Anyone who has looked at our large free asset collection will have already seen it:Jürgen Furrer’s new IES Library is online. You can currently download over 100,000 IES files free of charge from the site and use them for your commercial projects. You can organise them according to specific manufacturers, view rendered previews and other information. It is also helpful that the open source enthusiast has already removed potential duplicates when collecting and creating the data. With a target of over 160,000 files, the website should probably suffice as a single point of contact.
Use IES for your scenes
The industry standard.ies is used by most manufacturers, such as Philips, Osram or Delta Light, to describe exactly how the light from a lamp is distributed in a room. This allows more realistic scenes to be created – pretty much every DCC tool, whether Maya, Max, C4D or render engines such as Arnold and V-Ray offer support for the files. Blender has also had IES Light support with cycles since the 2.8 release. In case your tool only supports LDT, here is a short guide on how to convert .ies to .ldt.
Other planned features of the library include better sorting and searching for different data types as well as… Drum roll… a Blender plug-in! That sounds like a good plan – and it seems that the website is already well visited: At the time of writing, users have already downloaded almost 30,000 files.
Further information: To the official website
