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Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

Real-time lighting design software can now 'paint' highlights and shadows directly into interactive renders from Blender.

Wednesday, July 17th, 2024

Check out the new features in the real-time lighting design software, including new shadow modes for the signature LightPaint system.

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

New plugin lets visualization artists use lighting design tool HDR Light Studio for more precise control over models being rendered in UE5.

Thursday, December 7th, 2023

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Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Real-time lighting app gets neat new Scrim Light type mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023

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Monday, November 28th, 2022

Recreate real studio lighting in visualisations and portfolio renders. EXR format, for commercial use.

Sunday, October 30th, 2022

Update makes new Omniverse connection plugin available to all users of the lighting design tool.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022

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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021

New 'Xenon' update makes the real-time lighting tool available to Blender users for the first time.

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020

Check out the changes to the presets system in the latest update to the real-time lighting design tool.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.

Thursday, October 25th, 2018