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UltraLight: The Ultimate Studio Lighting Tool
The UltraLight is a procedural softbox/light source building tool aimed at high-quality and ultra-realistic renders and studio quality lighting. One tool that can create an infinite range of light sources.
- Supported Platforms
- Supported Engine Versions5.3 - 5.4
- Download TypeAsset PackThis product contains an assortment of Unreal Engine assets which can be imported into a pre-existing project of your choice.
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** v1.3.0 Released! **
New Features & Updates:
- IES Lights
- Custom Light Plane shapes (use any Static Mesh as a practical light!)
- Radial Gradients:
- a 2nd gradient has been added to create more intricate light effects
- New rotation and single-row spots parameter to better control the style & orientation of the gradient effects.
- New and improved shell geometry with better detail and a full inside for use without the Light Plane
As well as many minor updates and fixes. See the update video on Youtube for more!
https://youtu.be/VuSUKgZ1CLE
The UltraLight is a procedural softbox/light source building tool aimed at high-quality and ultra-realistic renders and studio quality lighting. Create lights of any shape or style with one simple tool!
UltraLight combines native Unreal Engine light sources with a customizable and texturable emissive plane that includes a full range of procedural gradient tools and a built-in gobo system, and optional light geometry shapes. It is the most versatile and high-quality cinematic lighting tool available. Make lights of any shape or style, separate light sources from reflections for the ultimate control over the look and feel of your scenes, and match the cinematic quality of professional studios.
Based on real-world photographic tools and 30+ years of professional photographic and CG lighting/rendering experience, UltraLight was originally developed as an in-house tool at Heavy Artillery Studios and is being shared now for the first time.
Project includes a lighting demonstration level with multiple lighting scenarios. All models are free to use in your own projects.
Examples and more information can be found at: www.heavyartillery.com/ultralight
Tutorials & Instructions:
For a quick overview of what it can do check the demo video:
https://vimeo.com/heavyartillerystudio/intro-ultralight
For an overview of all the parameters and how they work:
https://youtu.be/zWcUNAirGZs v 1.2
https://youtu.be/VuSUKgZ1CLE v 1.3
Join our customer-only discord server for help and advice on UltraLight and CG lighting in general.
https://discord.gg/rMB8xzPRsz
More tutorial videos will be coming soon - keep an eye on our Youtube and ArtStation pages!
* This product supports Lumen for Unreal Engine 5.0+
* Text3D plugin required only for demo levels. You can enable or disable it from the Plugin Settings at any time.
Technical Details
Features:
- Integrated native UE lights (Rect Light, Spot Light, and Point Light. )
- Light Plane:
- Light plane to control speculars/reflections separately from the light intensity/position
- Parametric/Procedural softbox generator
- Custom Light Plane geometry (use any Static Mesh as a light source!)
- Built-in shell geometry for common softbox shapes (rectangular, octo, hex, and round) with organic deformation versions for extra realism. (8 shapes total)
- IES Lights
- Use your own custom texture maps.
- Fully adjustable scale, tiling, rotation, blurring
- Color & contrast controls
- Integrated Procedural Tools include:
- Linear & radial gradients
- Overlay noise texture
- Cropping/Frame gradients
- Look-at/Light targeting
- Gobo/cookie system to craft light & make incredibly detailed shadow patterns
- All parameters animatable.
- Works w/ the real-time engine, Path Tracer, Lumen, & ray-tracing
- No external plug-ins & leverages built-in UE tools, so it should work for almost any version of Unreal Engine and be highly future-proof!
Number of Blueprints: 1
Windows: Yes
Documentation: https://youtu.be/zWcUNAirGZs
Important/Additional Notes: This tool is primarily designed for cinematics and high-quality offline rendering. It is optimized for quality, over performance, but disabling the lightplane/geometry it can be used as basic Unreal lights, or anywhere in between so optimization is very easy.
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