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I successfully installed the Loader plugin for c4d r12, but I don't see the preset list. Is there something else that needs installing that I'm missing?

Thanks Bob, I followed the manual instructions to the letter, but no luck. It says I have loaded 3 collections in the prefs panel, but nothing shows in the presets panel.
Kind of frustrated...

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I can tell you for certain that the loader works with R12 on the Mac

I'm not sure at the moment why you're having problems. If you've pointed the loader to a collection, and that's a valid path on your machine, then the loader should read any sIBL sets in that path. So, I know it's a silly question, but just to check, have you downloaded some sIBL sets from the archive on this site or elsewhere? I ask because if you don't have any sets yet, you won't see anything in the preset browser.

Secondly, if you do have some sets, are they in the correct hierarchical layout as specified in the manual? It should look something like this:

- collection folder
         |
         -> set folder 1
         |    |
         |     -> .ibl file
         |    |
         |     -> various image files
         |
         -> set folder 2
         |
         -> set folder 3
         |
         -> etc., etc.

You MUST have it set up so that each sIBL set is in its own folder which is a sub-folder of the collection. The loader must be pointed at the collection; if you point the loader directly at a set folder (i.e. one which contains a file with the extension .ibl) it will not work.

Can you check these things and let us know the results?

Steve
(C4D loader plugin author)

I have a simple question about the sIBL plugin.
Firstly...thanks to spedler for doing this

I'm using c4d r12 and I typically work in 'Linear' mode.
I see that the sIBL has a tick box for linear as well.  If I'm working in Linear within c4d should I also tick this box in the sIBL or leave unchecked?

thanks,
Rick

awesome....thanks so much.

Rick

This isn't so simple. It's a big hole in Cinema's compositing tag, IMO. There are three possibilities:

1- try the shadow catcher plugin that's been around for a long while now - it might work for you
2 - see the maxon tutorial on cineversity about this (of course, this may be no more than what you're already doing)
3 - use Vray, which handles this without any problem

Sorry I can't be of more help, but there'e no easy answer to this one in C4D unfortunately. If you search on cg talk and at c4d cafe, you'll find a lot of threads about this.

Steve

Thank's for doing this, it is an outstanding plugin!!!

Now I'm just going to figure out how to make my own sets!