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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
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      @ecuadorian said:

      Cool reference photo. It would be even cooler to have a LED model like this one (wink, wink).
      http://www.otherthings.com/blog/images/led_throwies_small.jpg

      Nice reference photo.
      I had a bunch of LED's next to me when I was trying this out earlier. Kept hot-wiring them to a battery until they got hot.

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        Ecuadorian
        last edited by

        Closer observation of LEDs reveals that only a part of the plastic is actually lit, so here's an update.
        closeup4.jpg
        In reality, the lit part starts with a conical shape; I'll try that tomorrow.

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        • EarthMoverE Offline
          EarthMover
          last edited by

          Miguel...the new one looks better, IMO. I think the "cone of shame" added a lot of realism. Care to post the model?

          Here's an attempt with a green LED. Not really happy with it. I used a tiny Vray sphere lighting in each of the LED's. I tried an emitter plane, but it looks crappy. Used a soft water SSS material for the bulb casing. Took forever to render the 202 lights!


          l.e.d.jpg

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          • R Offline
            rev3rse
            last edited by

            OMG!! A Point-Light for any led, it's a rendering nightmare... 😮

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              @rev3rse said:

              OMG!! A Point-Light for any led, it's a rendering nightmare... 😮

              Not if it's just a handful of LED for close ups.

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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

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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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