mikegg opened this issue on Jan 20, 2009 · 6 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 22 January 2009 at 7:02 AM
Other 3D programs do not treat IBL the same way. They take it a step further. Built into those tools is the envelopment of your scene in a giant virtual sphere with that image attached. Then that sphere is consulted in reflection and the specular lighting effect and the diffuse lighting effect.
Poser only uses it for diffuse lighting effects.
If you use my environment sphere, you can also get Poser to use it for reflections.
The last (and very important) component, the specular lighting effect, is a problem. The only way to get it, as far as I know, is to use a blurred version of the panorama and attach it in the material of an object, with the Sphere_Map node.
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