Light Speed

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).

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.

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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