About this asset

This equirectangular HDRI environment map provides soft, natural sunrise lighting for 3D scenes with a suburban street context. The environment captures a quiet residential street in the Stuttgart suburbs during the early morning. Soft, diffused light emanates from a partly cloudy sky, featuring subtle pink hues characteristic of sunrise. The scene includes damp asphalt road surfaces, patches of green grass, and traditional suburban houses enclosed by wooden fencing. The lighting is low-contrast and neutral, making it ideal for realistic exterior architectural visualisations. This high-dynamic-range image is delivered as a 2K equirectangular map, ensuring smooth light transitions and accurate reflections across all surfaces within a 3D environment.

The download is a 6.6 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.

Professionals can load this HDR file directly into the environment or world lighting slot of any major rendering engine. Because it is an equirectangular projection, the map will wrap seamlessly around the scene, providing both background imagery and high-quality 360-degree illumination. Users should adjust the exposure and rotation settings within their software to align the light source with the desired orientation of their architectural model, effectively balancing the ambient light and shadow depth to match the specific project requirements.

This asset is suitable for exterior residential visualisations where a soft, early-morning atmosphere is required. It pairs well with contemporary or traditional house designs, providing a realistic context for suburban street scenes. Architects and visualisers working on residential developments, housing estate proposals, or neighbourhood masterplans will find this map useful for setting a calm, morning mood. It is particularly effective for rendering wet-look surfaces, such as damp road textures, to add a layer of environmental detail to the final output.