Creating and Editing Custom HDRI Images for use in Design3D

This tutorial shows how to edit 32 bit per channel HDRI bitmaps in Photoshop. It discusses the difference between 8, 16, and 32bit per channel color and how to work with Photoshop's HDRI color palette. It also discusses how to use this data inside of Design3D.
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Ferns

Ferns are relatively simple plants that may come in handy for architectural renderings. We will create ferns from photographic reference. The logic is the same as for other plants, relying on the stencil channel to avoid explicitly modeling the shape of the fern. The fern shape file is included at the end of the tutorial.
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Weathering Tiles

Tiles are very regular when new, but as time passes, weather can begin to take its toll on the tiles. This tutorial deals with some techniques for weathering tiles and breaking up the regularity by Composing maps and layering textures to create the tiles and the weathering.
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