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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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