HDRI environment map not rendered?

[bm23]

I'm using HDRI for lighting but the environment isnt rendered. It's probably a setting that I don't know about. I'd manually add the background using photoshop but the thing is, my scene has a lot of glass and it screws up the alpha channel (ie, if i add a sky image using PS, the areas that are behind the glass in the render will remain opaque). I've been searching google for examples of settings used for HDRI but i don't get many result. Any help is appreciated

 

ps: Or if there's any workaround that you may know, I'd love to hear them too. Off the top of my head, I was thinking of manually creating a giant cylinder around my entire scene and then putting a sky image as the material on the cylinder.

[Cad64]

Are you using Mental Ray or Vray for rendering?

 

There are lots of tutorials online covering HDRI in Studio Max: https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_nf=3&tok=OdOwqlLo50L3l6lx4ErLqQ&cp=10&gs_id=6z&xhr=t&q=3ds+max+hdri+tutorial&pf=p&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=3ds+max+hd&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=97301e76c1e40a6c&bpcl=38625945&biw=1497&bih=811

[Raudel Solis]

 

if they are real .hdr images there should be no problems clicking on the environment map and setting an HDR image with a bitmap material type. then drag the material from the environment map slot to a material editor slot and make sure it is set to spherical environment, YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE THE CORRECT HDR IMAGE TYPE, YOU MIGHT HAVE A REFLECTION MAP "CIRCULAR" . Furtheremore the rest is all exposure, to help you in the viewport click this to show in viewport