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I haven't used IES yet so I thought I'd give it a go but the plug-in doesn't appear to support it, is that right?

Of course it does. Add an emitter to your material - when it is in 'Color and Luminance' mode, you will be able to browse for an IES/EULUMDAT file.

I knew that!

Thanks JD

I´ll like to jump this topic with a little wish.
If is possible to have a "preview" of the IES material when is applied to an object like in Studio? maybe a serie of splines or something.
Sorry if I´m hijacking the topic.

Cheers
JC

I would take a special tag to do that, along with fundamental changes to how materials work in the plugin, so it is not a trivial addition.

It'd be a bit difficult to usefully portray IES as a line diagram in viewport, IMO. It might be nice if we could see the IES "shape" in a little 2D preview window within material attributes, though (IIRC, Blackstar's "IES shader" does this).

After the "Dichomic glass/LED" discussion (in main MW2 forum), one thing that would be extra nice is if there was some way, given an IES file, to provide guidance about the expected emitter shape/size. I'm not sure if there's adequate metadata (or if consistent enough across vendors) to do so, but if possible it could really save time.

You just gave me an idea...let me check something out...

For starters, how about this:

That would be helpful for a start - how does this work?

Pretty simple, I just added support for IES/LDT in the Explorer thumbnails plugin.

Hehe, will it also be added to the Mac Maxwell quicklook plugin, if not in there already?

I already asked Nacho and he said it should be pretty easy.

That'd be rather helpful, if possible. Thanks!