Seit geraumer Zeit sind HDRI-Bilder ein essentieller Bestandteil der CG-Arbeit geworden. Der Grund ist einleuchtend, Realismus ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil und wird mit HDR Light Studio komfortabler und in kürzerer Zeit erreichbar. LightMap versucht mit HDR Light Studio die alten Muster in der Art wie Sie Ihre Bilder beleuchten zu durchbrechen und den Markt um eine weitere Facette zu bereichern.
Mit der Version 2.0 führt das Unternehmen eine Reihe von fantastischen Features ein, die die Art, wie sie über Beleuchtung denken grundlegend verändern wird.
Mit der Version 3.0 gibt es zahlreiche neue Features wie z.B.:
- Neue Blend modes
- Genaue Steuerung des Lichteinfalls - Custom Fall-off
- Color Gradients - Synthetic und Picture Lights
- Verbessterter Color Picker - Designed für Lighting Artists
- LiveLight - schneller und mit vielen Verbesserungen
- außerdem jede Menge generelle Verbesserungen.
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Create studio lighting environments from scratch - with synthetic and Picture Lights with a gradient HDR background. |
Loads HDR background images and add lighting on top. Plus advanced HDR tools for adjusting and creatively relighting existing locations. Pro is the ultimate creative HDR lighting tool kit offering precision and control. |
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Includes LiveLight |
Includes LiveLight and plug-ins for KeyShot, Maxwell & Deep Exploration (SAP Visual Enterprise Author 7) |
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| Synthetic lights | X |
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| Custom Fall-Off | X |
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| Amp, Color and Saturation blend modes | X |
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| Picture lights | X |
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| Gradient color on lights | X |
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| New Color picker including Kelvin | X |
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| Color match tools for HDR and LDR images | X |
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| Gradient background | X |
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| HDR & EXR background | X |
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| Transparent background | X |
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| Unlimited Maximum & Custom Sizes | Max 5,000 x 2,500 |
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| Real-time lighting preview - Collada, OBJ & MI files | X |
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| Image and colored background options in LiveLight | X |
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| KeyShot | X |
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| Maxwell Studio | X |
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| Deep Exploration (SAP Visual Enterprise Author 7) | X |
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HDR Light Studio uses image based lighting technology - but wraps it up into an easy to use, powerful real-time lighting experience. Artists make choices with their eyes and HDR Light Studio enables artists to interactively light CG objects in record time and to higher quality than possible before. HDR Light Studio has already become an indispensable lighting tool for 3D artists world-wide.
Professional Studio Lighting
Design HDRI lighting maps from scratch using powerful Synthetic and Picture based light sources. Place lights onto the HDR canvas, and their shape is distorted in real-time, so they look correct when mapped onto a lighting sphere/dome. This unique solution means that 'image based lighting' is now faster to create and just as interactive as traditional CG light sources. Plus image based lighting has many advantages - fast render times and the added realism you get from the light energy and the intensity of reflections being perfectly in sync.
Professional Studio Lighting - On Location
Load existing HDR environments and add additional light sources and effects on top. Don't be restricted by the lighting found within your existing HDR captures. Custom studio lighting placed into existing location HDRs can bring out the best in your subject matter. If a photographer were to shoot on location, additional lighting and bounce cards would always be used. But their position always depends on the shape and materials of the subject matter. HDR Light Studio provides the best of both worlds - real world location with additional studio lighting.
Make your own HDRI maps to match back-plate images
Create a HDR environment to match an existing photographic background. Pick colors from the background image using the new color matching tools in HDR Light Studio 3.0 and build your own HDRIs with accurate coloring - so objects looks properly bedded in to the background image. With instant feedback on your changes - you can quickly craft a suitable lighting environment.
