Patterned lighting through lampshade

[jackwatson]

Hi there,

Has anyone ever tried rendering something like the image below - and if so what kind of material setup would you be using? I can't get my head around how to do it... put an omni light inside a spherical ball and add a diffuse map and transparency map?

Thanks for any pointers )

EDIT................. think i just answered my own question, sorry I'm half asleep today!

[valerostudio]

You would need the create the map to be applied to the sphere and then possibly UVW map it outside of SketchUp, maybe using UVtools and Blender? I dont know. All I know is that mapping a sphere in SU alone is dicey.