HDRi Ground Projection with a Free Blender Add-On! 

That's EXACTLY what I was looking for but, as a noob, didn't know how to express!! Thank you so much!! HDRI environments have always annoyed me for this "floating" reason!!!

got it installed but errors when importing hdri

You should look in the camerat tilt shift. That way you can move the camera on Y-axis and keeping verticals vertical. It will also help with getting nicer framing sometimes. Its mostly used in architectual shots. But i think for this should it would work as well

just now was trying to figure it out the shadow catcher and a way to make the world look more "real", now i i can! Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!

Wow. That works really well. I was having so much difficulty matching a plane to the HDRI image - even for a snow scene. This takes care of it instantly.

The best soft soft tutorial ever!

A good addon, I saw a similar one but paid. By the way, this HDRI photo was taken in Russia)

With your videos my learning curve will shrink drastically. Thank you.

If you like the content I create it would mean a lot if you could check out my Patreon page (www.patreon.com/blenderdailytips ). Thanks a lot for your support!

kudos to the team who made this addon

Omg, you explained it very simply! It's really easy to understand. Thank you so much! I've always wanted to learn these.

Awesome video brother. 👏👏👍👏👏

you saved me a lot of time, thank you

really nice add -on..Is there a way to add HDRI's without using PolyHaven I have a HDRI add on pack I purchased and i want to use HDRI's from this pack instead on PolyHaven How do I do this in LilySurface

Nice tutorial but one thing would make it more realistic, the shadow catcher properties. When you turn off glossy rays it also prevents the shadows cast from being reflected in the object (try it with a chrome cube). What I do is copy the entire node setup from the world to a ground plane, swap the background node for a principled BSDF so it receives light, change the texture coordinate output to reflection and set the mapping Z axis to minus 1, set the plane to shadow catcher and you should now have shadows on the ground that are also visible in the car as the shadow catcher is now identical to the ground from the HDR. You can even add a little shininess to the principled BSDF and have reflections of the object in the ground. Works for me but Im sure someone more knowledgable can find a better way of doing this.

back in and recently got soft soft again, it felt strange and i had previously just taught myself the software. Finding your videos is helping

Oh man this is so easy and fast, thank you, insta subbed. I was struggling with the hard method of making a sphere and projecting the inside of the sphere and then flattening the bottom and the entire scene looked warped ..etc a complete headache. Thank you

Great work mate🎉, keep posting videos like this 🙌🏻

Awesome video thank you for the link to a useful tool + a great explanation. Small English pronunciation thing: generally "A" a vowel followed by a consonant then E right after you use long vowel sound A pronounced like its name A as in pay or day so scraper ( a thing that scrapes the surface or takes from a surface). SCRAP in English means to make into garbage/jettison or abandon as useless. Scrapper would be a thing that makes something into scrap and I don't think you intend that use here. Please do no take this correction as a slight or criticism. I once lived in a foreign country where I had to learn the language. I ALWAYS wished people would just correct my pronunciations rather than shyly be amused by my accent without explaining why they were amused. Love your vids.

i didn't expect the result are vey good then expected. impressed. look's perfect. just adjust the variable inside world tab. done. thanks for making this video. really useful.

i cant use the lily surface pop up error piton something like that

man's a life saver

One other little thing Ive just noticed is that I thought it odd you had to scale the car up as it shouldn't need scaling in a normal HDR, but it is because this plugin scales the world by 20x which means you have to scale the models 20x to make them 'fit' the scene. I set the scaling to 1 and it works fine.

thanks buddy!

Nice job man, seems like soft soft has gotten a lot more complex since the fruity loops days that I rember. Very helpful, thank you.

I have been looking for this method for years!!! Thank you!

You are one of my favorite Blender teachers!

This is perfect. what ı was looking forrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Wowww I didnt know nodes are the way to do it...

your tips and tutorials are the best, thank you 🙏🏻

great one there, i will try it for sure!!!

Yo your videos are the best!

Super useful adding. Thanks for spreading the word

superb addon....

Thanks always!

