Quote - svl. yrs ago, katerina showed that poser IBL implementation very lo-res, with hole in polar area, such that even 400X400 map was overkill.  my advice: do not use IBL in poser 8 or later.  bill erred in saying IDL wasn't present in poser 7.  stefan added GIvariables to P7 for those courageous enuff to try them, but almost nobody did (unsupported).

Maybe she did, but I showed that 32 x 32 was more than enough for what people were doing then.

I don't understand why you advise against using IBL in Poser 8 or later? Why? It works fine as a source of light from outside your scene. If you're also using EnvSphere and you enable IDL and the sphere is opaque, then there is no need to advise for or against the IBL - it is not a factor.

As for IDL in Poser 7, that's a joke. You could make the same claim that the new hair shading node is in Poser 9. Yeah, if you like to use things that you can only reach by scripting, and also that work like crap - then it's there. But for the general public who like things to be reachable in the UI, and like them to actually work well enough to show the results, it's not there.

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