Easy to tell the difference between an HDRI or plain spherical image, the suffix for the HDRI is .hdr , a plain spherical image is usually a .jpg image file. The difference for rendering is the HDRI will contribute all the lighting information to the render. Thats why you should disable the “sun” in the environment editor. Having single plane glass allows you to use the “Architectural Glass” template. The benefit is that it will render faster than glass modeled with actual thickness that has had the “Glass” template applied to it. One way to keep your model size more manageable is not to use Dynamic Components unless you really need to. “DC’s” can be pretty “heavy” due to the way they have to be modeled. When you import models from the warehouse it’s best not to import them directly into your model. Better to save them to a separate folder and go into them and do whatever cleanup may be needed before using them. It’s time well spent. A lot of times in my experience it can be faster to just model what you need as needed. It’s also good practice! Posting the light set ups that I used for doing the test render. If I can get my “DropBox” account back up and running I’ll post a link for the model.!
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