Transform Your Scene Lighting with IES Files: How to Make Your Renders Realistic | Blender Tutorial

[@SrObser]

Wow, after a couple of years playing around with blender, this is the first time I've heard about this! Great content!

[@JohnnyMatthews]

It’s kinda hidden but pretty cool.

[@79adyone]

Great concise tutorial, thanks for sharing. IES files typically come in specific CCT's and I'm wondering if it's possible to get Blender to recognize the embedded color temperature in the file without having to further manipulate it with the black body node? Without much knowledge of Blender my concern as a lighting designer would be that the embedded color in the file and the black body node are interacting in unpredictable ways (scaling due to the inherent color variances in the files). Or is the black body node absolute and will simply override the color temp data?

[@arch.blender1178]

Thanks Johnny, I was 'afraid to try' IES it all seemed too complicated, thanks to your video it's not that scary at all

[@JohnnyMatthews]

Yeah it’s not too bad.😊

[@screwdriver1337]

Great tutorial and very useful information on improving render quality and adding that extra bit of realism!

[@johnalsop3267]

This was a completely new feature for me, thanks for enlightening me !

[@rbrown2925]

Thanks, great demo.

[@djC653]

The BlackBody node info was awesome tnx for that too!

[@JohnnyMatthews]

Yeah it's super helpful for more realistic lighting colors.

[@rcrusselldesigns]

This is very cool, but how do you identify the light bulb that matches the file?

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

You can use any texture on a light, it doesn’t have to be an IES texture. I published some OSL scripts that let you create some fun effects. Unfortunately, enabling OSL causes the IES texture node to stop working, so I added a utility that translates the IES data into an OSL script for you.

[@CGToonStudio]

Where can i download?

[@djC653]

So I got a light pack off of LeoMoon and I believe it was through a Blender video I came across years ago and back then I new how to get them to work but forgot. Glad you made this video so I can start trying them out again, You Rock.

[@djC653]

maybe it was a video on the IES Light node itself and they showed where to get them from

[@GameMasterBra]

IES only works for point light?

[@CGToonStudio]

Why my add nodes panel isn't appearing?

[@CGToonStudio]

I got the solution, you have to be in cycles render engine not evee