HDR Light Studio users have been able to save their own ‘User Presets’ since the Carbon Drop 3 release. However there has been no method for managing these until now. Tungsten Drop 4 introduces a new User Preset Management panel that is opened using Edit > Manage User Presets. In this panel the user can Edit the Description and Tags for a user Preset, and also Delete user presets.

Enhancements:

Save Render View Images – This Project menu item has been updated to save out all Render Views as EXR files, both the internal and external rendered image when available.
Saving Render View Images during Production Render – Has been updated to save out all Render Views as PNG files with LUT baked into image.
HDR Light Studio ‘Project files’ are about 8 times smaller in file size in this release than previous versions. We now only save the active settings on each light in the project. Performance may be improved when used via a connection as a result.
The updated about box contains more information and a ‘Copy Details to Clipboard’ feature, which can provide our support team with useful information about your installation for trouble shooting.

HDR Light Studio Changes:

Reflection Fresnel settings have been simplified for HDR Light Studio’s Render View. Fresnel setting is now set using only an IOR setting. Removing the none physical approaches of ‘None’ and ‘Custom’.
Image Saturation and Gamma ‘up and down’ arrow button increments were too big and have been reduced to steps of 0.1. (Customer request)
Render Progress Bar now orange – easier to notice when a render has completed. (Customer request)
Render View and Canvas tool settings are no longer stored within project files. This caused confusion when a scene loaded and the tools changed.
Color Profile (LUT) dropdowns can now accommodate wider LUT names. These were truncated and with ACES LUTS this made them hard to correctly identify and select.

Connection plugins included:

– 3ds Max – 2018, 2019, 2020 – Plug-in build 2020.0305 (updated)
– Cinema 4D – 19, 20, 21 (Requires R21.1 (build 21.115) and higher) – Plug-in build 2019.1212 (updated)
– Houdini – 17, 17.5, 18 – Plug-in build 2020.0218 (updated)
– Maya – 2018, 2019, 2020 – Plug-in build 2020.0302 (updated)
– MODO – 11, 12, 13, 14 (Windows and OSX) – Plug-in build 2019.0710
– Octane Standalone: 4, 2018, 2019, 2020 (Windows only) , Plug-in build 2019.1211 (updated)