Originally posted by dilberts
gster123. It stands for Image Based Lighting, and means the use of a High Dynamic Range Image to light the scene rather than physical lights. I just posted an explanation of the setup in the WIP forum if you want to take a look. In my opinion this is the way to get the most realistic renders. Unfortunately, it absolutely kills your RAM, and if the scene gets real big (like this bike), unless you have a supercomputer your system will often crash when it runs out of RAM during the render.
Cheers for that, i've never heard it refered to as a IBL render before, just started to play around with them, I'll have a look at the set up in your other post