Would it be possible to add a spherical camera for iray or allow baking IBL? With iray as daz3d supports.



Warped Reality VFX.

That is very interesting! I did not know we could make 360 with Iray. Thanks for pointing that out.
While RL is thinking on a dilemma of integrating lens distortion feature into iClone, I would suggest to make an official FT entry for that.

But meantime, you might be interested to play with current release and manually add this feature:

* Do the Mi Export of any scene
* Add the following to the camera "Scene_camera_definition" section of the *.scene.mi file

    attribute string "mip_lens_distortion_type" "spherical"
    attribute scalar "mip_lens_distortion_scale" 10

Distortion type could be one of the the following:

"spherical"
"cylindrical"
"poly3"
"inv_poly3"
"poly5"
"inv_poly5"
"ptlens"
"inv_ptlens"

Distortion scale could be a positive or negative value (but I could not see much of the difference while playing with it)

There are some additional parameters listed in an Iray programmer's manual: http://raytracing-docs.nvidia.com/iray/manual/index.html#camera#14083

I only used the 2 options above and I got this render of the Loft scene:

                      

Warped Reality VFX.

No problem Kevin. Knowing about your experience *deep diving* into Popcorn FX, I knew you would be interested