CGTalk - Question about IES

bonestructure

11-26-2008, 05:53 PM

I'm just wondering if there are any IES files available for things like candles, torches, fires in fireplaces, campfires, natural lighting. I can download any number if IES files for manufactured lighting, but I can't find any for fire.

mister3d

11-26-2008, 07:15 PM

I think that such things don't exist. IES lights show a static caustic light distrubution . A light of a cande or a fireplace is constantly changing, it cannot be captured. For a candle it's even less important as it diffuses pretty much, for a fireplace you could maybe use something like a projected shot fire.

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