Skylights

Skylights is a command line tool to bake radiance and irradiance maps for image based lighting.

It converts an input environment map in equirectangular format into 3 cubemaps:

• Radiance
• Irradiance
• Environment map to use optionally as a skybox

Usage: skylights [OPTIONS] [input-image]

Arguments:
  [input-image]  Environment map to process

Options:
  -x <cubemap-side>      Side of the output cubemaps in pixels [default: 1024]
  -f <pixel-format>      Output cubemaps pixel format [default: rgba16f] [possible values: rgba32f, rgba16f]
  -e <encoding>          Output cubemaps image encoding [default: ktx2] [possible values: ktx1, ktx2, dds, png]
  -n <num-samples>       Number of samples per pixel when calculating radiance and irradiance maps [default: 128]
  -m <strength>          Scales the final baked value in the radiance and irradiance maps [default: 1]
  -c <contrast>          Corrects the contrast of the final color [default: 1]
  -b <brightness>        Corrects the brightness of the final color [default: 1]
  -s <saturation>        Corrects the saturation of the final color 0: grayscale and 1: original color [default: 1]
  -u <hue>               Corrects the hue of the final color in degrees. [possible values: 0..360] [default: 0]
  -l, --lut              Computes GGX LUT
  -h, --help             Print help

To use from Releases (Windows only)

• Download the latest release .exe from https://github.com/arturoc/skylights/releases
• skylights --help shows a help screen.
• If the application shows an error about a missing dll you need the Visual Studio 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 redistributable from this page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#visual-studio-2015-2017-2019-and-2022 Or directly download the file from: https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe Once installed skylights will work without problem.

To install:

• Install rust following the official Rust install guide: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
• Restart the terminal so the search paths are updated.
• Install the latest cmake adding it to the path and a c++ compiler, in windows Visual Studio 2017 or later, or Build Tools for Visual Studio with the Visual C++ option. In linux gcc or clang.
• Use cargo to install the tool:

cargo install skylights

• Now skylights should be in the path and can be called from anywhere. skylights --help shows a help screen.

To build from source:

• Install rust following the official Rust install guide: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
• Restart the terminal so the search paths are updated.
• Install the latest cmake adding it to the path and a c++ compiler, in windows Visual Studio 2017 or later, or Build Tools for Visual Studio with the Visual C++ option. In linux gcc or clang.
• Download the source from git:

git clone https://github.com/arturoc/skylights

• Build and run using cargo (add the corresponding parameters after the --):

cd skylights
cargo run --profile=debug-optimized -- --help

Skylights is sponsored by novorender