posting environments

it would be nice if there was a place on the forums (or on the site if it's not possible to do in the forums) to be able to post our own hand made environments. since the file size on the forums is only 500k and most environments are well over that, i suppose it would have to be at least a separate sub-forum, if the individual forums can have their own file size limit, or somewhere else on the site. at any rate, it would be nice to be able to exchange these with others.

In FilterForge the nice shading/reflections comes partially from the HDRI environment maps. These are spherical panoramas that basically create an "environment" in which we can realistically light and reflect surface shading off of. Anyway... so you can load custom spherical HDRI maps into FF for different lighting effects. These you can make by taking a spherical HDR (360) panoramic photographs, or you can synthetically generate them with 3D programs, or even in FilterForge (there are a couple filters here that do the lighting for you).

The thing is the lighting method in FF generates lovely realistic material. By default we do get a couple... but we can always enjoy more.

I'd be happy to post a couple of my own as well.

Note on the part with the suggestion we can always find a separate host for it. But it'd be also nice if FilterForge has a place for it too.

Craig, our Filter Forge wiki allows uploading large files. I'm confident a wiki page is the best place to share environments.