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HDR Light Studio
3D World UK
|October 2023
PRICE Indie licence £195/$250/ Pro £295/$380/Automotive £995/$1,275 COMPANY Lightmap WEBSITE lightmap.co.uk
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HDR Light Studio has been around for some time now, generating quite the reputation for its intuitive lighting of 3D scenes. One of the biggest benefits has been how it communicates with just about every other piece of 3D software via its plugins, making it easy to integrate into new or old pipelines.
An intuitive workflow and efficient pipeline is so key to many projects that tools like this sell themselves. Previous versions excelled with process and results, due to being feature rich with a shallow learning curve. Preview renders look fantastic and designing a lighting scheme in little time has been a huge benefit. So what could a new edition bring to the table to make the upgrade worthwhile? As it happens, a fair bit.
This story is from the October 2023 edition of 3D World UK.
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