Update: HDR Light Studio Xenon Drop 4 – New Omniverse Connection

Lightmap has released HDR Light Studio Xenon Drop 4, adding a new connection for NVIDIA Omniverse, a new motion blur advanced filter and a couple updates to the connections.

What’s new in HDR Light Studio Xenon Drop 4

Motion Blur (Advanced) filter

Here are the additional features that the Motion Blur (Advanced) filter provides, above the standard Motion Blur filter:

• Curve and Tilt: The motion path can be curved in any direction. Use case: Replicating motion blur travelling around a corner in a car.
• Noise Profile: Noise can be added to the path. Use cases: Replicating the effect of road noise in the blur or to generate a creative lighting trail effect.
• Depth Image: Motion blur amount can be scaled per pixel by values from a loaded image. Use case: Paint an image to control where the map is blurred and by how much.

Documentation for this new feature can be found here.

NVIDIA Omniverse Connection Released

• Lightmap released its new HDR Light Studio extension for NVIDIA Omniverse™ – making the artist-friendly real-time lighting toolkit available to users of NVIDIA’s powerful multi-GPU real-time simulation and collaboration platform for 3D production pipelines. The extension creates a live link between HDR Light Studio and Omniverse, helping automotive, visualization and entertainment artists to create accurate photorealistic lighting set-ups more quickly, intuitively and creatively.
• Simply add the provided extension plug-in to the Create App in order to connect HDR Light Studio to your Create session.

Documentation for this new connection can be found here.

Blender Connection

• Added support for Octane Render and RenderMan
• Fixed scene export failure with versions Blender 2.93.2 and higher
• Single installer file for all versions.

Documentation for this connection can be found here.

3ds Max Connection

• Updated to use new faster API for the 2022 plug-in only
• Fixed a conflict with Ornatrix and scene export into HDR Light Studio
• Fixed renderer not being detected after closing and reopening connection panel
• Fixed crash bug when selecting a new scene and saving the scene
• Dropped support for 3ds Max 2019

Documentation for this connection can be found here.

Cinema 4D

• R25 Connection Added

SOLIDWORKS Visualize

• Fixed LightPaint bug positioning lights in the wrong place

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where LightPainting from hosts was placing lights incorrectly inside Composite lights with non default transform settings
• Fixed problem loading older HDR Light Studio project files
• Fixed graduation handed issue opening older project files

Lightmap HDR Light Studio Automotive

The fastest way to perfect lighting

Create the perfect HDRI lighting in minutes with HDR Light Studio Pro. Lighting shots are now fast, precise, and easy. Simply click on the model to position lights on a live HDRI map.

HDR Light Studio software provides 3D artists with a new way to light 3D imagery. Paint your shot with lights. The lighting process is now easy, fast, precise, creative, and enjoyable. HDR Light Studio builds lighting that is used by your existing 3D software and renderer. By adding HDR Light Studio, 3D artists become more productive and image quality improves.

HDR Light Studio ‘Automotive’ provides the following bundle of software, connectivity, and support.

Importantly providing access to the VRED, DeltaGen, and Patchwork3D Connections and providing the highest level of customer support.

HDR Light Studio + Connections, including VRED, DeltaGen, Patchwork3D, 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, MODO, LightWave3D, Houdini, Maxwell Studio, Rhino 3D, Octane Standalone, SOLIDWORKS Visualize + Priority Support via Email, Telephone, Web Meetings.

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Lightmap HDR Light Studio Pro

The fastest way to perfect lighting

Create the perfect HDRI lighting in minutes with HDR Light Studio Pro. Lighting shots are now fast, precise, and easy. Simply click on the model to position lights on a live HDRI map.

HDR Light Studio ‘Pro’ provides the following bundle of software, connectivity, and support:

HDR Light Studio + Included Connections: 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, MODO, LightWave3D, Houdini, Maxwell Studio, Rhino 3D, Octane Standalone, SOLIDWORKS Visualize + Priority Email Support.

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Lightmap HDR Light Studio Indie

The fastest way to perfect lighting

Create the perfect HDRI lighting in minutes with HDR Light Studio Pro. Lighting shots are now fast, precise, and easy. Simply click on the model to position lights on a live HDRI map.

HDR Light Studio ‘Indie’ provides the following bundle of software, connectivity. and support for Indie users:

HDR Light Studio + Included Connections: 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, MODO, LightWave3D, Houdini, Maxwell Studio, Rhino 3D, Octane Standalone, SOLIDWORKS Visualize + Email Support.

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