Defining Light Rays with IES

IES stands for the Illuminating Engineering Society, which is a type of file, in *.ies format, for describing the distribution of light from a light source. The IES standard file format was created for the electronic transfer of photo-metric data over the web. It has been widely used by many lighting manufacturers and is one of the industry standards in photo-metric data distribution. In iClone, you can directly apply the IES only to spotlights and point lights.

1. Create a new project.
   
2. Create a spotlight or a point light (in this case, a spotlight); make sure the light is selected.
   
3. Open the Content Manager and switch to the IES content library under the Media Template category.
   
4. In the Modify panel, scroll to the IES section under the Attribute tab.
   
5. Drag and drop an IES template from the library to the channel in the IES section.
   
   The light rays will be instantly modified.
   
6. Modify the settings of the light (color, strength...) to have the best result.
   
   
   Note:

   If you have installed Iray plugin, then you can render the project with it. The IES effect can be rendered more realistically.