Loft model

AdamB

Inspired by the beautiful image posted by Speaker the other day (http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=333&t=41281), I had a go recreating the model in SketchUp.

Lighting time for both is under 3 minutes, images straight out of LightUp.

dsarchs

At a guess that's not an R-60 roof.

Looks good, although the angle really shows the tiling of the brick texture.

Frederik

Looks great, Adam...
LightUp sure looks like it's capable of generating better photo realistic renders...
Haven't had a chance of trying the new version - yet...
So question is, once rendered are you able to maintain the photo real effect when orbiting the scene/model...?
My understanding of LightUp is/was that it bakes the lightning into textures...

solo

looking sweet!

Hmmm, thinking if I could use Lightup with Lumion for light maps.

artysmedia

@frederik said:

So question is, once rendered are you able to maintain the photo real effect when orbiting the scene/model...?
My understanding of LightUp is/was that it bakes the lightning into textures...

I'm interested about the answer of this question! Baked textures!? If it is true, i like it!

Interesting render, but i don't like the brick repetition also

AdamB

Thanks everyone.

LightUp bakes "view independent" lighting offline, and calculates "view dependent" effects in realtime.

That essentially means diffuse light effects are calculated once and cached, and specular effects are calculated on the GPU. This allows unlimited numbers of lights with shadows while still having 30 frames/second motion.

Here's a realtime capture of SketchUp running LightUp - but the youtube vid has dropped the frame rate from its normal 30 frames/sec

[flash=800,600:3mj7y6fe]http://www.youtube.com/v/czBsvJ_cG_k[/flash:3mj7y6fe]

Speaker

Here is the actual model in Lightup

And a short animation of it.
Youtube Video

Lightup really has improved a lot since the early releases

tibet

hi adam,
wow, that´s an incredible job!
lightup is such a powerful tool .
is there any way how to change character of any object to give it eg. a glow apperiance? ( like neon sign and so on )
i wonder if there any tool compared to it.
i´ve heard someone mentioned UNITY 3D, but didn´t tried by myself.
good luck!