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    • olisheaO Offline
      olishea
      last edited by

      i think majid's and earthmover's LEDS are most convincing. majid captured that falloff that you get with LEDS...they act like mini spotlights (well the one on my keyring does anyway). So I imagine loading an IES will work well.

      oli

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        Ecuadorian
        last edited by

        OK, this time I modeled a tiny metalic "cone of shame" (he he he) around an even tinier emitter, to better simulate the light source in a LED.
        LED Closeup SU.jpg

        I'm not sure if I like this image better than the previous one:
        closeup5.jpg

        Different exposure:
        overexposed.jpg

        EDIT: Added the model with the cone.


        LED Closeup cone.zip

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        • A Offline
          Aidus
          last edited by

          Here is mine:
          Test Led
          Transparent materials - real glass and that's the only correct material here 😄

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          • majidM Offline
            majid
            last edited by

            this is my try.sketchup + KT and also the result is a photoshop combination.
            Also you may try it(unzip and load the KT file, attached)


            spot light added and lit(MLT, BPT)


            no light but sky (MLT, BPT)


            combination and adjusted , using photoshop


            unzip and then open in KT, 😉 cheers

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            • Al HartA Offline
              Al Hart
              last edited by

              First try

              led1.jpg

              (I know I am a little slower at getting this done than some of you. Actually we found a bug where we were processing curved light emitters too slowly, so this helped fix up the software as well)

              Al Hart

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              • EscapeArtistE Offline
                EscapeArtist
                last edited by

                Dang. Majid, you beat me to it. I should've checked this thread before building my LED. Oh well, here it is anyway. Feel free to do what you will with it. It's a bit overboard detail-wise, I even threw in a few air inclusions.

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                I based it on this picture:

                http://scorpiontheater.com/images/LED_Closeup.jpg


                LED.jpg


                LED.jpg

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                • F Offline
                  fymoro
                  last edited by

                  A quick try (10 minutes) with Vray for SU first version... 😄


                  led fymoro.jpg

                  http://www.thearender.com/cms/index.php/news/featured-artists/137-frederic-yves-moro.html

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                  • R Offline
                    Rico91
                    last edited by

                    Hi all,
                    my first post on this forum today!
                    This is my render of the L.E.D. Lighting:

                    http://lh4.ggpht.com/_rMc47FEl0fA/SwhweInvFLI/AAAAAAAABz4/TOEACiq_BG4/Led_SUcation_2.jpg

                    [img:y90a5vdg]http://lh5.ggpht.com/_rMc47FEl0fA/Sro-DozMGPI/AAAAAAAABwU/zZsLbdpwWAs/forum_onderschrift_r3d_30pxh.jpg[/img:y90a5vdg] [url:y90a5vdg]http://www.R3Design.nl[/url:y90a5vdg]

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                    • majidM Offline
                      majid
                      last edited by

                      Ok mate, I tried to keep and respect your level of details, hope you like it 😉 (distort correction and a bit of bluring , by PS )


                      1117Web.jpg

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                      • EscapeArtistE Offline
                        EscapeArtist
                        last edited by

                        @majid said:

                        Ok mate, I tried to keep and respect your level of details, hope you like it 😉 (distort correction and a bit of bluring , by PS )

                        Oh, that is really cool. Nice job. What renderer?

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                        • EscapeArtistE Offline
                          EscapeArtist
                          last edited by

                          Nice job. I used KT as well, gotta work on my materials. Only thing about KT is that it doesn't do volumetric light beams, so I got the same result as you did in your red LEDs; a bright surface light, but nothing "inside" the LED.

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                          • majidM Offline
                            majid
                            last edited by

                            @escapeartist said:

                            ...
                            Oh, that is really cool. Nice job. What renderer?

                            OK thanx mate , it is KT as usual, nice that u like it

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                            • majidM Offline
                              majid
                              last edited by

                              it does volometric lighting also, but I didn't used 😉


                              vol.gif

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                                Nick4u1
                                last edited by

                                Some nice attempts of rendering LED strip but you wanna try chip leds as opposed to those 5mm. This would be a lot easier..

                                Link Preview Image

                                😉

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