IES Lighting & V-Ray

[Mahoot]

Hi

I wonder If anyone can explain to me the process of including ies light file into v-ray.

I can't find a clear tutorial that takes me from the beginning, from having no such files on my hard drive to creating light on a model.

I run Sketchup pro on a Macbook pro on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. My V-ray is currently the demo.

I have followed a you tube tutorial from Lynda.com but it was done on a pc not a mac. When I tried downloading the files from that person used, a popup tells that the files are not supported by mac. I found another source that was download for mac and needed Winzip to open the files, so installed that too. Now when selecting a file and opening with Winzip another popup tells me that I have no app to open the file.

Im getting a bit lost on this so some help would be much appreciated.

Scott

[Mahoot]

Anyone?

I'm out of ideas. I've also bought Light Source Manager from apple but that appears to be useless too.

[rspierenburg]

So first off, you need to download IES files. Some work better than others its just a bit of trial and error.

You can check out this program http://www.photometricviewer.com/?i=1
It will allow you to get a sense of the light produced by the IES file.

Then in SketchUP go to the VRay menu and add an IES light. Place it in your model where you would like it. Then right-click on it, go to the bottom where is say Vray -> edit light. In the menu, go to options and input the location of the IES file in the File box. Next increase the power to something like 1,000,000 to see if it works.

Rob

[Mahoot]

Thank you for the reply Rob. Unfortunately iOS does not support the program you've suggested.

I guess it's not the V-ray part I'm stuck on... yet! Just finding a catalog of files i can successfully download onto iOS. and once downloaded, finding a way to view them.