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HDR Light Studio 3.0 has arrived!

January 1st, 2012

Lightmap launches HDR Light Studio version 3.0

HDR Light Studio v3.0 features: Collada support, new light blending modes, custom fall-off curves and faster render times

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1st January 2012 – Lightmap today announced immediate availability of HDR Light Studio v3.0 – the most incredible version yet of their groundbreaking real-time lighting software. Packed with new features including; localized exposure, color and saturation tools using new light blending modes, custom fall-off curves, a new color system for lighting artists and Collada support. Read more

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HDR Light Studio Live for KeyShot

August 23rd, 2011

HDR Light Studio Live plug-in for KeyShot released!

LONDON – 1st September, 2011
Lightmap Ltd is proud to announce the launch of the HDR Light Studio Live plug-in for Luxion KeyShot. HDR Light Studio brings a professional real-time HDRI lighting tool-kit directly into KeyShot to allow users to vastly improve the quality of their renders with custom lighting designs for each shot that brings out the best in the subject. With its simple yet powerful interface, 3D artists, designers and engineers of all levels can quickly transform their shots into works of art to help sell their new ideas. Existing HDR environments can be augmented to improve the quality of their renders with more control over the lighting and reflections. Read more

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Real Suns by Hyperfocal Design

July 5th, 2011

The Real Suns Light Pack adds 8 highly varied HDRI sun captures to ‘HDR Light Studio 2.0′. These can be used and positioned like any other light source. Use Real Suns to add drama and life to existing dull HDRI environments. Bring your car renders to life with a moody sunset or add interest in your reflections and highlights with the subtle cloud patterns found around the suns.

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Next Limit Technologies and Lightmap Ltd. Announce Maxwell Render Support for HDR Light Studio Live Plugin

March 9th, 2011

Unique New Solution to Provide Simple and Powerful Lighting Approach to the Creation of Photo-quality Renders

LONDON – March 9, 2011 – Lightmap Ltd., makers of HDR Light Studio, and Next Limit Technologies, creators of Maxwell Render, are excited to announce HDR Light Studio Live for Maxwell Render, a new plugin that provides users with a totally new approach to lighting objects. This software will aid the visualization process for jewelry, product and automotive designers by adding interactive real-time lighting, reflection design and HDRI environment augmentation within Maxwell Studio.

HDR Light Studio Live is designed specifically for HDRI lighting design and enables the replication of a studio photography experience. Containing over 100 pictures lights, the plugin includes a wide range of studio light source captures for added realism and provides the perfect solution to replace product photography of consumer goods, jewelry and cars. Read more

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HDR Light Studio comes to Patchwork3D

February 8th, 2011

We are proud to announce Lumiscaphe’s Patchwork 3D version 5.0 now supports HDR Light Studio directly via the new Patchwork3D Live plug-in, available now from the Lightmap store. Read more

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HDR Light Studio comes to VRED 5.0

February 3rd, 2011

We are proud to announce Pi-VR’s VRED 5.0 now supports HDR Light Studio directly via the new VRED Live plug-in, available now from the Lightmap store.

The new Live plug-in contains all the features of HDR Light Studio Pro v2.0 and allows your HDRI lighting designs to evolve in real-time directly in VRED.

Osman Dumbuya, Managing Director, PI-VR GmbH says:
“HDR Light Studio is an outstanding tool that really helps create a great lighting setup in a very short period of time. Using HDR Light Studio in VRED offers a totally new, intuitive and most important fully interactive way of working. Changes in the light setup are being updated in real time whether you are working in OpenGL or Ray-tracing rendering mode. With HDR Light Studio and VRED you have full control of all your light set-ups. All effects created in HDR Light Studio are fully being taken to account in the 3D environment in VRED to create sophisticated lighting shadowing and reflections.”

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HDR Light Studio 2.0 plug-in released for Deep Exploration 6

February 3rd, 2011

HDR Light Studio Live plug-ins provides real-time advanced HDRI lighting design totally integrated into your host 3D software. This new updated Live plug-in brings all of the Pro features of HDR Light Studio 2.0 inside of Right Hemisphere’s ‘Deep Exploration 6’. So you can see the HDRI lighting design evolve directly onto your Deep Exploration scene.

It’s just like a real photo-shoot. Position your camera and light the shot in real-time using studio lighting alone or, new in version 2.0, by adding lighting effects on top of an existing real-world HDRI environment. The Deep Exploration HDR renderer is very simple to use with only a few settings but produces high quality final renders. It’s a great solution for those without a lot of rendering experience but who are looking for an easy and fast way to create excellent renderings of new product designs from CAD data.

This Deep Exploration 6 plug-in is no longer a separate product but is now included with the HDR Light Studio 2.0 ‘Pro’ edition. It’s the first of the CORE plug-ins to be released, see the Live Plug-ins page for more details.

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HDR Light Studio version 2 is released

November 2nd, 2010

HDR Light Studio version 2.0

LONDON – Nov. 2, 2010 – Lighting design can be one of the most time-consuming parts of the visualization process, particularly for those professionals seeking photorealistic results suitable for design, advertising and marketing imagery. Lightmap Ltd., makers of HDR Light Studio, are excited to announce an important advance in the area of lighting, visualization and HDRI rendering: HDR Light Studio 2.0. The newest version of Lightmap’s flagship product for interactive image-based lighting, HDR Light Studio 2.0 provides 3D computer graphics (CG) artists with an interactive tool for designing image-based lighting environments for their 3D models, and an accelerated way to light a 3D scene with photo-real results.

“Our clients have been steadily moving toward a CG workflow as it oftentimes reflects a significant cost savings over traditional photography,” said Greg Peruski, digital artist at Midcoast Studio. “Advertising imagery constantly dances the line between reality and idealism, and HDR Light Studio 2.0 allows me the flexibility to achieve the right look quickly and easily.” Read more

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Right Hemisphere and Lightmap Introduce Studio Lighting Capabilities for Deep Exploration Authoring Software

December 8th, 2009

Right Hemisphere and Lightmap to Showcase Dazzling New Lighting Capabilities for Deep Exploration Users in Free Webinar on December 15 Read more

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HDR Light Studio 1.5 Released – What’s new?

October 12th, 2009

There’s a host of new features to make HDR Light Studio™ even more powerful.

A new improved interface has a taller ‘Light List’ to eliminate the need for scrolling in most lighting setups. Icons have been created beside each setting, making it even more intuitive to use and less language dependent. To make it easier to imagine the placement of your lights in 3D we have added cubic guides as well as the original latitude-longitude guides for the HDR Canvas. Read more

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