Lookdev kit 2.7 UPDATE

General / 21 June 2024

This update has some new features that I made since the last update. 

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BLURRED HDRI will use blurred version of HDR image in the skydome. This is useful if you want to have blurred background in your turntables without using DoF. Or, your HDRI is looking "busy" and you want to blur out details a bit. When you do a refresh HDRs command, you will need to be a bit patient, it will take a bit longer because script needs to create blurred versions of HDR images. Also it will scale any HDR image to 4k resolution. On Ryzen 9 7950x this takes less than 1 minute, but on Ryzen 5 2600X it can take up to 5 mins. It depends on the CPU power in your PC, good thing is, you will have to do this only when you install LDV kit, or change/add HDR files.

BATCH RENDERING UPDATES 

First one is that I am no longer exporting ass file sequence and than rendering it with kick.exe. Now, I export one maya scene and than use maya render.exe to render it. This was one of the things that will enable use of lookdev kit with different render engines in the future. 

Second one is that now you can choose camera which you want to use with batch rendering, this is useful if you have multiple cameras, and/or don't want to use default lookdev kit camera 

Third one is that there is a Custom Range for batch rendering, where you can define frame range you want to render.

From this version I will test LDV kit only on Maya 2025. As always, if something doesn't work well, or you have a bug, just contact me and let me know.

More info on DOCUMENTATION PAGE

You can download it from FROM HERE