
This equirectangular HDRI environment map provides realistic night lighting for outdoor park scenes with warm and cool light sources. The environment map captures a nocturnal park setting featuring a paved pathway flanked by mature deciduous trees and low-lying shrubs. The lighting composition creates a distinct contrast between the warm, saturated glow of orange-toned street lamps and the cool, deep blue hues of the night sky and distant artificial building lights. This high-dynamic-range file retains the complex shadows cast beneath the tree canopies and along the ground plane, providing a naturalistic light distribution suitable for rendering exterior spaces that require authentic dusk or night-time atmospheric conditions and balanced color temperature.
The download is a 7 MB file containing a 2K equirectangular high-dynamic-range environment map, ready to load as dome or world lighting in Blender, 3ds Max, SketchUp renderers, Unreal Engine and D5.
To integrate this environment map, load the.hdr file into the background or world environment slot of your rendering engine. Adjust the exposure and rotation settings to align the primary street lamp light source with your scene's composition. Because this map contains high-dynamic-range data, it will effectively drive global illumination and generate realistic reflections on surfaces within your project, eliminating the need for manual placement of multiple point lights to achieve a natural night-time aesthetic.
This asset is suited for exterior visualisations of residential developments, public park projects, and urban landscape designs requiring a night-time context. It works effectively for scenes featuring pathways, seating areas, or modern building facades that rely on artificial lighting. Professionals searching for night-time environment maps, outdoor lighting HDRIs, or park lighting scenarios will find this file useful for establishing mood and realistic light falloff in architectural renderings, particularly when paired with high-quality landscape vegetation and exterior furniture models.
Blaubeuren Night Park HDRI Environment Map
Free
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What changed in 1.0
Initial release.
Public domain. Use commercially, modify and redistribute. No attribution required.
Covers 1 seat.