Evening Sky HDRI 004 a

Evening Sky HDRI 004 A is a 2K high-dynamic-range environment map providing realistic sunset lighting and reflections for 3D scenes. This high-dynamic-range image captures a clear evening sky at sunset over a countryside landscape. The lighting profile features a low-angle sun, creating warm, directional highlights and long, soft shadows. The environment includes a natural horizon line with subtle vegetation and road infrastructure, ensuring realistic reflections on metallic and glossy surfaces. The 2K resolution offers sufficient detail for background environments and balanced global illumination, maintaining consistent light intensity across the entire 360-degree dome. It is designed to provide accurate colour temperature and luminance values for exterior architectural visualisations requiring a natural, ambient dusk setting.

The download is an 8.9 MB compressed archive 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.

Load this HDRI file directly into the environment or world lighting slot of your preferred render engine. Adjust the rotation to align the sun position with your scene geometry to ensure shadows and reflections match the background. Because this map contains high-dynamic-range data, it will automatically drive both the primary illumination and secondary bounce light. If the exposure appears too intense, use the global exposure settings in your renderer to fine-tune the ambient light levels without losing the highlight detail.