Create the perfect HDRI environment in minutes with HDR Light Studio. Lighting shots is now fast, precise and easy. Simply click on the model to position lights on a live HDRI map.
Images lit with HDR Light Studio
“If you want to get into higher level with your renderings and decrease the time spent on the lighting set-ups, HDR Light Studio is definitely THE SOLUTION!”
------Piotr Kosinski, 3D Artist, PK3D Studio
HDR Light Studio transforms your lighting workflow:
- Studio Lighting
- Lighting to match a back-plate image
- Adding lights/adjustments to existing HDRI maps
Creative Benefits:
- Fast
- Craft lighting to a higher level
- Explore more lighting treatments
- User Friendly
- Puts the art back into lighting
- Easy to use with real-time feedback
- Accurate
- Precisely position lighting and reflections on 3D models
Commercial Benefits:
- Cost Effective
- Increase productivity – light shots in minutes not hours
- Image based lighting can significantly reduce render times
- Works with your existing hardware/software
- Improve Quality
- HDR lighting raises image quality to the next level
Key Features:
- LightPaint – click on the 3D model in HDR Light Studio to position lights
- Create and edit HDRI maps in real-time
- Procedural lights, image based lights and procedural sky
- Loads Alembic and Collada scenes
- Includes a large library of HDRI light source captures
- Ideal lighting solution for Physically Based Rendering
- OpenColorIO Color Management
What is the workflow with HDR Light Studio standalone?
In your main 3D software, the model has materials applied, the camera view is setup, you are now ready to light…
- Export the 3D scene as an Alembic or Collada file
- Start HDR Light Studio standalone and load the 3D file
- Load an existing HDRI map to edit, or start with a blank canvas
- Add a new lights in HDR Light Studio
- Click/drag on the 3D model in HDR Light Studio to position lights
- To finish, HDR Light Studio generates a high-resolution HDRI map
- Use this HDRI map for image based lighting in your 3D software
Requirements:
- Software delivery via internet download
- Internet connection required for license activation
- HDR Light Studio software requires approx. 200MB disc space
- Preset light content requires approx. 6.2GB disc space
- CPU based, no special graphics card required
- Compatible with Windows, MacOS and Linux
HDR Light Studio can also be connected live to your 3D software: i.e Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, MODO, LightWave3D, Houdini, Maxwell Studio, Rhino, SOLIDWORKS Visualize, VRED, DeltaGen. Kindly contact your reseller for pricing.
