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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      Gotcha! It'd still be a good plugin though.
      But what about the transparency?

      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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        jasonh1234
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        Wow. Just Wow! I honestly thought that this would be something in SU7 but I'm ecstatic to see what you've done. I stumbled upon this thread totally by accident/coincidence and my day has just been made. Dare I say week? Month? Year?

        Subscribing to the thread. Looking forward to updates. Any kind of (even rough guesstimate) ETA on release?

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          SpaceMan
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          just make a bright yellow/white cone/cylinder of light. It is used in some video games.


          lighting.skp

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            Masta Squidge
            last edited by

            @spaceman said:

            just make a bright yellow/white cone/cylinder of light. It is used in some video games.
            This plugin is for ACTUAL lighting lol. You know, things that light up.
            Not a bad idea, but that's not what he is trying to achieve.

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              markitekt
              last edited by

              I've been watching this post for some time now and hoping for this gem of a script to be released. Can we see a beta? I promise not to complain if there are any bugs.
              Please oh please, please please?
              Mark

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                bellwells
                last edited by

                A lot of us are anxiously awaiting this gem. Patience grasshopper. This is actually the only thread to which I'm subscribed.

                Ron

                Ron

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                  stuartb
                  last edited by

                  I also check this thread daily! Adam B for president! (maybe)

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                    tomsdesk
                    last edited by

                    @stuartb said:

                    ...for president! (maybe)

                    Why "maybe"? At least we know for sure he's been doing something productive and morever: toward our common good.

                    http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
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                      Gaieus
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                      That was probably for the rhyme only...

                      Gai...

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                      • AdamBA Offline
                        AdamB
                        last edited by

                        First off apologies for being so quiet. There's been a huge amount of development on this and its coming along really nicely.

                        So where are we up to? Well, originally I wanted something cross platform and simple to implement. And for as long as I used simple geometry and didn't expected too much all was good... However. (There is always a 'however'), it became clear to me from my own experiments and speaking with those who have a passing understanding of how SU works, that for realworld models like you guys actually produce my plans would have to change. So the past months I've been redoing/refactoring functionality in C++, simultaneously developing on Mac OSX and Win32 (they are in lockstep development-wise) . Unsurprisingly the new version is around 20-30x faster than the old, supports blending SU textures with lighting, transparency (and I plan on having a few other pretty cool features).. So a colossal amount of work later, something that was some neat algorithms in a largish script has become a fullblown engine.

                        I do plan on wrapping up development in March so its not going to be too long after that I can have it for sale. I wasn't expecting to have to implement so much technology, so my timing is off from what I initially expected (late software? never!) but fingers crossed I can nail some bugs which have been stopping me posting pics/video RSN.

                        As always, thanks for all you enthusiasm!

                        Adam

                        Developer of LightUp Click for website

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                        • AdamBA Offline
                          AdamB
                          last edited by

                          @adamb said:

                          Yes, having done the 40% of the work to show a prototype I'm very hard at work doing the other 90% to make it a product. 😄

                          As promised, here's a grab of the ambient occlusion lighting (BTW 3.6 seconds to generate):

                          SketchUpScreenSnapz003.png

                          Adam

                          OK, "your mileage may vary". Just ran this test room again, it took 0.3 seconds to generate, so just 10x for this model.. 😉

                          Developer of LightUp Click for website

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                            kwistenbiebel
                            last edited by

                            Great to hear that development is going well Adam 😄
                            That speed improvement is really cool.
                            Any chance you will develop it in a later stage to support different render engines besides ambient occlusion?

                            I wouldn't mind for instance to have Podium or another engine working behind the screens of this plugin....Even if the calculation for a scene would take some hours, the benefit of doing animation with the 'baked' results would be awesome !

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                              lewiswadsworth
                              last edited by

                              This would be the most interesting addition to SketchUp, as far as I am concerned, in three years. Looking forward to final product, Adam.

                              col sporcar si trova

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                                tbd
                                last edited by

                                I am open for creating a bridge between Podium and Adam's plugin, maybe an open format that allows exchanging of info

                                SketchUp Ruby Consultant | Podium 1.x developer
                                http://plugins.ro

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                                  solo
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                                  😍

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                                    kwistenbiebel
                                    last edited by

                                    TBD....that would be great right? Combined with the power of upcoming Podium 2.0...
                                    😍 😍

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                                    • AdamBA Offline
                                      AdamB
                                      last edited by

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      I am open for creating a bridge between Podium and Adam's plugin, maybe an open format that allows exchanging of info

                                      Right now my head is buried in finishing this thing. When the dust settles, I get some sleep, then sometime we should have a chat. But as I've said before, these are totally different architectures attempting to solve essentially different problems. My concern is trying to whack a square peg into a round hole in the expectation something wonderful will come out of it, is a road to disappointment for developers and users.

                                      Right now my focus is fast, interactive walkthrough of models with lighting to give a flavor of the space.

                                      The lighting I use is non-physically based, it is biased, it is an approximation. But its really effective of giving a sense of a place and its very very fast.

                                      So. Sure we should talk. But lets not get ahead of ourselves here. Perhaps these is a useful crossover but I'm having trouble understanding what it is. Thats all.

                                      And when is 2.0 out? 😄

                                      All the best,
                                      Adam

                                      Developer of LightUp Click for website

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                                      • tbdT Offline
                                        tbd
                                        last edited by

                                        one way:

                                        • user adds lights in AL (Adam's Lighting plugin) and see in realtime a preview of the model
                                        • Podium detects the lights from AL and renders using those lights

                                        another way:

                                        • Podium renders and creates a textured lightmap
                                        • AL loads the file and allows further modifications

                                        SketchUp Ruby Consultant | Podium 1.x developer
                                        http://plugins.ro

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                                          joshkho
                                          last edited by

                                          Hey AdamB,
                                          Google posted an ad looking to hire someone right now to develop sketchup and layout.
                                          Ad is here: http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=101&dockey=xml/7/4/742c0bc0e4e8fa719ece6825dbef9444@endecaindex&c=1&source=2021&spon=shpaid
                                          Not sure if you're interested, but thought you'd like to take a look since you're pretty much doing it now, anyway.

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                                            ilay7k
                                            last edited by

                                            Hello Adam!
                                            I'm looking at some ipr-technics of bunkspeed's hypershot, it will be nice to see such in skipy 😄


                                            i remember that you wrote about Renderman...have you or anybody look at Rubyman(sourceforge)?

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