About this asset

This 2K high-dynamic-range environment map provides realistic night-time urban lighting for architectural visualisations. This HDRI environment map features a realistic night-time urban street scene, captured with a focus on authentic light distribution. The composition includes multiple street lamps providing warm, directional light sources against a dark, nocturnal background. The spherical projection ensures consistent illumination and reflections for 3D assets, effectively simulating the ambient glow and harsh highlights characteristic of public city infrastructure. The file is optimised for high-fidelity rendering, providing both the primary light source and the background environment, ensuring that reflections on reflective surfaces accurately correspond to the surrounding street context.

The download is a 9.1 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.

To utilise this asset, load the file into the environment or world lighting slot of your rendering engine. Adjust the exposure and rotation settings to align the light sources with your 3D scene geometry. Because this map contains high-dynamic-range data, it will automatically drive both the global illumination and the specular highlights on materials. For best results, ensure your renderer is set to interpret the file as a linear light source for accurate intensity and colour temperature.

This environment map is suitable for exterior architectural visualisations, urban design projects, and night-time scenes requiring authentic lighting conditions. It is particularly effective for projects featuring street furniture, public realm designs, or residential developments situated in urban contexts. Professionals can use this to quickly establish atmosphere in exterior shots, pairing it with artificial light sources on buildings to create a cohesive nocturnal aesthetic. The map is ideal for rapid iteration during the design development phase when realistic night lighting is essential.