All HDRIs are now CC-BY

Previously my HDRIs were all licensed as CC-BY-SA, but some folks have pointed out to me that that’s not very nice for commercial users because it means that they have to license their work as CC-BY-SA too.

Obviously that’s not cool.

So instead, consider all HDRIs posted on this site to simply be CC-BY, meaning:

  • You can use them for anything.
  • You don’t have to license any work that uses an HDRI as Creative Commons.
  • I’d appreciate it if you give me credit and link back here when you use one of them, but I know that can be a bit annoying sometimes, so I won’t mind if you don’t do that. But if you share them around, be sure to tell people where you got them so that they can discover more :)

Easier Fresnel Node

I just happened to come across this on blendswap, which then pointed me to a youtube video that shows how to set up a node group that gives you some much easier (and probably more realistic) control over fresnel reflections, taking roughness and minimum reflectance into account :)

The author of the video didn’t provide a link to download the node group, so I figured I’d copy his setup and upload it here.

Download node group

Licence: CC0

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