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title: "Irradiance Map Viewer"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VMAYA/111739602/Irradiance%20Map%20Viewer"
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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 Maya installs the irradiance map viewer in the folder </span><span style="color: #000000">**[Program Files]\Chaos\V-Ray\Maya for 20nn for x64\vray\bin\	ools**</span><span style="color: #000000">. A shortcut to the irradiance map viewer can be found within</span><span style="color: #000000">*** Start Menu***</span><span style="color: #000000">* > *</span><span style="color: #000000">***V-Ray for Maya ***</span><span style="color: #000000">*20nn > *</span><span style="color: #000000">***Irradiance map viewer***</span><span style="color: #000000">*.*</span>


- Windows: start the** imapviewer** executable from **C:\Program Files\Chaos\V-Ray\Maya 20**nn** for x64\vray\bin\**
- Linux: start the **imapviewer **executable from **/usr/Chaos/V-Ray/Maya20**nn**-64/vray/bin/**
- macOS: start the **imapviewer **executable from **/Applications/Chaos/V-Ray/Maya20**nn**/vray/VRay.app/Contents/MacOS**

Note: ***20nn*** is the Maya version.


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