There are also a number of performance improvements, particularly to production renders containing procedural skies, and when rendering area lights through HDR Light Studio’s own built-in renderer.

Other than that, the changes are mainly workflow-related, including the option to store custom interface layouts on a per-host-application basis, and support for HiDPI displays. Workflow improvements and speed boosts when using area lights However, it is compatible with most key third-party renderers: V-Ray, Corona, Arnold and Redshift in the case of 3ds Max, and V-Ray, Arnold, OctaneRender, Redshift and RenderMan in the case of Maya. The system, which is intended to improve the accuracy of render previews – and to help users with single monitor set-ups – is currently only available via the software’s 3ds Max and Maya plugins. To that, the Carbon release adds a new interactive render view that launches a render session in a host 3D application and displays the results interactively inside HDR Light Studio. New in Carbon: a new interactive render view linked to 3ds Max and Maya’s render engines Users range from major VFX facilities like Framestore, MPC and Luma Pictures to advertising specialists like Ars Thanea and Saddington Baynes, and the in-house teams of most major car manufacturers. LightPaint can also be used to create supplementary area lights inside the host 3D app. These can be created by dragging lights around on a rectangular canvas, or by clicking directly in the render view to position highlights, at least in host applications that support the software’s LightPaint system. Widely used in automotive and design visualisation – and more recently, visual effects, particularly since the release of version 5 – HDR Light Studio enables artists to design their own synthetic HDRIs. The update also marks a change in version numbering: under Lightmap’s previous system, it would have been HDR Light Studio 5.5, but the firm has now switched to codenames for releases.ĭesign your own synthetic HDRI-based studio lighting set-ups

Lightmap has released HDR Light Studio Carbon, the new version of its real-time lighting design tool, adding an interactive render view, support for HiDPI displays, and speed boosts when using area lights. Scroll down for news of the Drop 4 update.

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