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Subject: IES Lighting and easy editing for 3D apps (carrara biased)

SciFiFunk opened this issue on Mar 08, 2013 ยท 12 posts
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SciFiFunk ( ) posted Fri, 08 March 2013 at 11:23 AM ยท edited Thu, 23 January 2025 at 1:07 AM

Attached Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRhKNAQXmQE

How to use IES Lighting in your 3D app and how to edit IES lights. (Use them for volumetric lighting). More info and examples at facebook.com/scififunk

IES lighting (Illuminating Engineering Society file type to describe lighting volume, fall off and shape) can be used to add realism to your renders.

After describing what IES is and where you might use it, I show some site which give free IES lights and (more importantly) how to edit them (plus create your own IES lights).

Ultimately you'll probably have to create and edit your own (to match your work up against a source photo) and I show 2 programs which show you how to do this.

Please note, the pictures look better at http://www.facebook.com/scififunk (the colours haven't been compressed as you see them on youtube).

booksbydavid ( ) posted Fri, 08 March 2013 at 4:56 PM

Thanks.

Antaran ( ) posted Sun, 10 March 2013 at 9:33 AM

This is a great tutorial! Thank you so much! I was trying IES a log time ago, but did not find a good use for them, because I wasn't using it properly as you've done here. Thank you for the detailed explanation and illustrations.

If possible, please post the links to the sites you show in the video in YouTube description. Not everybody has Facebook :).

booksbydavid ( ) posted Sun, 10 March 2013 at 11:13 AM

Quote - If possible, please post the links to the sites you show in the video in YouTube description. Not everybody has Facebook :).

Ditto this request. Please.

SciFiFunk ( ) posted Sun, 10 March 2013 at 12:28 PM

no problem

http://www.iesna.org/

http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2873

booksbydavid ( ) posted Sun, 10 March 2013 at 12:35 PM

Thank you. :)

Antaran ( ) posted Sun, 10 March 2013 at 8:43 PM

Thank you!

SciFiFunk ( ) posted Mon, 11 March 2013 at 4:44 AM

It's a pleasure. More tutorials to come.

booksbydavid ( ) posted Mon, 11 March 2013 at 11:08 AM

Exciting! Waiting anxiously. :)

SciFiFunk ( ) posted Mon, 11 March 2013 at 12:37 PM

cool.

In the meantime, my Carrara tutorial playlist is here.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL511383E90B92CC0E

booksbydavid ( ) posted Tue, 12 March 2013 at 8:11 PM

That's a long list. Do you ever sleep? :)

SciFiFunk ( ) posted Wed, 13 March 2013 at 4:09 AM

Sleep. Ah yes I remember that.

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