VW Studio Lighting Hdr

Free V-Ray studio lighting to preview your dirty materials and not only. Enjoy it!

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Technical info.

• Software used: 3ds Max 2011 | V-Ray 2.40
• Linear Workflow Gamma 2.2
• Resolution set 1000 X 1000 pixels.
• Three platform's colours. White | Grey | Black.
• Three render presets. Low | Medium | Ultra.
• One V-Ray light type Dome with HDR map from NoEmotion included.
• Download Hdr map. Link1 | Link2 | Link3
• One locked V-Ray physical camera.

How to use it.

• To select VW Studio's colour just change the platform's polygon ID.
  Set ID: 1 White | Set ID: 2 Grey | Set ID: 3 Black
• Materials & lights have 12 subdivis in Low presets.
  Materials & lights have 12 X 2 =24 subdivis in Medium presets.
  Materials & lights have 12 X 2,5 =30 subdivis in Ultra presets.
• To unlock the camera select both Camera & Target and then go to Command panel -> Hierarchy -> Link Info-> turn off x,y,z everywhere.
• For three times faster result turn on "Store with irradiance map" option in all lights.
  You will observe not a big difference.

Advantages.

• First of all it's absolutely Free!
• Its design is fresh & sportive for comfortable feeling by using it on a daily basis.
• Close enough to a real lighting studio concerning EV and Lights' units.
• Easy check of dirt as it contains antithetic grouts from the lower to the upper part.
• Enough good and fast result using both low and medium presets.
• Uniform sampling.
• Similar result using the three different shades of its platform. White | Grey | Black.
• A slight Curves correction is applied for a better contrast.
• Rotate VW Shader Ball 180 degrees. Surprise! It's double face with different logo :)