Video showing Energy-Conserving Light Scaling with Shift Key
Ever wanted to soften a shadow without completely rebalancing your lighting? Now you can. Hold Shift while resizing a light in the Render Views or Canvas, and its intensity automatically adjusts to maintain consistent energy output, keeping illumination levels stable throughout your shot.
Video showing the streaming viewport in VRED
Now, Autodesk VRED users can:
Video showing LightPaint the Sun feature
Positioning sun highlights on reflective surfaces just got effortless. You can now use LightPaint to place the sun in Sky content directly on your canvas or render views, perfect for dialing in those critical sun reflections on automotive surfaces and other reflective materials.
Video showing the new Lumi-Curve feature
Shape, Sculpt, Refine, with the ultimate flexible light source
Lumi-Curve introduces a unique approach to lighting in HDR Light Studio 9. Draw flowing, curved light paths that interact naturally with complex surfaces like car bodies. With precision over reflections, falloff, and light movement, Lumi-Curve empowers artists to craft bold, expressive lighting with intent, unlocking creative directions that rigid, fixed-shape lights simply can’t achieve.
Blender Viewport streaming into HDR Light Studio
The Blender Viewport can now be streamed into the HDR Light Studio interface, allowing you to use our powerful LightPaint tools directly on Blender's interactive render. Users no longer need to export the scene into HDR Light Studio or to arrange the HDR Light Studio interface around Blender's rendering viewport.
Video showing the new LightPaint® methods: Shadow and Shade
The new LightPaint methods for positioning lights in HDR Light Studio 8.2 offer increased creative freedom. In 'Shadow' mode, users can effortlessly position the light's cast shadow with just a click. Meanwhile, the 'Shade' mode allows for precise light placement to create shade on the clicked surface.
Reflection Filter in action
Craft symmetrical lighting designs around an axis on the HDRI with control over reflection direction, brightness, and alpha. The blend control ensures smooth transitions. The reflection filter is perfect for speeding up studio lighting for products and pack shots. Additionally, it offers creative uses for creating floor reflections and water effects.
A video showing scrim lights in the real-world photography studio, compared to scrim lights in HDR Light Studio.
Scrim Lighting is a technique used by professional photographers in the studio to light products, jewelry, and even cars. A Scrim Light combines a sheet of translucent material, called a scrim, with a separate light source illuminating the scrim from behind.
HDR Light Studio 8 adds Scrim Lighting that is easy to control, real-time, and renders fast in your 3D software. The light source is easily positioned behind the scrim using the interactive top and front views of the scrim setup.
