Lightmap HDR Light Studio 5 - The lighting tool for 3D artists - HDR
Light Studio provides a fast and precise way to light a 3D model. The
lighting design is saved as a high dynamic range, high resolution image
that can be used in any renderer.
Full Feature List:
- Professional lighting software for creating HDRI maps for image based lighting
- Add, move and edit lights on a lat-long rectangular canvas.
- Lights displayed on the canvas are distorted automatically so that
they appear undistorted when projected using a 3D spherical environment
map. Three projection types are included for content placed on the
canvas: Planar, 3D (Lat-Long), Spherical.
- Procedural and image based lighting content - including procedural sky.
- Load BMP, Cineon, HDR, IFF, JPG, OpenEXR, PNG, PSD, Targa, Tiff files
as lighting content. For large image files, converting to a mip-mapped
image format before loading significantly increases performance.
- Over one hundred high resolution, high dynamic range images of
spotlights, softboxes, umbrellas and other light sources are included
with HDR Light Studio 5. These can be dragged from the presets panel and
dropped onto the 3D model, canvas or light list.
- Blend modes determine how the lights are composited. Add, Multiply,
Over, Low Pass, Color, Saturation, Hue, Amplify are included.
- Variable sized canvas can be zoomed and panned for precision lighting.
- Our patented "LightPaint" technology enables you to position lights
accurately on the environment map by clicking where you'd like the
lighting effect on the 3D model. Rim mode allows quick positioning of
light behind your model. This approach removes much of the trial and
error of traditional lighting setups.
- Lights are managed in a list and can be switched off, soloed,
re-ordered and locked. The position in the list determines the order in
which the lights are composited on the HDR canvas.
- Toolbars provide quick access to all light types: Round Light, Rect
Light, Hex Light, Gradient Light, Picture Light, Dark Light, Sun Shade,
Gradient Background, Picture Background, Sky Background and the Uber
Light. Uber Light is a flexible multi-purpose light with additional
Alpha controls.
- Frequently used light parameters (brightness, scale, rotation) can be adjusted using a dragable area of the interface.
- 3D models are rendered and displayed in the Render View window. An
optimised renderer is used to provide an instant preview of your
lighting design as you add, move, edit and delete lights, or change the
surface characteristics of your model. There are options to render with a
shadow catcher floor and display a solid color, flat image or the
environment map in the background of your shot.
- Supported 3D model formats: Collada, Mental Images, OBJ, Alembic (time support in seconds) and FBX (Windows only).
- Flexible user interface with panels that can be docked, undocked,
tabbed, resized and hidden. Includes a range of useful interface
layouts.
- Canvas pixel probe provides RGBA and HSV values.
- Canvas exposure control.
- Canvas channel controls to view HSVA, HSV, Red, Green, Blue, Alpha.
- Unlimited Undo/Redo.
- Optional plug-in connections are available to buy that link HDR Light
Studio to your 3D software. These connections seamlessly push the model
to HDR Light Studio and pull the environment map back into the 3D
application without having to import/export via the filesystem.
Connections also allow you to view each of your lighting changes both in
HDR Light Studio’s optimised renderer and in your 3D app’s final
renderer.
- Supported connections include: 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, MODO,
LightWave3D. (Coming soon to Houdini, Bunkspeed, VRED, Maxwell Studio,
Rhino 3D)
- Industry standard OpenColorIO color management.
- Save lighting as HDR file or OpenEXR file (version 2) with Mip Mapping option.
- HDR Light Studio is built for 64bit editions of Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
- Easily unlock the product using activation codes, built on industry standard RLM license keys.
- Nodelocked and floating licenses available.
