IBL Stuff

Project overview

IBL Stuff is an Image Based Lighting Tool for Maya and Arnold renderer, it's a simple tool with a well organised user interface that allows look-development artists to easily load different IBL setups in a Maya scene.

Once the IBL is loaded, the tool provide the possibility to switch between IBL's and settings at any time. Deleting (or switching off) previous loaded IBL's.

Features

Switch between IBL's on the fly
Thumbnails and useful information
Hide/Unhide lighting checkers and Macbeth chart
Hide/Unhide shadow catcher
Hide/Unhide backplate
Environment offset controls
Animation turntables setup
Have the possibility to animate both rotations, asset and environment
Setup standard AOV's

Installation

There are several ways to get ibl_stuff installed on your system.

You can install it as a standard python library through its setup.py script.
You can clone the repo and add the inner ibl_stuff directory to your PYTHONPATH environment variable.
You can copy/symlink the inner ibl_stuff directory to your ~/maya/scripts directory.

... so many options, what should I choose?

My humble recommendation:

Users: copy the inner ibl_stuff directory to ~/maya/scripts
Developers: run setup.py or add the dir to your PYTHONPATH (you probably already know what suit your needs better).

Requires Autodesk Maya >= 2014

Usage

import ibl_stuff
ibl_stuff.show()

Or run it as standalone by typing te following in a terminal

python -m ibl_stuff

Nuke Tools

In order to produce high quality assets for ibl stuff, Alberto has contributed a nice set of Nuke tools to streamline the IBL creation proccess, you can install those tools by cloning the repo and typing the following on a terminal:

python nuke_tools/setup.py

Check other options available by typing python nuke_tools/setup.py help.

Contributing

Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug.
Fork the ibl_stuff repository on Github to start making your changes (make sure to isolate your changes in a local branch when possible).
Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :)

Make sure to add yourself to CONTRIBUTORS.md!

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