HDR Light Studio 9 Drop 4 released
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What's New - HDR Light Studio 9 Drop 4

STREAMING VIEW CONTROLS AND ISOLATE LIGHT

Added in HDR Light Studio 9 Drop 4

The Streaming Render View now includes full navigation controls - zoom, pan, region zoom, 1:1 pixel view, and fit-to-view - letting you explore every detail of your live render without affecting the camera or triggering a re-render. Middle mouse scroll and button provide quick zoom and pan while any tool is active. Alongside this, you can now press 'S' to instantly solo the selected light and hide all others, then press 'S' again to restore - no need to reach for the light list. Used together, these new controls create an amazingly smooth workflow for exploring and perfecting the lighting in your shots.

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Video showing Streaming View Controls and Isolate Light (Pressing 'S' key)

Video showing Energy-Conserving Light Scaling with Shift Key

ENERGY-CONSERVING LIGHT SCALING

Added in HDR Light Studio 9 Drop 3

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.

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Video showing the streaming viewport in VRED

STREAMING VIEWPORT COMES TO VRED

Added in HDR Light Studio 9 Drop 2

Now, Autodesk VRED users can:

  • Work entirely within HDR Light Studio's optimized lighting interface
  • Light directly on the live VRED viewport
  • Use the complete range of LightPaint tools and methods
  • Drag and drop lighting presets directly into your scene
  • Switch between VRED cameras to review lighting instantly
  • Now light efficiently with just one display
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Video showing LightPaint the Sun feature

LIGHTPAINT THE SUN

Added in HDR Light Studio 9 Drop 2

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.

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Video showing the new Lumi-Curve feature

Lumi-Curve

Added in HDR Light Studio 9

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.

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Blender Viewport streaming into HDR Light Studio

New Blender Add-on Workflow

Added in HDR Light Studio 8.2.2

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.

New Blender Workflow Tutorial

Video showing the new LightPaint® methods: Shadow and Shade

LightPaint®: Shadow & Shade

Added in HDR Light Studio 8.2

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.

Shadow & Shade Tutorial

Reflection Filter in action

Reflect Your Lighting Designs

Added in HDR Light Studio 8.2

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.

Reflection Filter Tutorial

A video showing scrim lights in the real-world photography studio, compared to scrim lights in HDR Light Studio.

Light Like a Pro with Scrim Lights

Added in HDR Light Studio 8.1

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.

Scrim Light Tutorial

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