sIBL_GUI

sIBL_GUI

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Introduction

| sIBL_GUI is an open source lighting assistant making the Image Based Lighting process easier and straight forward through the use of sIbl files (.Ibl). | 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

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Installation

Windows Platform ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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) <http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/8/0/A80747C3-41BD-45DF-B505-E9710D2744E0/vcredist_x64.exe>_.

Mac Os X Platform ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Open sIBL_GUI.dmg and drag sIBL_GUI 4.app into the Application directory.

Linux Platform ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

| sIBL_GUI 4 is currently not built on Linux because of several issues.

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 <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sIBL_GUI>_ you can issue this command in a shell::

  pip install sIBL_GUI

or this alternative command::

  easy install sIBL_GUI

Templates are not included by default and can be downloaded from sIBL_GUI_Templates <https://github.com/KelSolaar/sIBL_GUI_Templates>_ repository.

If you want to support third party images formats through FreeImage, you will need to recompile FreeImage <https://github.com/KelSolaar/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 <http://github.com/KelSolaar/sIBL_GUI>_ source repository::

  git clone git://github.com/KelSolaar/sIBL_GUI.git
  cd sIBL_GUI
  python setup.py install

If you want to build the documentation you will also need:

• Tidy http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Usage

Once installed, you can launch sIBL_GUI using this shell command::

  sIBL_GUI

About

| sIBL_GUI by Thomas Mansencal – 2008 - 2014 | Copyright © 2008 - 2014 – Thomas Mansencal – [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>_ | This software is released under terms of GNU GPL V3 license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ | http://www.thomasmansencal.com/ <http://www.thomasmansencal.com/>_