Winterclaw opened this issue on Jul 28, 2010 · 100 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 29 July 2010 at 8:35 PM
Quote - lol. :)
I'm not sure what an IES light is, but it looks nice.
IES = Illuminating Engineering Society.
And it's a file format.
The IES organization established a standard for manufacturers to document how their lights behave. These documents are used in high-end 3D visualization of lighting arrangements, in high-end packages like Max.
The manufacturers want you to buy their lights, so they publish settings for free. Which means there are literally thousands of pre-configured lights - all you gotta do is import them.
Poser users could not do this - until today.
I still have a few things to work out before I publish a new freebie.
Also, the IES file format has several variants. I've only dealt with one of them. Also, I have not dealt with asymmetrical lights yet. That will be a little bit tricky. So far I'm only dealing with round ones - ones that don't look different if you spin them.
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