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The idea of painting base lighting, is to control the lighting like with a standard lighting setup but instead of adding lights in the scene, you paint light in a map. This technique is not a new lighting technique, it is just the “Image Based Lighting” technique (IBL). The goal of Painting Base Lighting (PBL) is to be as flexible as 3d lights objects.

Hi all,
Just uploaded a new version of xPopMenu. All download links in the original article were updated so you can get the new version there. I’d left some useless test code lying around so I cleaned it out.
If you like this little gadget and have any suggestions, please feel free to add your suggestions in [...]

xPop is a great plugin by Reinhard Claus to display customized popup menus. This little python wrapper makes it even easier to use than it allready was for anyone who uses Python as their XSI language of preference.