Lighting Plugin for Sketchup

AdamB

adam,

thank you for your patience. fake emitters understood. i went back to the skippy and played some with it.

as for the Irradiance Cache, understood in theory . i have yet to see it in action to fully grasp the idea.

regards.

I'm planning a video tutorial very soon.

Adam

Pixero

Is it possible (or can you make it) so that we could export the model with baked lighting?

Efrado

Thanks ADAM for this your astounding work
which promises to be an incomparable and fast tool for rendering the SU projects.

I am going to start studing the documentation.

By the way did you find the corkscrew? Ihope so. Drink a big sip for me

david_h

Thanks Adam. I just got my DEMO and docs. Anxious to play with it. Congrats!

REGIS

Hi Adam and thanks for your plugin.

I'm playing with light up now but I don't find the point light component in the component's window.
Where is it gone

Thanks.

@+

Edson

@regis said:

Hi Adam and thanks for your plugin.

I'm playing with light up now but I don't find the point light component in the component's window.
Where is it gone

Thanks.

@+

it is there, but one does not see it. click on the white space.

REGIS

Thanks Edson it's OK.

Efrado

I reproduced the steps shown in the video tutorial but what I get is a white screen.
what I am doing Wrong?

pmiller

For all those who are unable to unzip* the file (blocked), is there any chance of a new zip file?

*despite using properties to unblock. BTY this zip file is the first I have ever encountered that will not unzip.

Edson

@efrado said:

:? I reproduced the steps shown in the video tutorial but what I get is a white screen.
what I am doing Wrong?

have you tried reversing faces?

Efrado

Hi Edson,Yes I always check that,

I wonder if it could be a graphic processor problem?

I use a tablet PC with GP Intel(R)

thanks

ilay7k

@unknownuser said:

Is it possible (or can you make it) so that we could export the model with baked lighting?

i want too to ask...i remember some technics from skindigo by Dale Martens (aka Whaat and thanks a'lot for it): exporting of photo matched picture...Can we use sample preset to do it?

AdamB

@efrado said:

Hi Edson,Yes I always check that,

I wonder if it could be a graphic processor problem?

I use a tablet PC with GP Intel(R)

thanks

Might be. You could try Tools->LightUp->Force Simple Rendering, then restart to pick up the change.

Adam

AdamB

@edson said:

@efrado said:

:? I reproduced the steps shown in the video tutorial but what I get is a white screen.
what I am doing Wrong?

have you tried reversing faces?

LightUp only draws front faces so Edson is right, checking your faces are the correct way and/or fly around the model to check they're not facing the opposite way you expected!

You might also set a non-white background to be sure its not white materials on a white background rather than not drawing anything.

Although they will be fixed, right now LightUp has problems with:

groups of groups
components inside components
Instance/Group materials
Highly tessellated geometry.

Adam

AdamB

@pmiller said:

For all those who are unable to unzip* the file (blocked), is there any chance of a new zip file?

*despite using properties to unblock. BTY this zip file is the first I have ever encountered that will not unzip.

Yes, mail "help at light-up.co.uk" with your reg details and I'll flip some bits.

[FWIW Its just a regular zipfile. No, really it is!]

Adam

juju

on knees, praying
Please have them sort out what they need to so it can get to market.
done praying

AdamB

@unknownuser said:

on knees, praying
Please have them sort out what they need to so it can get to market.
done praying

We've had a ton of feedback in this one week. Its been really useful - and LightUp needs to address those issues. The fact of the matter is that most people really don't care about the rendering detail - they just want something that improves the speed of their workflow and the range of their visualisation options. I'll have to put my hand up and admit I was surprised by how strong that sentiment is.

Where we're up to right now is focussing on nailing these crash bugs, simplifying the UI because many reported finding the Ambient Occlusion/Direct Lighting/Tourtool buttons confusing, improving performance generally and closing out useability issues like groups, group materials etc.

So, models that cause reproducible hangs/crashes/slowness are like gold for helping in these tasks. Hint, hint!

Adam

BTW The first pass at simplification of GUI got committed this morning. Basically you specify Lighting in Preferences and then hit Tour and it does what it needs to do. So now only 3 buttons: Preferences, Query and Tour.

Edson

@adamb said:

The fact of the matter is that most people really don't care about the rendering detail - they just want something that improves the speed of their workflow and the range of their visualisation options.

adam,

what do you mean by not caring about the rendering detail? what rendering detail? could you elaborate a little bit on that?

i am not sure this helps you to understand the above but people like me --very interested in rendering but knowing very little about it-- do not really know exactly what LightUp can do for us.

i must confess i do not understand fully what LU can do for me. can it help me with my exteriors scenes? yes? please show me how. what about interiors? let me see more examples. and so on. this is why i have been asking for more videos and tutorials.

i hope this is useful feedback for you.

ilay7k

Hello Edson, i think it's shadow helper, then you can use any render solution with minimal lighting options if will use LU maps. And it's "simple" RT-engine, any-way for end-work need Pshp skills...for example look at some work of hypershot from bunkspeed

Efrado

Thanks Adam for your guidance,but looks like a have to replace mi machine.
I downloaded your attach and this is the way it appears

studio21.skp