Studio Kits

A kit is a complete look: the lights, the world colour and the backdrop colour. RedLight ships 60 of them in 7 categories.

Applying a kit

1. Open Studio Kits.
2. Choose a category in the dropdown, or leave it on All Kits.
3. Click the thumbnail to open the grid and pick a kit. Its description appears under the thumbnail.
4. Click Apply Kit.

What a swap keeps

Applying a kit replaces only the lights that came from a kit. It keeps:

• lights you added with Add Light,
• the floor and cameras,
• your backdrop's shape and size (only its colour changes).

Set World and Set Backdrop

Two toggles under Apply Kit, both on by default.

Toggle	On	Off
Set World	The kit sets the world (background) colour. This replaces a RedLight HDRI.	Your world is left alone. Use this to keep an HDRI.
Set Backdrop	The kit sets the backdrop colour, and creates its backdrop if the rig has none.	No backdrop is created or recoloured.

Categories

Category	Kits	For
Product	5	Clean, even light for products and packshots
Portrait	5	Classic portrait patterns for characters and busts
Dramatic	10	Low-key, hard-light and stage looks
Colour Mood	12	Coloured gels, tinted sets and coloured shadows
Glass & Jewellery	11	Edge strips and shaped reflections for glossy surfaces
Natural	5	Sun, sky and window looks
Projection	12	Patterns: blinds, windows, grids, dapple, scanlines

Every kit is listed with its preview in the Kit List.

Projection kits

Projection kits throw a pattern across the scene. Each one places a black mask with holes in it in front of a spot light, so the pattern is a real shadow. That is why they work in EEVEE as well as Cycles.

• The mask is parented to its light. Move or aim the light and the pattern follows.
• The mask cannot be selected in the viewport, so you can't knock it out of place. It is hidden from the camera.
• Deleting the light, or swapping the kit, removes its mask.
• A larger Radius on the light gives softer pattern edges.