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New Lighting Options

Improving upon the already impressive lighting capabilities of its previous version, Filter Forge 2.0 introduces a set of new options that give you more creative freedom in lighting design:

• Shadowing via ambient and reflective occlusion
• Point and area lights
• Ambient lighting (supports HDR colors, can be negative)
• Brightness multiplier extended to 1000% (was 500%)
• Full 360-degree lighting environment rotation
• Ability to rotate the environment along horizontal and vertical axes separately
• Ability to reset environment rotation

Redesigned Lighting Interface

To accommodate these new features, we have completely redesigned the Lighting tab in Filter Controls. The new interface allows you to adjust all lighting elements – HDRI environment, surface height, point/area lights, ambient lighting, and ambient occlusion – using a simple unified interface. The new lighting control represents the entire lighting setup as several selectable elements, with the properties for the selected element displayed below the control.

Selecting the HDRI Environment sphere lets you adjust environment parameters such as rotation and brightness, as well as Surface Height:

Selecting the Ambience band around the environment sphere lets you adjust the color of the Ambient Light and parameters of ambient and reflective occlusion:

And finally, selecting any of the Lights lets you adjust their colors and properties: