If you wanted to render your HDRI lighting design to a HDRI map file on disc, so that another user without HDR Light Studio could open this Rhino project, press the Bake button in the HDR Light Studio controls in Rhino.Ĭlick on the HDR Light Studio app and in the Production Render window, select a file location and give the file a name, using the Browse button, and then Press Render. If you saved your Rhino project now, it would have this high quality HDRI map embedded in your scene file. A high resolution HDRI map will be generated and shared with Rhino. Choose a resolution for your HDRI map and press Render. Once this has been pressed, click on the HDR Light Studio app and you will see the ‘Production Render’ Window. To render a higher quality, high resolution version of the HDRI map, press the ‘Render’ button in the HDR Light Studio controls in Rhino. If you were to save your Rhino scene now, it would have the HDR Light Studio project embedded and also the lo-res HDRI map shared from HDR Light Studio. You may want to place the HDR Light Studio interface on a second monitor, or adjust its size so you can also see Rhino. HDR Light Studio is now opened and connected to this environment texture in Rhino. Press ‘ Show Light Studio’ to start HDR Light Studio. When a HDR Light Studio environment is active, below it you can see the controls for the HDR Light Studio connection. Select HDR Light Studio Environment from the list and press OKĪ HDR Light Studio Environment 001 has been added to the Environments Editor Panel, and is active (if not double click the new environment to make it active, with yellow corners). Press the + button to add a new environment to your Rhino scene. Go to, or open, the Environment Editor Panel. check box is active, this means that V-Ray will use the active Rhino environment image on this dome light. With the Dome Light selected, ensure the Sync Env. This provides a much easier and faster approach to lighting your V-Ray shots, that will render fast too.

HDR Light Studio enables the real-time creation and editing of a HDRI map for lighting your scene.

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