Shadow Catcher materials

AdamB · 12 Oct 2010, 19:13

[flash=640,480:3is2f1hc]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=15776010[/flash:3is2f1hc]

jeff hammond · 12 Oct 2010, 19:28

sepo · 12 Oct 2010, 20:08

Super addition. LightUp has really matured into very powerfull software.

tbd · 12 Oct 2010, 20:09

nice. love the realtime effects.

thomthom · 12 Oct 2010, 21:05

Neato!
I noticed there was animation options there - is the animation support just the native SU scene change? Or is there other, better animation support? I've never made animations in SU due to the jerky camera movements - but it'd be great to have a tool like LighUp along with some proper animation paths for visualizations tours.

EarthMover · 12 Oct 2010, 21:42

Mouth watering stuff. Adam, you are definitely running a consistent race with all the bigger, multi man development teams. I hope you see major success with lightUp and while I haven't made the leap to buy it yet, it is on my upcoming wishlist!

AdamB · 13 Oct 2010, 09:50

Thanks! Glad you like it.

People still struggle to get their heads around LightUp as it is a bit different from other viz software, but we're getting there!

@thomthom said:

:thumb:
Neato!
I noticed there was animation options there - is the animation support just the native SU scene change? Or is there other, better animation support? I've never made animations in SU due to the jerky camera movements - but it'd be great to have a tool like LightUp along with some proper animation paths for visualizations tours.

No its just triggers the Scene animations immediately to start recording so you can rerun multiple movie renderings with different lighting rigs and then easily blend them together.

There isn't anything intrinsically wrong with Scenes, its just there are no tools for authoring/editing a set of Scenes. I know Chris Fullmer has done some stuff, and I released my "SceneTweaker" which allows you to easily re-orient scenes after you've created them, but nobody has produced a solid Animation Rigging Tool. I suspect because its a lot of work with little reward in it because its not seen as sexy.

thomthom · 13 Oct 2010, 10:13

@adamb said:

cally wrong with Scenes, its just there are no tools for authoring/editing a set of Scenes. I know Chris Fullmer has done some stuff, and I released my "SceneTweaker" which allows you to easily re-orient scenes after you've created them, but nobody has produced a solid Animation Rigging Tool. I suspect because its a lot of work with little reward in it because its not seen as sexy.

A lot of work yes. It's one of them things that are fit for a commercial plugin.

Frederik · 13 Oct 2010, 19:02

Looks really nice...
Well done on the achievement, Adam...

Edson · 14 Oct 2010, 15:05

adam,

the latest developments are quite impressive. Lu is becoming a very complete rendering plugin. congrats on your work.

I have not had time to play seriously with LU but I am very anxious to do it. I'll get to it soon enough.