I found it a bit difficult to find out how to make working sIBL GUI with Blender, so I recorded little tutorial on how to. Hope you find it useful.
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Free hdri maps and sIBL sets
http://hdrmaps.com/freebies
sIBL plugin for Blender
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/sIBL_GUI
sIBL GUI template for Blender
https://github.com/jedfrechette/sIBL_GUI_Templates/tree/feature/blender
Thank you very much for taking the time to put this together, it was very helpful. One question I have is after you first installed the stand alone program HDRI GUI, you then had to also install a blender cycles template.
My question is… will the cycle template installation only have to be need to do once? So the next time I want to use the blender addon for this program, will the template still be there?
Thanks again, for posting this.
Yes, you install it only once. When you create new project it is still there; you need to start server of course every time and relaunch sIBL GUI.
Good of you to put this out. I must admit, when I first tried to get SiBL working i hit problems, but managed to get it working in the end, only on my 64 bit machine though.