Really nice! Thanks from Brazil!

Very nice tip on how to add shadows, thanks!

Very helpful, thank you!!!

drums softing good start learning how to make your own lodies. Good luck bro!

Thank you so much for sharing valuable knowledge. I was searching this for long time

Thank you kind person!

thank you so much for this, im gonna go make huge blender legos rn

Another great helpful tutorial.... with lots of helpful tips. So thankful good man

Thank you very much for all of your useful tutorials 👍👍

man. Thank you!

Awesome tutorial, thank you very much!

TY Nik!

Yes this!

Congratulation, excelent video

Excellent tutorial. Thank you for helping us.

Cool tip!

Bro it’s very intimidating! I’ve been slacking on it for a month now. The symbols are very confusing. You have to train your mind to

Thanq I decided to purchase the paid version, thank God you helped saving some bucks.thanq very much.Nice tutorial. I subscribed your channel.

Thank you very much ❤❤

Amazing video, thank you for sharing!

Thank you, Sir, you are The Best

Useful Addon. Really makes life easier. What if it's an interior scene and you have to place an object on say coffee table / bookshelf / side table, etc.? Taking it one step further, what if there are 2, 3 such surfaces at different heights? Can I use this addon in some way to take care of two or more surfaces at different heights?

Thx .Nice easy beginners guide. helped plenty!

very nice tutorial and it is so simple to use

Always useful videos you guys! Thanx!!

Another great and useful video, thank you !

Thanks a lot! Life saving!

Thanks ❤

may have to go another route.

Very nice. A little advice - you can press Shift-~ when you rotate a camera (inside a camera).

This was awesome thanks!

ikr!

Damn, thanks, this was really helpful

If you know? That this ground technique can be a substitute or a backup addon from the HDRI Maker addon, which has extraordinary costs ...

awesome!! thank you very much!!

instead of scaling up the car. can we scale down the hdri?

A very helpful channel. Thanks

Superb, keep it up

nice

Very useful information 👌

Amazing thank you

Very much useful, afraid to use shadow catcher earlier

VERY VERY Cool ....... thanks mate.

TQ bro, for room space hdri can i use this add on?

thanks

On closer look, I notice that the scene close to the ground is all distorted

I was also exactly having the sa expressions LMFAO

amazing video bro but how to fix the hdri streached out? edit: i just had to plug the vector to the direction as well...

Doesn't work anymore - HDRI haven has been removed in the latest version (now polyhaven and it doesn't seem to recognise HDRI links - only textures) :(

Nice tutorial, thank you. Does this add on create a dome in fact ?

This is amazing! I've been looking for a way to solve precisely the HDRI projection issue so you can make animations where the camera moves and not have objects slide off the ground. I prolly won't use the addon permanently, and if it's simple enough I may just extract the nodes used by the world editor to fix the mapping.

Thank you very much for knowledge sharing

Sir please make video on building distruction scene in blender

Thank you so much

Great tutorial but when I make a plane it not showing any Shadow of car. And newer version of blender not showing all option in object tab. What should I do to get the shadow. ( Mentioning that I have no light and I deleted light at first from the scene)

I bought HDRI Maker in part because of this ground projection. HDRI Maker is good though and I still recommend it for overall HDRI ease in Blender.

Vielen Lieben dank!!!!

What if I want to use HDRI from ambientcg or my own HDRI?

It does not seem to work with Blender 2.92 . I do not have any option to add HDRI from HDRI Haven.

Thanks for the tips, but it's not working for me I cannot import HDRI, if I do that manually ground projection is not working. Any solution

its not work on blendre 4+

bri i cant see the shadow catcher in visibility option please help me!!!!

thank you verymuch bro , can u make " how to make a HDRi "

Thank youu so much

I disabled the plane's reflection from the body of the car, but how to remove it from the tires? ( tried the same method for it too)...any solution?

great add-on(and video obviously:-))...I lost one day in various f...ing tutorial about shadow catcher and finally this pearl...thanks. PS. with sphere glass material i see the plane in reflection...someone answer?