HDR Light Studio adds Area Light support for 3ds Max/Corona

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Hi guys,

We are really excited to announce the new Area Lights feature is now released for our 3ds Max Connection and it supports Corona.
I love how the Corona interactive view updates - blending between changes.

Here is a brief demo of how our new connection works.

It can save a huge amount of time to get your lighting right.
I hope you like it.

Thank you for the support of the Corona team with licenses etc for us to make this happen.

Happy lighting!
Mark

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Hm! What a coincidence. I was just asking a question about HDRLS and Corona. Is Corona fully supported?
Edit: Seems like it is! Now there’s just the small matter of motivating the price increase for the customer. :smiley:

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Hi, how can i connect Corona Render with HDR Light Studio?

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Hi, you should probably contact Lightmap for specific help, but I guess this is a good starting point: HDR Light Studio - Online Help Homepage

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I have 3ds max 2016, Corona Render (1.5 daily build) and HDR Light Studio demo with live connection.
Every time i get the exact same error :confused:

I wrote to Lightmap, but maybe you know where is the problem?

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I do not, but as I noted earlier, you should probably contact Lightmap regarding any problems with their applications. Corona 1.5 could be the problem. Does it work with 1.4 or 1.3?

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Hey I just noticed that corona works with this, havent made packshots in a while but this is good news anyway :smiley:

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I’m looking to use HDR Light Studio with Corona as my renderer, but this demo doesn’t show how you created the hook - which HDR needs in order to made the connection.

In VRay you use a Dome Light and put any old HDRI in the slot for HDR-LS to connect, but in Corona, there isn’t a Dome light so what do you do ?

Can you use a VRay Dome light ? I suspect not.

And the Scene explorer in the demonstration, whilst open to view, doesn’t show any Dome Light at all.

So how ?

******* UPDATE *******

I found the HDR seemed to make the connection itself automatically, so there is no need to use a Dome Light :smiley:

(I didn’t see how it did that, but one minute it wasn’t connected, then the next minute it was).

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Do as following:

  • Scene → use 3dsmax Enviroment
  • put into 3dsmax env map a Corona Bitmap with a temporary hdri (any hdri you want)
  • launch HDLS/3dsmax connection
  • it’ll hook map automatically, instead select it

That’s it.

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Thanks for that.

How I found it actually working was that in the HDR Light Studio Connection dialog box, in 3DS Max, you simply click the New button to create a new IBL Hook and that’s it :smiley: