LightUp WIP

Richard · 21 May 2009, 01:14

Man I'm impressed!

Question - in the last images is the HDRI the only lighting? Pretty good if it is!

Well done mate!

sepo · 21 May 2009, 07:25

Thanks Richard. It is AO and HDR only lighting . I am very impressed with LightUp as well.Simple to setup and you can create animations, move in rendered environment in real time regardless how big is the SU file and also extract number of images. Here is just another image trying bumps and specular(Onyx tree). LightUp handles transparent .png well and no need for alpha to have correct shadows.

olishea · 21 May 2009, 16:09

looks really nice....hdr lighting looks convincing [edit]got my trial downloaded....its freaky moving round a rendered model, kinda like playing xbox lol

hitman47127 · 31 May 2009, 14:47

Thinksssssss

sepo · 13 Jun 2009, 14:00

More play with LightUp... Have not really moved the project so need to do a lot of work this week... Still need to do water...plants etc.

olishea · 13 Jun 2009, 17:01

im guessing its hdr lighting again? i saw another image on lightup website that u made using hdr to the same scheme, beautiful. this is what podium is missing IMO.

very nice work btw, cant wait to see it with all the water and plants etc. have u tried using the animated textures to water?

do u mind sharing grass texture?

sepo · 13 Jun 2009, 18:21

Thanks Oli. Yes it is HDRI lighting.I will play with water later on, once everything is in place. At moment the file is getting big and I am not sure if I am going to postprocess plants or have them rendered. I can share the grass no probs...let me know how.

sepo · 13 Jun 2009, 23:36

Here is Podium version.

pilou · 13 Jun 2009, 23:51

It's not so bad too

troyhome · 14 Jun 2009, 01:02

say, care to share the skp of those lilly pads?
I'm actually surprised at how nice LU looks... i still think i'll stick to podium or vray, but not bad.

honoluludesktop · 14 Jun 2009, 01:32

Pile footings for a residence? Very rare in my part of the world. Must have added substantial cost to the project.

Opps, came here from the first post, didn't see the water:-)

sepo · 15 Jun 2009, 09:07

Thanks for the comments.
Troyhome I can't really share the water lilly model as that is part of the Solo pack which BTW is worth every penny purchasing.
LightUp is quite easy to use and as I said elswhere the strength comes in real time performance and endless number of stills. I supose one needs more soft in arsenal for different tasks and yes Podium, LightUp and Vray are all in my arsenal.

artysmedia · 15 Jun 2009, 09:44

Yes, they all are great renders!
GOOD JOB!

sepo · 15 Jun 2009, 13:33

Thanks Roberto...Still need to add bumps on the water and other little tweaks.Here is different tonemapping of the same Podium image, less contrast and less light.

sepo · 19 Jun 2009, 15:46

More LightUp. I am trying to develop postprocess which seats between NPR and PR, kind of both.

sepo · 19 Jun 2009, 15:48

and slightly different

Daniel · 19 Jun 2009, 20:27

They look fantastic, Sepo.

sepo · 19 Jun 2009, 21:19

Thank you Daniel . I was starting to think they do not look any good as nobody was commenting on them.

Daniel · 20 Jun 2009, 00:00

So, how do you like LightUp? How does it compare to Podium? I keep meaning to try it, but my to-do list is longer than the hours in a day.

sepo · 20 Jun 2009, 09:03

I like LIghtUp. One can make stills and animation. Adam is doing excellent job in moving software forward. It is still early in development but it has a lot of potential.
You can't really compare LightUp with any other render engines as it is unique. It employs game technology. If you Google Adam you will see where his background comes from.