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Just to keep you updated, the loader is now working with basic functionality. I'm just sorting out the multiple lights issue and one other thing I want to do, then I'll upload a working version. There are still some other issues to resolve that I'll need to ask about in these forums, but those are really my uncertainty about one or two of the parameters and won't prevent a functional version from appearing soon.

Sure Bob, it's on the way.

Steve

Sweet and nice doc also ! I need to redo mine from scratch and it's a pain !

KS

Thanks chaps, especially for the nice comments about the manual. I quite like writing technical documentation, so I hope it shows through. What I'm not quite so good at is project management, because the included docs are an older version and the upload should have had a newer version in it!

Anyway, the doc will be updated for the release version, so no harm done.

Steve

Release candidate now available

The attached version of the sIBL loader for C4D is a release candidate. All the functionality I wanted to implement is there and known bugs squashed (unknown bugs, of course, I can't vouch for!).

The manual has been updated and is now complete.

The final work I need to do, barring any last-minute bugs, is to recompile for C4D R10 and port it to the Mac. This will take a day or two, then I'll release it to the C4D community at large. As usual, any comments,  etc., please do let me know.

Steve

Release version

The release version of the loader for C4D is now available. I've completed the final tweaking and (I hope) debugging, plus compiled versions for release 10/10.5 and release 11/11.5 of C4D. These are different versions because the Cinema SDK differs significantly between  R10 and R11.

I've also cross-compiled it for the Mac, so it's available in both R10 and R11 releases for that platform as well, in the same archive.

Both versions are attached. If it's possible to add it to the ibl software/loader scripts page here at some point, that would be great, since then potential users can get it from here without having to go to my own site. The manual gives details of what I think is its compatibility with the sIBL 2.0 standard, in the same format as the page here.

I fully intend to develop this further, but at this point I'm going to release it to the wider C4D community and see what the reaction is (and how many bugs users find  ).

Steve

Yes, good Job, many, many Thanks 
We should do the version in the Smart IBL Download Section.

Hey,

Thanks for the praise - undeserved really, I took longer to do this than I should have done IMO.

Great to see it on the downloads page. When I update it - I've got some ideas and had some requests for some tweaks and features - I'll send revised versions so that the latest version is here as well as on my site.

So far it seems to have gone down quite well in the C4D community, so I hope it increases awareness of the sIBL method and more traffic here from Cinema users.

Steve