MODO LIGHTING PLUGIN KIT

"The software allows us to very quickly create very realistic lighting set ups for our CGI scenes. It has completely changed how we build our scenes and allowed us to massively improve the quality of renders we produce."

Sonoco-Trident

HDR Light Studio provides an ideal way to create a perfect Modo lighting setup. Use HDR Light Studio to interactively build an image based lighting HDRI map and produce results comparable to professional photography. The MODO environment material has a live link to the HDRI map being authored by HDR Light Studio. HDR light Studio also will build an area light in MODO, mapped with a HDR texture for a more directional light effect.

Using HDR Light Studio is way faster than adding Modo lights manually - for example an area light is built with a single click, and the shader network and texture are applied in an instant. There's no need to mess around in the shader tree with a light material or adjust the light with transform tools, this is all handled in HDR Light Studio. Moving lights on the HDRI map or Area Lights is a simple as painting their position on the 3D model surface in a live render view.

There are many light types you can use for your MODO scene, but using environment lighting in your scene means the final render is calculated even faster too. Image based lighting in MODO produces perfect reflections, illumination and shadows that work together to provide photo-real lighting.

HDR Light Studio's provide easy control of light visibility, light intensity, distance, shape and much more in your MODO scene. Lights can quickly be scaled larger for soft shadows. Photographic HDR light textures provide very natural light emission.

MODO renders lit with HDR Light Studio lighting plugin

See more images lit with HDR Light Studio at our gallery.

Installation Guide
MODO Connection User Guide

MODO 15, 16, 17 (on Windows and MacOS)
Renderers: MODO, Octane and V-Ray

See the Current Features Compatibility Chart PDF here