Creative location re-lighting
Gain interactive and creative control over lighting from shot locations
Dynamically enhance an existing HDRI lighting map - seeing the results on your 3D model in real-time. Change exposure and color using the new synthetic light blending modes. It's amazing to be able to shape the light in an artistic manner - but taking advantage of all the detail held within the original HDR map. All changes are editable, nondestructive and can be rendered as a final lighting image at any time.
Increasing the dynamic range of LDR environment maps
Sometimes the HDR you have been provided with does not contain a large dynamic range. Or maybe you only have access to a low dynamic range environment. As long as your image is saved as a HDR or EXR file, whatever its dynamic range - you can then load it into HDR Light Studio and dodge and burn the exposure of the image using the new blending modes - thereby stretching the dynamic range. Create a useful lighting environment even out of content that usually would not be suitable for lighting.
Shine a light into existing HDR locations with the new Blend modes
Use synthetic light sources to make adjustments to the underlying content - be that other lights or existing HDR locations. These new blend modes provide totally interactive control over the lighting from existing HDRI environments. Blend modes can be used in conjunction with the 'Inv' button to reverse their effect.
Precise control to shape the light - Custom Fall-off
Use the powerful custom fall-off ramp to control the graduation of light precisely across its fall-off shape. This provides more subtle studio lighting effects than ever - allowing precise control of how graduations of light will appear in reflections. Custom fall-off also provides users with the ability to precisely control the areas adjusted by the new light blend modes.
Color Gradients - Synthetic and Picture Lights
Why should a light have only one color? Now you can create a ramp of color from the center to the edge of a synthetic and picture light. The effect can be subtle or outrageous. You can also use the color gradient to control the brightness across a picture light, like a fall-off ramp, ideal for fine control of Soft boxes.
Advanced Color Picker - Designed for lighting artists
We designed a new color picker focused on the the needs of a lighting artist. The color refinement grid allows artists to try subtle changes in color to see their effect in real time. The color matching tools let users match color from HDR and LDR images, plus there's a Kelvin Color Temperature picker - an essential ingredient for lighting.
LiveLight - faster and full of new enhancements
- LiveLight is now faster with an improved render engine.
- Added support for loading Collada files into LiveLight - including multiple cameras.
- Select your camera views from .mi and Collada files containing multiple cameras.
- Metallic reflection mode has been added.
- Floor Shadow - grounds a model giving it a more realistic feel, without the need for importing floor geometry that blocks light and reflections from the HDRI.
- Choose an image (JPEG, TIF, BMP) or a solid color for the LiveLight background.
- Tone-mapping has been replaced with a gamma setting.
General
- It's all real-time - a far more interactive experience! Every setting in HDR Light Studio 3.0 now updates the HDR canvas in real-time. Adjust a light color, the background gradient, HDR background rotation or brightness - and instantly see the results without waiting to press OK.
- HDi project files now have an icon in Windows, and can be double clicked to open them in HDR Light Studio.
Main Interface
- Re-name lights - double click a light in the list to re-name it.
- Picture Lights are given their Picture Light name - but can be re-named afterwards.
- Click and drag lights up and down the light list to easily re-order them.
- Hover over a light in the list and a cross appears on the HDR canvas showing the location of that light, making it easier to identify your lights.
- The light visibility states are now saved in the HDi project files.
HDRI Background Settings
- Fine tune the HDRI rotation with both Degree and Minute precision.
- Colorize your HDRI background - ideal when used with studio background images to create any background color from a single grey-scale HDRI.
- Flip - now you can flip the referenced HDRI horizontally.
Systemvoraussetzungen:
- Windows® XP 32/64 bit
- Windows® Vista 32/64 bit
- Windows® 7 64 bit. (Windows® 7 32 bit is not supported)
- min. 2 GB RAM, 960MB freier Festplatten-Speicher
- Web browser und Internet Verbindung nötig für Software Aktivierung und Support.
- Lizenz gültig für einen Nutzer/eine Maschine.
- LiveLight benutzt für die Echt-Zeit-Vorschau nur die CPU, es ist keine spezielle Grafikkarte nötig.
