About this asset

This night HDRI environment map provides realistic 360-degree illumination for architectural scenes featuring a vaulted arcade. The environment captures a traditional masonry arcade at night, featuring clean white vaulted ceilings contrasted against exposed brick walls and intricate stone floor paving. The lighting is defined by soft, cool-toned uplighting directed at the arches, creating a calm and atmospheric ambiance. Through the open arches, distant warm street lamps from the surrounding urban square are visible, providing a natural secondary light source. The composition includes architectural details such as staircases, metal railings, and a public notice board, making it a comprehensive asset for realistic exterior or interior rendering projects.

The download is a 6.3 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.

Load this equirectangular HDR file into the environment slot of your chosen rendering engine, such as V-Ray, Corona, or Octane. It provides both the background image and the primary light source for your scene. Adjust the exposure and white balance settings within your software to match the light intensity to your specific project requirements, ensuring the cool interior uplights and warm exterior highlights interact correctly with your 3D materials and geometry.

This HDRI is ideal for architectural visualisations requiring a sophisticated, nocturnal urban setting. It pairs effectively with projects focused on historical preservation, boutique retail spaces, or outdoor urban hospitality areas. Professionals can use this map to establish a moody, high-quality lighting baseline for night-time exterior shots or semi-enclosed street-level scenes. It is particularly useful when demonstrating the interaction of artificial lighting on textured surfaces like brick and stone, providing realistic reflections and shadow play for high-end presentation imagery.