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Welcome to the first installment of Ultra Genesis Studio – Box Lights! So what is this all about? It's about LIGHT. With Daz Studio's Iray rendering we now have the ability to render in physically based environments. Ok, but what does that mean? Well it means that we can take lighting into the real world – with the correct tools and set ups we can replicate real world lighting. In this volume of the Studio we will be exploring studio style lighting with box lighting, light panels, reflectors/bounces, and more!

The basis of this package is the mesh light - Mesh lights are different from normal 3D based lights in that they have a physical presence in the scene and any light emitting from them follows the rules of the Iray Physically Based Render (PBR) Engine. Not to go into a long speech about the physics of light, but this allows us to use mesh lights to recreate types and styles of lighting found in the real world. For instance, consider a lit clear light bulb – light is cast by the light so it travels virtually in all directions. Now if you were to put a shade on the bulb then a good portion of the bulbs light would be blocked and softened. It is those types of interactions that make mesh based lighting such an exciting tool to have access to.

The mesh lights in the package are based around the box light design – A box like shape with a light source (or emitter) in the base. The Ultra Genesis Box Light has a collection of morphs to change it's shape, control the amount of light being allowed to escape the box, and basically change the entire style of the light.

Below is a list of the installation package types provided by this product. The name of each package contains a Package Qualifier, which is used as a key to indicate something about the contents of that package.

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Not all installation packages provide files that are displayed to the user within the interface of an application. The packages listed below, do. The application(s), and the location(s) within each application, are shown below.

• You can find new icons for loading this product in the following DAZ Studio Folders:
  • “Light Presets:Ultra Genesis Studio:Environments”
  • “Light Presets:Ultra Genesis Studio:Mesh Lights:Box Light Rigs”
  • “Light Presets:Ultra Genesis Studio:Studio Props”

• You can find new icons for this product in the following DAZ Studio Categories:
  • “Props:Landscape:Ground”
  • “Props:Lights”
  • “Render-Settings”

• You can find new icons for loading this product in the following DAZ Studio Folders:
  • “Light Presets:Ultra Genesis Studio:Cameras”
  • “Light Presets:Ultra Genesis Studio:Environments”
  • “Light Presets:Ultra Genesis Studio:Mesh Lights”
  • “Light Presets:Ultra Genesis Studio:Mesh Lights:Box Light Rigs”
  • “Light Presets:Ultra Genesis Studio:Mesh Lights:Materials:Emitters”
  • “Light Presets:Ultra Genesis Studio:Mesh Lights:Materials:Reflectors”
  • “Light Presets:Ultra Genesis Studio:Render Settings”

• You can find new icons for this product in the following DAZ Studio Categories:
  • “Cameras”
  • “Materials:Iray:Lights”
  • “Materials:Iray:Props”
  • “Props:Lights”
  • “Render-Settings”

• A detailed users guide is available here:
  • 24321_ultra-genesis-studio-vol-1-iray-box-lights.pdf

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