Comments on: Broken (Matt Ebb) has brought IBL to the masses.

By: mbue

mbue — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:58:18 +0000

Oops, Wordpress doesn't like "" :)
That first line should look like this:

[your-path-to-the-blender-checkout]/trunk/blender

Martin

By: mbue

mbue — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:55:14 +0000

@Bob: It should work fine if you place it inside the

/trunk/blender

directory. Then simply run:

patch -i ibl06.txt

(Adapt ibl06.txt to the patch-file you actually want to apply)

Generally I suggest always opening up the patch file in a text editor to see how the relative paths look inside. In this example you'll see something like this:

[snip]
Index: source/blender/render/intern/source/occlusion.c
===================================================================
— source/blender/render/intern/source/occlusion.c (revision 14978)
+++ source/blender/render/intern/source/occlusion.c (working copy)
[snip]

That's a strong hint where to put the patch file.
(To be exact: It's actually where you run the patch command – the patch file could be located elsewhere of course)

Cheers,
Martin

By: mrmowgli

mrmowgli — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:31:25 +0000

Matt Ebb is my hero.

Too bad this couldn't have been wrapped into the official release of 2.46. Incidentally you can use HDR images in the world lighting settings to create reflections etc, but this will make things really work nicely. I assume he is using a spherical light probe? Polished ball on a stick?

By: Francisco Ortiz

Francisco Ortiz — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:48:28 +0000

Thanks a lot to Matt! Please Tim bring us more details about the "backstage" of this incredible achievement!

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:06:57 +0000

Thanks broken I used this at work today.
I was impressed with the quality, ease of use and speed (and more importantly so was the boss!! props to Maqs for the build too…)
I'm getting converts now and giving intro tuts to my co workers
Thanks so much for all your work
Simon

By: Redfender

Redfender — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:01:14 +0000

I dont suppose this can be render baked??

By: Rakunko

Rakunko — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:49:18 +0000

one more step to blender domination….er i mean ^^;;;
this will prove usefull to blender's fight with the big boys well to be honest…
blender is much better than lightwave…in terms of veiwing and ease of rendering there are a few points that lightwave has over blender for example the cel shading is way way more simple alittle dumbed down but its easier also the edge drawing is much more interactive where you can define each object to have its own edge line (cel edges) maybe once iam not lazy i might open a topic to talk about difference and pros and cons to blender lol ^^

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:25:26 +0000

Hi. I haven't ever patched blender. I've patched other stuff, but never blender. I've also built blender before (the old way and with scons). Normally I move patches to top level directories and run a patch command. But its yelping about hunks not found and such. Normally whenever I see this it means it can't find appropriate places to apply the patch. Should I move the file to a particular directory? If all else fails, I can apply the patch by hand (but the patch is big and automated is always more fun ;).
Thanks,
Bob

By: Matt Kean

Matt Kean — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:02:59 +0000

MS: look up lol.

And yes the render times are incredibly acceptable. See my tests here: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=121552&page=13

all images took seconds to render. And the build is exactly the same as 2.46, just a different splash screen thats all.

By: Boby

Boby — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:00:43 +0000

Sry, but can sb tell me how to use this patch? When I try to execute this script in Blender I see window: "Python script error" and in the console window appears : SyntaxError: invalid syntax. I installed python 2.5.2.

Please help