Michaelab opened this issue on Jan 05, 2012 ยท 123 posts
bagginsbill posted Fri, 06 January 2012 at 7:00 AM
People - please stop contradicting me without evidence.
I said:
"There is nothing wrong with IBL+IDL. The IBL acts exactly like the equivalent environment sphere with the same scene loaded on it."
Then Vilters, you said "When you have IDL, stay away of IBL and AO."
That's wrong advice. Correct is "When you have IDL, stay away from AO."
AO is the problem with IDL. There is no problem using an image based light with IDL.
An image based light provides the identical lighting contribution as an environment sphere, when used with IDL.
Before IDL, IBL was inferior. With IDL, IBL is equal - no longer inferior.
The only difference between and IBL environment versus an EnvSphere environment is the latter can be seen in reflections. That is useful, but it doesn't mean the IBL is junk.
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