raven opened this issue on Jun 25, 2009 ยท 1706 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 08 July 2009 at 2:39 PM
No I didn't use IBL. I simply used my environment sphere as always, which is self-lit. The GI automatically sampled it.
I could use IBL and it would do similar sampling, but you would not have the positional effect, where moving an object changes its lighting. IBL ignores position - only looks at orientation.
With GI and the environment sphere, if you put a wall between the figure and the EnvSphere, then the wall will block the EnvSphere light and supply its own light. This would not happen with IBL.
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