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Light Console

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Lighting Collection 1 contains 4 plugins designed to make the process of lighting formZ scenes fast and effortless, allowing you to achieve higher quality lighting effects in less time. With Lighting Collection, you can make your lighting perfect, rather than "just good enough" in the same amount of time (or, if you prefer, "just good enough" in less time).

Pylon Light Console

The Light Console palette was patterned after mixing boards found in the theater and film industries. With Light Console, you interactively 'mix-down' all the lights in your scene with a single palette. This means you can achieve higher quality renderings in less time.

Color and simple intensity controls for all types of lights (including Ambient) are placed right up front, where you need them. It is no longer necessary to navigate multiple dialogs to perfect the distribution of light in a complex scene. Light Console can be configured to display up to 32 lights simultaneously. The default eight-light configuration (plus Ambient) is shown above.

Watch the Light Console demo

View the Light Console manual

Pylon Daylight

The Daylight tool allows architects and landscape designers the freedom to interactively 'move' though time, observing how the sun will affect their virtual structure throughout the day or over the course of a year. Moving the cursor in the modeling window scrubs back and forth in time, just like a non-linear video editor. Daylight was designed to be used with Interactive shaded mode configured to display shadows, or with small RenderZone renders.

Parameters can also be controlled via sliders or by typing directly into the tool options palette's text fields.

Additionally, Pylon Daylight can apply daylight savings time automatically, according to user-defined start and end dates.

Watch the Daylight demo

View the Daylight manual

Pylon Light Kit

Light Kit is a general purpose interactive light manipulator tool. All Light Kit's modes are interactive. As you change light parameters, you see the results immediately in the modeling window. No more clicking into each lights' dialog, making a change, then back out again... just to see if your adjustment had the intended effect. Light Kit's orbiting and targeting features make it possible to light an entire scene without switching viewpoints. Features:

Subject Orbiting

Orbit a light source about its center of interest by azimuth and altitude, while maintaining a fixed distance.

Distance from Subject

Precisely adjust the distance between the light source and the subject without altering the light's angle (relative to the subject).

Light Targeting

Clicking on an object makes a light point towards it. Simple as that. Optionally, clicking on an object can make the light emanate from the centroid of that object.

Live Intensity

Manipulate the intensity of lights in real time, keeping an eye on your progress in interactive shaded or a small RenderZone render.

Live Spotlights

On-screen, in-model manipulation of cone light angle and penumbra.

Live Projector Lights

On-screen, in-model manipulation of projector light angle and spin.

Live Point, Area, and Line lights

On-screen, in-model manipulation of light radii.

Watch the Light Kit demo

View the Light Kit manual

Pylon Light Sync

Light Sync allows you to synchronize lights with camera views in a number of ways. With Light Sync, you can make a picked light match ('jump to') a viewpoint you've set up in advance, "look through" a selected light, and use formZ's direct navigation tools to position and aim the light you are looking through.

There is an option to continue synchronizing even when you're not actively using the tool, so that whatever you're working on--- modeling, texturing, etc.--- the light follows, like a headlamp.

Additionally, with Light Sync you can 'target' your viewpoint and light to any object simply by clicking on it.

Compatible with the 3Dconnexion Spaceball; if you own this amazing device, Light Sync will allow you to aim lights with it.

Watch the Light Sync demo

View the Light Sync manual

User Recommendations

"I already talked about this plug-in at the office and they bought it today. It's amazing how fast I'm able to set a light for a particular scene. As an example I was trying to set the light of a FZ file for almost two hours and I wasn't happy with the final result. Fortunately your plug-in was delivered an hour ago. I adjusted the light with the Pylon interactive interface and got the exact light effect I wanted in just a couple of minutes. Light collection plug-in it's amazing. Keep up with the great work."

Carlos Rego

Product Designer

"I own both of Pylon's great plugins (Lighting and View and Navigation Plugin) and if you do purchase them you will not be disappointed. Considering their wonderful functionality, the cost-performance ratio is incredibly high."

Dan Shear, DRS Product Design (Responding to another user on the formZ forum)

Requirements

A licensed copy of formZ is required to use this Pylon Technical product. Pylon Technical does not sell formZ. Please contact auto•des•sys for formZ information.

The image above and the static renderings in the demonstration videos were rendered with formZ's RenderZone renderer, which is available within the formZ package by the same name. Lighting Collection does not alter the look or performance of formZ's renderers. Follow the link below for more information about formZ and the various rendering engines it supports.

Compatibility: This plugin collection is compatible with the following configurations:

Windows

Any Windows 32 or 64 bit operating system
The 32-bit version of formZ 6.0 (or higher) for Windows is required. The 64-bit version of formZ is not supported.

Macintosh

Any Intel or PowerPC configuration running Mac OS X
formZ 6.0 (or higher) is required.

Installers for both platforms are provided.

On file compatibility: formZ files produced with the help of Lighting Collection are 100% compatible with formZ installations that do not have Lighting Collection. Lighting Collection does not change how your files are saved.

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