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7.1 Truelight MaterialsImage. The light sources will be positioned inside the projection sphere of theSphere Environment Material. They will be orientated to its center position.The light sources will be created based on the HDR image examination. Thebrightest pixel’s intensity, color, orientation and position are evaluated to createnew light sources.» Flip Inside Out: Flips the normals of the Environment Sphere.» Emit Caustics: Activates/deactivates Emit Caustics. Allows the HDR to emitcaustics. Only supported in FullGI illumination mode with caustics.» Is Visible: Sets the light source to on by default.» Use as Lightsource: Uses the HDR als light source. Only supported in FullGIillumination mode.» Use as Default Environment: Selects current environment as default for newlycreated TrueLight materials (see materials’ Common Settings).» HDR Light Studio The HDR image of a Sphere Environment can be interactivelycreated using HDR Light Studio by Lightmap LTD. This part of the GUI will beonly visible if a demo or full version of HDR Light Studio is detected by VREDon startup.» Edit & Load Settings: Opens HDR Light Studio and tries to load a project thathas been saved for this material. If no project has been previously saved forthis material you will start with a blank canvas. Please note, that the currentHDR image will be replaced. All changes made on the HDR Light Studio canvasare immediately applied to the HDR image of the connected VRED SphereEnvironment.» Save Settings: Internally saves the HDR Light Studio project for the SphereEnvironment that you are currently editing.» LightPaint: This feature is available since HDR Light Studio version 4.0. Theintegration of LightPaint within VRED allows you to directly click in the VREDrender window to position your light sources in the HDR image such that, forexample, the current light source will reflect in that position. Please refer to237