bagginsbill opened this issue on Jul 13, 2015 · 68 posts
bagginsbill posted Mon, 13 July 2015 at 9:54 PM
Note: I plan to put this in the store. I don't know what's a TOS violation anymore - this site is so confused. If this topic is not interesting and mods want to delete it, then delete it. But I'd like to discuss it with people BEFORE they buy so it is the best it can be. So if we can have a discussion about this tool I'd like that.
I've been working on an sIBL tool for Poser. I'm trying to make it as simple to use as possible, but have at least some control over the outcome. It has parameters that respond to mouse wheel or keyboard for camera Exposure, environment Rotation, and separate intensity adjustments for Sun, Ambient light, and the Background image brightness. The wheel-based adjustments work in "exposure values" or f-stops, i.e. powers of 2. However, you can increment in half stops by default and 1/10th of a stop if you hold down the control key.
Here's the little dockable window to control it. The Pull down chooses which sIBL to load from whatever folder you have dropped into it.It scans subfolders automatically. Selecting one loads the HDR for lighting, the LDR high-res image for background, and automatically sets up the matching sun light.
The loaded sIBL is automatically rotated to match the Rotation value. So if you put it at 90, then the sun will be coming in from the right, no matter how the sIBL was originally oriented. I found this to be a nice feature - as I flipped through different sIBL sets the sun and shadows fall at the same azimuth. Of course, the altitude varies according to the sIBL - that's unavoidable.
Spinning the dials updates the preview in real time (well - close to real time - Poser is a little slow at some of the updates.)
Oh - if you don't know what sIBL is or where to get them - go look here:
http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html
Here is a sample scene with a bunch of different materials operating in the Bryan_Park sIBL.
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