by Albert Kiefer

The developers at HDR LightStudio have just announced version 1.5 of their high dynamic range image creation software. Now I almost always enjoy using my Mac system, but it’s on occasions like this that I cannot help but feel a little left out because of a really nice piece of software that I could use in my every day production of visualization or general 3D illustration work.

Just one look at the interface and the options in this package show that it’s a really very well rounded out package that enables you to quickly generate custom HDRI maps as a lighting map for your 3D scenes and instantly make your work look better.

Since High Dynamic Range Images can also be used in radiosity calculations you can use the image both as a reflection map (for the cool refelctions in a scene) and at the same time as an image map that drives the lighting calculations.




Let’s hope that somehow a nice OS miracle will happen and make these people develop this for Mac OS X too! I will still try and review this package on my Dell Laptop as soon as it’s released. I’ll keep you posted on my findings.