This page contains information about V-Ray's standalone Irradiance Map Viewer tool.
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This external tool is installed with V-Ray, and its executable (imapviewer.exe) can typically be found:
Windows: C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\host application\vray\bin\
Linux: /usr/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/host application/vray/bin/
macOS: /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/host application/vray/VRay.app/Contents/MacOS
A shortcut to the irradiance map viewer is also installed in the Start Menu.
UsageThere are several methods of running the irradiance map viewer, which are outlined below. The simplest way is to double-click the imapviewer.exe file. This will bring up an Open File dialog box that lets you browse for a light map to open. This is the same as starting the irradiance map viewer from the Start Menu. The menus of the program allow you to do various things with the light map (merging and saving, etc). You can also run the irradiance map viewer from the command line. In this case, there are several possible choices: If you type just > imapviewer on the command line, this is the same as double-clicking the file. It brings up the File Open dialog for selecting an irradiance map or a light cache map file. You can also type > imapviewer <filename> where <filename> is the name of an irradiance map or a light cache map file. This file is opened automatically. A third way is to use the viewer to merge several maps into one: > imapviewer -load <map1> -load <map2> ... [-save<finalmap>] [-nodisplay] This loads the specified maps and combines them into one light map of the same type. If the -save option is specified, the result is written to the given file. If the -nodisplay option is specified, the resulting map is not displayed (otherwise, the viewer displays the final result). Options
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