LightUp 1.5

EarthMover · 21 May 2009, 05:10

Just downloaded the demo. Anyone else had a chance to play with it yet? I keep getting bugsplats when I add a light to my scene. Anyone else?

After seeing Adam B's dancing flame in the "Candle Thread", I am dying to try a waterfall or fireplace in realtime with an animated texture.

Gaieus · 21 May 2009, 12:00

Not yet, not YET...

sepo · 21 May 2009, 15:24

I played with 1.5 and did not have any problems so far. The quality of the images have really gone up.

AdamB · 23 May 2009, 12:42

@earthmover said:

Just downloaded the demo. Anyone else had a chance to play with it yet? I keep getting bugsplats when I add a light to my scene. Anyone else?

Hi,

You must have "Use hardware acceleration" checked in Sketchup Preferences to use LightUp.
Are you getting any messages on the Ruby console when you press Tourtool?
Ensure you have updated graphics drivers for your computer.

You might try selecting the menu Tools->LightUp->Force Simple Rendering which limits LU to using very basic OpenGL functionality.

Adam

AdamB · 23 May 2009, 17:37

You can get info about your Graphics card by using the menu item Tools->LightUp->OpenGL info.

This will open the Ruby console and print lots of info which can help indicate whether firstly you are actually using your graphics card at all, and secondly if its high enough spec.

Generally, ensuring you have updated drivers is a GoodThing(tm) not just for LightUp but Sketchup generally.

Also there was a time way back with SU3 when the difference in performance between "Use hardware acceleration" and not was pretty minimal. Nowadays thats not the case, and you'll find a much slicker workflow (irrespective of LightUp) by ensuring you're using your graphics card. To put it in perspective, a modern graphics card is at least as much computing power as your main PC. Not using it is turning your back on half your resources.

Adam