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title: "Irradiance Map Viewer"
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<span style="color: #000000">The irradiance map viewer can be used to view, merge, and save irradiance map files created by V-Ray.</span>

## <span style="color: #000000">**Overview**</span>

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## <span style="color: #000000">**Installation**</span>

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<span style="color: #000000">By default, the installation of V-Ray for Cinema 4D installs the irradiance map viewer in the folder [ Program Files ]\Maxon Cinema 4D R23\plugins\V-Ray\	ools. A shortcut to the irradiance map viewer can be found within</span><span style="color: #000000">* *</span><span style="color: #000000">**Start **</span><span style="color: #000000">menu > </span><span style="color: #000000">**Chaos Group**</span><span style="color: #000000"> > </span><span style="color: #000000">**Irradiance map viewer**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>

Windows: start the **imapviewer **executable from **C:\Program Files\Maxon Cinema 4D Rnn\plugins\V-Ray\	ools**

macOS: start the **imapviewer** executable from** Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D Rnn/plugins/V-Ray/tools**

Note: ***nn*** is the Cinema 4D version.


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