What is sIBL? It’s a short for Smart IBL, a standard describing all informations and files needed to provide a fast and easy Image Based Lighting Setup in the 3d package of your choice.
More detailed informations are available here: http://www.smartibl.com
Installation on Windows is pretty straightforward, just launch sIBL_GUI.exe. In order to support third party images formats through FreeImage you may need to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64).
Open sIBL_GUI.dmg and drag sIBL_GUI 4.app into the Application directory.
The following dependencies are needed:
- Python 2.6.7 or Python 2.7.3: http://www.python.org/
- PyQt: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/
To install sIBL_GUI from the Python Package Index you can issue this command in a shell:
pip install sIBL_GUIor this alternative command:
easy install sIBL_GUITemplates are not included by default and can be downloaded from sIBL_GUI_Templates repository.
If you want to support third party images formats through FreeImage, you will need to recompile FreeImage with the following patch over it:
- FreeImage_For_sIBL_GUI: https://github.com/KelSolaar/FreeImage_For_sIBL_GUI
You can also directly install from Github source repository:
git clone git://github.com/KelSolaar/sIBL_GUI.git
cd sIBL_GUI
python setup.py installIf you want to build the documentation you will also need:
Once installed, you can launch sIBL_GUI using this shell command:
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