Last week Andrew Price released his new “Pro-Lighting skies” Blender addon, a HDR image pack very useful for external scenes.

You can find below my first test with this new addon; I want to highlight two important aspects:

• a great decrease of memory consumption: from about 4190MB to about 3150MB, almost entirely occupied by materials image textures.
• it’s very easy to use.

You can find below or here renderings with old HDR backgound.

Fisheye rendering

Little planet rendering