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HDR Light Studio 9 Automotive is built with vehicle lighting in mind - bringing sleek, expressive lighting to your automotive renders in record time. With the intuitive LightPaint® interface, simply click on your car's 3D model to paint in light: perfect for sculpting gloss, highlighting trim, or enhancing reflections. Perfect reflections, branded finishes, and polished details - all at your fingertips.
Automotive adds robust plug-in support for VRED, DeltaGen, Patchwork3D, and Unreal Engine - on top of industry favorites like Maya, Blender, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Houdini, Rhino, Maxwell Studio, Octane, and more. These Live Link connections enable real-time sync of HDRI and area lights, so your lighting vision stays intact anywhere in your pipeline.
Version 9 introduces the all-new Lumi-Curve - a game-changer that lets you draw flowing light paths directly in your render. Craft sinuous highlights along body lines, generate stylized glow trails, or design custom background horizons - all with a flexible light "brush" your way.
The software also includes real-time control over procedural textures - bulb, gradient, scrim, polygon, sky - as well as image-based lights, HDRI editing tools, motion blur, diffusion filters, and HDR Canvas compositing. Built for complex vehicle surfaces, HDR Light Studio delivers speed, precision, and creative freedom in one automotive-focused tool.
HDR Light Studio 9 Automotive is available as a 1-year subscription (node-locked or floating), complete with priority support (via email & web meetings). Installable on Windows, macOS, and Linux, it's the fastest way to create polished, pro-quality vehicle lighting that's ready for any campaign, showroom, or virtual prototype.
Basic Features
| LightPaint® - click-drag to place lights on your car model |
| Live Links: VRED, DeltaGen, Patchwork3D, Unreal + standard 3D apps |
| Procedural lights: bulb, gradient, scrim, polygon, sky |
| Image-based HDR lights with 200+ presets |
| HDR Canvas compositor - blend, mask, filter HDR/LDR maps |
| Motion blur & diffusion filters for cinematic sheen |
| Area-light emitters created in your host renderer |
| HDRI editing: blend maps, color adjust, horizon & blur |
| Standalone + plug-ins for seamless pipeline workflow |
| Cross-platform: Windows, macOS, Linux support |
New HDR Light Studio 9 Features
| Lumi-Curve: draw free-form light strokes on surfaces |
| Bendable, brush-like control over highlights & reflections |
| Use on area lights for precise projection & light trails |
| Create non-linear HDRI horizons & stylized backgrounds |
| Blend multiple lights into a single flowing curve |
| Adjust curve flow: brightness, width, falloff, ramp, roundness |
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System Requirements
- Windows: 10, 11
- Mac OS: 11.4 (Big Sur) or later
- Linux: Centos 7.9 and compatible distributions
Plug-in Connection Requirements
- 3ds Max - 2023, 2024, 2025 - Plug-in build 2024.1105
- 3ds Max - 2026 - Plug-in build 2025.0326
- Blender - 3.6.12 LTS and higher (inc Apple Silicon support) - Plug-in build 2024.0718
- Cinema 4D - 2023, 2024, 2025 (inc Apple Silicon support) - Plug-in build 2025.0518
- DeltaGen - 2019x and higher, Stage 2019x and higher - Plug-in build for 2025x 2024.1218
- Houdini - 19.5, 20, 20.5 (with Python 2.7, 3.7, 3.9, 3.11) (inc Apple Silicon support 19.5+) - Plug-in build 2024.1001
- LightWave 3D - 2018, 2019, 2020 - Plug-in build 2022.0513
- Maya - 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 - Plug-in build 2024.0327
- MODO - 15, 16, 17 (Windows and OSX) - Plug-in build 2024.0318
- Octane Standalone - 2024.1, 2025.2 (Windows only), Plug-in build 2025.0609
- Omniverse - Create 2023.2.2 and higher (now called USD Composer) (Windows only) - Plug-in build 2024.0403
- Rhino 6, 7, 8 (Windows only) - Plug-in build 2024.0307
- Unreal Engine - 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 - Plug-in build 2024.0807
- Unreal Engine - 5.5 - Plug-in build 2024.1113
- Unreal Engine - 5.6 - Plug-in build 2025.0610
- Maxwell Studio - 5 (Windows only) - No additional plug-in installation required
- Patchwork 3D 2023 - Windows - No additional plug-in installation required
- SOLIDWORKS Visualize - 2017 and higher (Windows) - No additional plug-in installation required
- VRED - 2020.1 and higher (Windows only) - No additional plug-in installation required
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