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IES Profiles

tobspr edited this page Nov 27, 2015 · 4 revisions

IES Profiles are a way to store the brightness of a light over several angles. There is a good explanation here:

IES Light Profiles

Example IES Profile (Can be found in Data/IESProfiles/AreaLight.ies):

IES Profile Preview

Using IES Profiles

Using IES Profiles is straightforward. First you have to decide which IES Profile you want to use. You can then load it with:

my_ies_profile = self.render_pipeline.load_ies_profile("Data/IESProfiles/XArrow.ies")
my_light.set_ies_profile(my_ies_profile)

Finding new IES Profiles

The pipeline comes with a set of pre-installed IES Profiles. You can find a list here: Data/IESProfiles/

If you want to find new IES Profiles, check out the links here: IES Profiles Readme