Alex Khan shares his Asset Lighting GUI Python Script for Maya which provides an interface for creating IBL (image based lighting) setups for Maya Mental Ray.
Maya GUI helps to automate image based lighting setup in for Mental Ray
Asset Lighting GUI asks for a lighting mode of either indoor or outdoor, where indoor will make a simple 3 point light setup using area lights and an IBL, and the outdoor setting will create a Physical Sun and Sky. Simply point to the HDR that you wish to use, set the KeyLight’s default color, and build lighting for your scene with a click.
Asset Lighting GUI for Maya also provides some handy selection controls where you can hide, move or reset the IBL or lighting in the scene, and also contains some simple tools for creating turntable animations with an animation duration slider.
Check out Asset Lighting GUI for Maya for Image Based Lighting Setups with Maya Mental Ray here.
