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Lightscape Release 3.2

Lightscape™ Release 3.2 software is the industry-leading application for

lighting design and rendering. By simulating the true physical properties
of light and materials, Lightscape captures lighting effects not normally
obtained with conventional rendering systems. These subtle but significant
lighting effects, such as indirect illumination, soft shadowing, and color
bounce, produce images of unsurpassed realism.

New Features Newly optimized to complement the Lighting Design

• Support for AutoCAD 2000i AutoCAD® 2000i family of products, With Lightscape you can easily define, visual-
and earlier releases through Lightscape Release 3.2 is useful to anyone ize, and analyze practically any artificial or
DWG import concerned with the lighting of real or virtual natural lighting conditions in your scenes.
environments. Designers use Lightscape to Lightscape supports many industry-standard
• Interoperability with 3D
prototype and present to their clients how a photometric formats used by the lighting
Studio VIZ® and 3D Studio
building or an object will appear when spe- industry, so you can work with real-world
MAX® software
cific materials and lighting conditions are lighting products. A powerful suite of lighting
• Library of ready-to-use lumi- used. Digital content creators use Lightscape analysis tools lets you visualize and quantify
naires, blocks, and materials to illuminate and render compelling real-time the photometric performance of your models.
from leading manufacturers virtual environments for film, broadcast, web, Such “virtual prototyping” will help you better
• More than 100 improvements and interactive game applications. Upgrade validate your designs and avoid costly errors.
to user interface today to gain a critical competitive advantage.
Interactive Control
• Up to 50 percent performance Superior Presentations
improvement in ray tracing Lightscape stores lighting as an integral part
Lightscape software uses two advanced ren- of a scene’s 3D geometry, so you can interac-
with antialiasing
dering technologies, radiosity and ray tracing, tively walk through your fully rendered 3D
• Improved documentation and to accurately simulate lighting effects that models. At any point, you can change the
tutorials are not usually captured with conventional material or lighting conditions to rapidly
• Network rendering utility for rendering systems. These effects—including evaluate various alternatives. This interactivity
scheduling and distributing soft shadows from area lights, indirect illumi- adds a new dimension of productivity to
large rendering jobs nation, and color bounce between surfaces— design exploration and presentation.
produce images of stunning realism that give
you and your clients a better representation
of what your design projects will look like
when built.
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Lightscape Release 3.2

Geometry Animation System Requirements
+ Support for import of DWG files from • Professional keyframing control for cam- • Pentium or Pentium Pro–based PC,
AutoCAD® 2000i and previous releases. era animation. 200MHz minimum
+ Improved translator plug-ins for better • Spline-based camera and target path • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0,
interoperability with 3D Studio VIZ® and specification. Windows 95, or Windows 98
3D Studio MAX® software.
• Spline-based acceleration and velocity • 64MB RAM (128MB or more recommend-
+ Improved drag-and-drop tools to posi- control. ed, depending on scene complexity)
tion luminaires and other objects.
• Interactive previewing. • 1024×768×256 graphics card with PCI
• Object and luminaire library support. bus (1280×1024×24-bit double-buffered
Rendering with OpenGL-compatible 3D accelerator
View Control + Use network rendering utility to schedule strongly recommended)
• Interactive walk-through of radiosity and distribute large rendering jobs.
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• Radiosity renderer calculates direct and
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• Level-of-detail control for maintaining diffuse indirect illumination.
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• Physically based material properties. ing in animated scenes.
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• Templates for major material classes such • Rapidly display radiosity solution from
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• Texture mapping supports orthographic, tion hardware. To purchase Lightscape online from the
cylindrical, and spherical projections and United States and Canada, visit the
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ty and improve real-time display speed.
mapping.
• Ray tracing adds specular reflections and
• User-definable material library support. highlights, using direct and indirect illu-
mination radiosity calculations for image
Lighting quality and rendering performance.
• Physically based lighting properties that
• Software- and hardware-assisted
include color and luminous intensity antialiasing.
distributions.
• Batch radiosity and ray-tracing renderers
• Interactive 3D photometric web editor to provided.
inspect and define luminous intensity
distributions. Output
• Support for IES, CIBSE, and LTLI photo- • 24-bit or 48-bit image output to any
metric formats; data for specific lumi- resolution.
naires is available from manufacturers.
• 8-bit alpha channel for compositing.
• Sunlight and skylight control by location,
date, time, and degree of cloud cover or • Field rendering for animation frames.
directly by sun angles. • 360-degree panoramic image generation.
• Lighting analysis tools that include point • Export 3D radiosity solution to 3D Studio Autodesk, Inc.
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• Freely distributable viewing application
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• Support for isolux (color or grayscale) or for sharing native Lightscape™ solutions.
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