Lighting Plugin for Sketchup

ilay7k · 12 Dec 2007, 13:38

Great thing!!!
Is this gpu-render's engine or something with baking feature of light-maps?!!
oh if it is gpu, i haven't such hardware...

Thanks

tinanne · 12 Dec 2007, 13:51

This is a great tool! To be able to work in real time and to see lighting and be able to make quick changes without having to re-render... awesome!

Have some of the same questions...
Will there be light components?
Will it work for animations?
can you adjust the amount of light emitted?
Will it work with sketchy styles?

I'll definitely be watching for more updates and of course the release.... and that will be very soon, right?

solo · 12 Dec 2007, 14:03

This looks fantastic, all the questions so far have been asked.

I await the flood of Star Wars 'light saber' vidoes....

otb designworks · 12 Dec 2007, 14:15

This is a great WIP!

Please, dear God, tell me it will work on Macs!

Thanks

notareal · 12 Dec 2007, 14:17

Nice demo. For me it looks like that textures are baked with light map.

linea · 12 Dec 2007, 14:22

This looks fantastic, will it work on Vista?

ilay7k · 12 Dec 2007, 14:52

@unknownuser said:

Is this useful? Any comments, suggestions etc welcome.

Yes! .. we have low-poly modeller, SketchyPhysics and this tool /ruby wil be main scripting lang./...so need to develop GSU Game Edition

AdamB · 12 Dec 2007, 16:53

Thanks for all the nice words!

I've still got work to do on the technology but its mostly there. Currently it is a pure Ruby implementation (so its fine on any platform), I already have a custom Tool for area emitter power, color, and angular fall-off (so IES light support should be possible) and materials can be marked to be ignored (ie skip geometry). Animation should "just work" and I'm going to speak with the Sketchup guys to figure out how to integrate better with the built-in lighting.

It does need more work on how I map from HDR internally to RGB for display, and I can wring some more performance out of it, but you can see its in the ballpark.

I am really pleased with the responses so far; this is a classic case of needing some lighting myself, developing the tech and then finding lots of others want the same!

I'll keep you posted!

Adam

ilay7k · 12 Dec 2007, 17:02

Cool!...nothing say
Thanks

Your light technics like light portals in vray, fry, final-render...render engines
/if you ruby knowledge is better of my, please look at sunflow-render(it has net render...to enrich for example - realtime rendering) and some useful features(also hdri supporting)

lorenzo · 12 Dec 2007, 23:20

Where can I download the plugin!!!
It's fantastic

spence · 12 Dec 2007, 23:27

I never thought I would see the day. This is wonderful and very cool. I remember many moons ago reading threads that talked about lighting in sketchup, many many moons ago.

Keep up the good work Adam.

CPhillips · 13 Dec 2007, 02:48

Looks great. Are you subdividing surfaces or generating lightmaps? Or something else?

Chris

boofredlay · 13 Dec 2007, 14:33

This is very cool. I look forward to the progress on it.

tomsdesk · 13 Dec 2007, 14:46

Man, please don't wait till it's perfect...I could use this today! Sign me up for beta testing too!!!

Pixero · 15 Dec 2007, 08:25

Wow!!!
It looks great. Cant wait til its released.
What a christmas present it would be...

juju · 18 Dec 2007, 12:08

OMW, please please please do not stop development on this. Remember to update here on a regular basis, it will be appreciated.

stuartb · 20 Dec 2007, 14:00

It is really rather interesting to be sure! Would love to be on the beta-test list too if there is one Adam . . pip pip!

marne · 20 Dec 2007, 15:00

I agree with the others! damn, that looks great will be a big thing, when released (it seems to be one already:) ).
One thing i noticed: in the left corner we were able to see the "render-progress", and compared with the "real" renderplugins it was really fast. so i wonder on what machine this "rendering" was done.

Thanks in forward!!!!

greetings marne

AdamB · 21 Dec 2007, 15:37

Another video showing the light-tweaking ability of this plug-in. I think its important to be able to play with lighting quickly and experiment before committing to a hirez render.

Again, really appreciate any feedback.

Gaieus · 21 Dec 2007, 15:43

Adam,

This is just something really cool. One of the most genious plugins I have ever seen.

When you export animation with these lights, does tha "classical flickering effect with the shadows" also appear or is this somehow free from that effect?