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[visualbleeding]

hey guys,

I am trying to do the simple task of setting up an image based lighting node using MEL but this only seems to work if I have opened the render globals i am using the

miCreateIbl;

command. I want to be able to do it from a freshly opened file. Any suggestions?

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ok, i figured ill just script the render globals to load and then close after the IBL is created, here is my code:

CODE
setCurrentRenderer mentalRay;
unifiedRenderGlobalsWindow;
miCreateIbl;
window -e -vis 0 unifiedRenderGlobalsWindow;

[joojaa]

CODE
setCurrentRenderer mentalRay;
source createMentalRayGlobalsTab;
miCreateIbl;

it wil throw an error becaus eit loads parts anwew but no mattter it works. Anyway you sould rely look at what the proc miCreateIbl looks like in the file createMentalRayGlobalsTab; becasue if you do this in batch your a bit overdoing stuff

[visualbleeding]

thanks, that works too, and it doesnt have to open the render globals.

am I overdoing stuff? If I need to setup an IBL in over 1000 files, what options do I have?

[joojaa]

Foem amyas point of view, your loading stuff over and over again ita rather easier just to do the nodes manualy. Go to the source of things then you dont even need to source stuff wich mands it batches FASTER.

you can create the ibl node manualy with createnode and connect it to the ibl manualy with connect attr. its still only 2 lines of code but now your not overdoing it by loading a 1000 line codefragment.

anyway heres a example

CODE
{
setCurrentRenderer mentalRay;
$ibl =createNode -n myIbl mentalrayIblShape;
evalDeferred -lp ("connectAttr -f "+$ibl+".message mentalrayGlobals.imageBasedLighting");
}

im defeerring the creation of the connection to ensure the mentalray ndoes get built on time for the connection.

[dushyant-kumar-kashyap]

@Joojaa, thanks mate

[lucasm]

This is great, thanks for explaining this!