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Couple things I'd love to see with IES files:
1) I'd love it if I could drag the IES file from one light to another. (Or be able to hit "Copy" and then "Paste" into another light to replace the old file.)
2) I'd love it if I could drag the vrayies light into my material editor to save for later. Sometimes when I'm trying different HDRI's or textures I'll leave a copy in my material editor to come back to later, but this is much harder with IES. It doesn't help that most IES files are named nonsense and in a folder with 200 others so it can be tedious to go find them later. I find my current workflow is to just duplicate the light and hide it to access later, but this can get messy with multiple people working in a scene. I'm not sure if there are interpretation options for many IES files, but if there are having them accessible from there would be nice. For example, for a lot of IES files I've found that the power is incorrect by the manufacturer, likely because the engineers put the power as a separate entity from photometric web, so we get some strange things occasionally in the field. It would be pretty awesome of that light node in the material editor listed other entries of the IES file parse so we can 'override' the photometric web with another data entry, eventually finding the correct "power". It may even just be a huge list of numbers with "override power" next to each. I know this is probably a very hard task, just spitballing.
3) Can IES never affect reflections? Would be great if they could.
Long time fan...
1) I'd love it if I could drag the IES file from one light to another. (Or be able to hit "Copy" and then "Paste" into another light to replace the old file.)
2) I'd love it if I could drag the vrayies light into my material editor to save for later. Sometimes when I'm trying different HDRI's or textures I'll leave a copy in my material editor to come back to later, but this is much harder with IES. It doesn't help that most IES files are named nonsense and in a folder with 200 others so it can be tedious to go find them later. I find my current workflow is to just duplicate the light and hide it to access later, but this can get messy with multiple people working in a scene. I'm not sure if there are interpretation options for many IES files, but if there are having them accessible from there would be nice. For example, for a lot of IES files I've found that the power is incorrect by the manufacturer, likely because the engineers put the power as a separate entity from photometric web, so we get some strange things occasionally in the field. It would be pretty awesome of that light node in the material editor listed other entries of the IES file parse so we can 'override' the photometric web with another data entry, eventually finding the correct "power". It may even just be a huge list of numbers with "override power" next to each. I know this is probably a very hard task, just spitballing.
3) Can IES never affect reflections? Would be great if they could.
Long time fan...
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