as HDR-Map in the render settings
- Adjust Gamma correction and other parameters
- render
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Comments: 9
Thank you for sharing yours discoveries my friend
SpaceEnginePro can be useful for me as a great background for space opera works
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Thank you
Before buying Pro, try the "normal" version 
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Yes, I'll follow your advice, due to my low Ram memory I have to be cautious. Yes, I'm not working on Iray so I don't need a super realistic resolution.
When I saw your avatar in front of the space background I was thinking why not add your avatar into your next Romulan project as a promo for example.
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Thats acutally a funny idea
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Yes, I'll follow your advice, due to my low Ram memory I have to be cautious. Yes, I'm not working on Iray so I don't need a super realistic resolution.
When I saw your avatar in front of the space background I was thinking why not add your avatar into your next Romulan project as a promo for example.
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Breathtaking outlook... how did you get there?
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