What is “Flux” ?

Its an approximate image based lighting tool for Maya. I was developing it for past few months based on few papers. more detail to come …

Main Features:

• Less Noise in Render
• Less Render-time
• Editable and Key able
• Precise Control over the result
• Ideal for lighting Fur, Hair, Fluids and matching lights with Live action
• Combines and interpolates multiple sets of HDRI
• Pipeline friendly; Exports centroids data to Maya’s native data structure
• Artists friendly; Customized “Attribute editor templates” for easy node connection and traversal
• Fast and responsive; Multi-threaded and accelerated using built-in kdTree
• Interactive modification of lights properties
• Output Statistics, verbose, diagnostic data

1. Release History

2. Download

3. Installation

4. Description

Workflow
fluxLoader
fluxLuminance
fluxSat
fluxMedianCut
fluxHammerslayHalton
fluxUserInput
fluxCentroidsTransform
fluxCentroidsEdit
fluxCentroidsField
fluxCentroidsViz
fluxCentroidsExport
fluxDecomposeMatrixArray
fluxGlobal
fluxLightsGeneration
fluxIBL
fluxRgbData Structure
fluxFloatData Structure
fluxCentroidsData Structure