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Lightmap has released HDR Light Studio 4.1, a free update to its real-time image-based lighting tool, adding a new Live link to 3ds Max and V-Ray.
Artists can now light their scenes with real-time feedback using V-Ray RT as the ActiveShade renderer and HDR Light Studio’s innovative interactive HDR canvas. Sophisticated lighting environments can be created in moments to perfectly light and reflect in your shot. It’s an amazing new approach to light V-Ray scenes, seeing the lighting interact with your materials in your final shot.
Latest issue of 3D Artist magazine is already released. In latest issue you can find concept and build fantastical environments with our guide for 3ds Max, V-Ray and Photoshop. This issue also brings 6-step tutorial for Sculptris for everyone who wants to know more about digital sculpting.
OTOY released a new stable version of their GPU based renderer, Octane Render 1.1 standalone. With current GPU technology, Octane Render can produce final images 10 to 50 times faster than CPU unbiased render engines, or even more with multiple GPUs (depending on the GPU(s) used). The new release comes with a large number of exciting features between which belongs the HDRI Environment Importance sampling which significantly reduce noise in scenes where most light is coming from the environment. Next, a new daylight model was implemented together with some post-processing effects such s glare and bloom which expand the possibilities of Octane Render even more. If you would like to know more about this great renderer you can check our review where we not only discussed the features and possibilities of Octane Render but also compared the speed and the results among the major renderers on the market.
SplineLand is a plugin for Autodesk 3ds Max that helps to generate topographically accurate terrains from a set of splines and lay roads. Without SplineLand it is almost impossible to achieve such accurate results in 3ds Max. You can do it quickly, in just a few clicks your topographical data in form of splines can become a terrain.