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HDR Light Studio software provides 3D artists with a new way to light 3D imagery. Paint your shot with lights. The lighting process is now easy, fast, precise, creative and enjoyable. HDR Light Studio builds lighting that is used by your existing 3D software and renderer. By adding HDR Light Studio, 3D artists become more productive and image quality improves.
Interactive Image Based Lighting
The dynamic HDRI environment map is updated in real-time as lights are added and adjusted, as is the Render View that is lit by it.
HDRI Area Lights
HDR Light Studio can also create and control 3D Area Lights / Emitters inside your 3D software. These are positioned with the same intuative interface, clicking and dragging on the 3D model. Area Lights are currently compatible with 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, MODO, Houdini and Octane Render Standalone Connections.
More than Studio Lighting
HDR Light Studio is best known for studio lighting, as the software name suggests. However you can do much more in HDR Light Studio than create studio HDRI maps. You can load and 'enhance, augment, mix' existing HDR and LDR image content using HDR Light Studio's powerful features. Allowing you to take full control over the lighting effect of any existing HDRI map.
Use Standalone or Connected
HDR Light Studio can be used standalone - load a 3D scene and produce the perfect HDRI map.
OR
Connect HDR Light Studio with your 3D software and Renderer. Lighting is built and updated live within your 3D software as you light with HDR Light Studio. Connections are available for:
- 3ds Max
- Maya
- Cinema 4D
- Modo
- VRED
- DELTAGEN
- Rhino
- Blender
- SOLIDWORKS Visualize
- LightWave3D
- Houdini
- Maxwell Studio
- Octane Render Standalone
Includes a Library of Light Sources
HDR Light Studio includes a library of over 200 high quality HDR photographs of soft boxes, spot lights, windows and even clouds.
Version: HDR Light Studio 8 Drop 1
Release Date: 2023 May 03
What's New?
Light Like a Pro with Scrim Lights
Scrim Lighting is a technique used by professional photographers in the studio to light products, jewelry, and even cars. A Scrim Light combines a sheet of translucent material, called a scrim, with a separate light source illuminating the scrim from behind.
HDR Light Studio 8 adds Scrim Lighting that is easy to control, real-time, and renders fast in your 3D software. The light source is easily positioned behind the scrim using the interactive top and front views of the scrim setup.
LightPaint Enhanced
HDR Light Studio 8 has expanded the LightPaint system. It's now possible to control many more light properties directly in the Render Views and Canvas - such as brightness, position, scale, rotation, and even the Light placement within the Scrim Light. Keyboard shortcuts allow you to change LightPaint tools in any view - speeding up the workflow.
Shape the light with Polygon
The Polygon content is useful for controlling the shape of lights when used on Alpha Multiply. It includes controls for the edge softness and corner radius.
Copy and Paste Lights
You can now copy and paste selected lights, within the same Look, into other Looks and between Projects. Pasted lights are added to the top of the Light List.
Reverse Ramp button
A new button has been added to the ramp editing panel that will horizontally flip the ramp.
Plug-in Connections
Most plug-ins have been updated with performance enhancements and API changes. So please update to the latest plug-in for your 3D software.
Support has been added for Maya 2024 and DeltaGen 2023.
Patchwork 3D 2023 has been updated to stream its render into the HDR Light Studio 8 interface for LightPainting.
- Product Identifiers -
MPN: HDR Light Studio - Automotive - Floating / Ann Sub- Product Specifications -
System Requirements
- Windows: 7, 8, 8.1, 10
- Mac OS: 10.13.0 (High Sierra) or later
- Linux
- Certified against: Scientific Linux 7.2
- Compatible with: Centos 7, Fedora 19+ (not 27 though), Ubuntu 13.10+, Mint 16+, Debian 8+, OpenSUSE 13.2+
Connection Requirements
- 3ds Max - 2020, 2021, 2022 - Plug-in build 2021.0914 (updated)
- Blender - 2.83 (LTS) and higher - Plug-in build 2021.0904 (updated)
- Cinema 4D - 21.115 or higher, 22, 23, 24, 25 - Plug-in build 2021.0519
- DeltaGen - 2017, 2018, 2019x, 2020x, 2021x - Plug-in build 2020.0319
- Houdini - 17.5, 18, 18.5 (18.5 with Python 2 and 3) - Plug-in build 2021.0504
- Maya - 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 - Plug-in build 2021.0504
- MODO - 12, 13, 14, 15 (Windows and OSX) - Plug-in build 2021.0504
- LightWave 3D - 2018, 2019, 2020 - Plug-in build 2021.0520
- Rhino 5 (Windows only) - Plug-in build 2018.0206
- Rhino 6 and 7 (Windows only) - Plug-in build 2019.0624
- Octane Standalone: 2020, 2020.2 (Windows only) , Plug-in build 2021.0512
- NVIDIA Omniverse™ - Extension the 'Create' app 2021.3.2 versions and higher (Windows only) - Plug-in build 2021.0914
- VRED - 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2020.1, 2021, 2022 (Windows only) - No additional plug-in installation required
- Maxwell Studio - 5 (Windows only) - No additional plug-in installation required
- SOLIDWORKS Visualize - 2017 and above (Windows) - No additional plug-in installation required
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