Maybe start by using a base HDRI map to the design something like this one, it's free:
https://polyhaven.com/a/empty_warehouse_01

You need to find a HDRI map that has a similar character to the feel of being in the velodrome. Then work on top of this removing unwanted lights and adding new ones in HDR Light Studio. Using HDR Light Studio to edit the HDRI map and give a more controlled lighting effect for the shot.

Hi Christopher, thanks for your question. We have been asked about this many times over the years. HDR Light Studio does not support creating a sequence of HDRI maps with animated light sources.

I would like to understand more about your use case for this? Why would you need animated lights in your scene, and why would you want them on the HDRI map?

At the moment you could make 3D area lights mapped with HDR textures using HDR Light Studio, and animate those in your 3D software? Could that work for you?

Here are more details about area lights: https://help.lightmap.co.uk/hdrlightstudio5/reference-area-lights.html

I look forward to your reply. Regards Mark.

Hi Blake, HDR Light Studio assumes the environment in C4D is set with default orientations/rotations. This way when positioning lights in HDR Light Studio, they match exactly in C4D and your renderer. So I am not sure why you are asking/needing to rotate by 0.25 degrees?

Our default settings should just work out of the box, as long as you don't change the rotation of the environment light in C4D.

Really we need a little more information to be able to help you, if you are having a problems with that. Thanks.

What a fantastic image. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

You can scale it to what you like 1.2, 1.5, 1.7.... it doesn't work like your other apps correct, but you do now have full control over its scale.

Please can you screen grab the windows settings you are using to control the HiDPI scaling. Also, do you have more than one display, what resolution and DPI is each display set to please?

It will have an effect, so perhaps a system restart is required for the environment variable to work for you.

Did you try my setting above, that I suggested?

I am sorry you are experiencing a problem. Supporting HiDPI displays is tricky and I don't think we have it right yet based on what you are experiencing. There are many variables and even bugs in Windows OS on how it's handling HiDPI depending on if you mix resolutions across different panels too.

To help we implemented a windows environment variable to further control the UI scaling in HDR Light Studio, for people with issues like you.

HDRLS_SCALE_GUI
Forces scale of the User Interface through HDRLS_SCALE_GUI environment variable. The value represents the scale size you want. 1 = 100%, 2 = 200% etc.

For example, to double the scale of the UI:
HDRLS_SCALE_GUI = 2

Please try setting this, and then restarting HDR Light Studio, see if this gives you the control you need over the UI, thanks.

Hi Gethin, what operating system are you using please?

Hi Claudius, you may be able to get the HDRI map working this way, but not the 3D area lights.

Nice commercial. Took a look at all your links too, wow, you have worked on some cool stuff... thanks for joining Neil!

That's right, the current build of the C4D connection does not support the new V-Ray version 5. We wait until software comes out of beta before writing the support for it. We are doing this as I type and we will have the updated connection for C4D out soon, with support for V-Ray 5. I am looking forward to this being released and getting back into using the new V-Ray with C4D myself. It looks great. Hope that helps Jonas. Not long to wait.

Welcome Stefan, thanks for joining the forum.

Hi Pegot, this is an interesting idea. Developing connections and keeping them maintained for so many applications and renderers takes a lot of work. I personally feel this use case is very specific and would make the connection far more complex and leads to more opportunities for something to go wrong.

I hope you are able to do all of the edits to the HDRI map in HDR Light Studio that you can do in Blender.... and much much more. I think the main issue you have is lack of support for HDR Light Studio working with Octane in Blender. We may support this one day, but it means supporting a special build of Blender and is really a totally separate connection to support and maintain. So we can only justify this if there are enough users.

The installer for the main HDR Light Studio app will uninstall the previous version during the install process. Then install the latest version.

The Octane connection is a bit weird in that you can only have one plugin version installed at a time. So you can update your 2020 connection to the latest version with the 2020 plugin installer, I think it has a couple of minor bug fixes. That should sort you out.

If you did want to try it with 2020.2 (which is in effect 2021 in progress with an updated sdk too), you could install that 2020.2 plugin, but it would only work with 2020.2, and the 2020 Octane would no longer recognise the plugin.

I suggest install the updated HDR Light Studio and the updated connection for Octane Standalone 2020, and see how you go with that.

Yes we have plans to do that. But we do not have a planned release date as yet.

Nice to have the programming skills up your sleeve too Carlo. Thanks for coming here. It's nice to learn more about our users here already.

It's not the first sex toy I have seen lit with HDR Light Studio :wink:

Sorry you are crap at drawing :lol: But you are great at 3D... so it's all good. Welcome!