I cannot import bmp or HDRi

[eardnua1]

I am watching the tutorial entitled Tutorial: Environment HDRI lighting. At approx. 2:30 it instructed me to get an environment map from a downloaded file. When I go to retrieve it only gives me the option to import items with the following extensions .mat, .max, and .chr. What can I do?

[romullus]

Watch carefully that tutorial again. You've missed something, because from what you described it looks like you're trying to open mterial library, but not an bitmap texture.

[maru]

It would be great if you could show screenshots of what you are doing. Then we could show you screenshots how to do it properly. :)