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    • soloS Offline
      solo
      last edited by

      Hey Jay, welcome to SCF.

      Tell you what lets do this...

      You got a small project you need completed?

      Post what you have so far, send me the model and we can do it together, I will try help you learn while you do it, this way others can also jump in and help and also use as a tutorial.

      No charge.

      http://www.solos-art.com

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      • JAWSnAZJ Offline
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        Thank You Solo! How do I up load a model to you?

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        • JAWSnAZJ Offline
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          last edited by

          Thank You Solo.

          How can I get a copy of my model to you.

          Can I put it up on Google Drive and share it to you?

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          • soloS Offline
            solo
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            Yeah, sure Google drive, Dropbox, or even post in pm.

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            • JAWSnAZJ Offline
              JAWSnAZ
              last edited by

              OK. Sent you a link to my model in a PM.

              Thanks.

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              • soloS Offline
                solo
                last edited by

                @jawsnaz said:

                OK. Sent you a link to my model in a PM.

                Thanks.

                Saw that, I clicked on link and it needs me to get permissions to download.

                Can you not direct link or Dropbox?

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                • JAWSnAZJ Offline
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                  last edited by

                  @solo said:

                  @jawsnaz said:

                  OK. Sent you a link to my model in a PM.

                  Thanks.

                  Saw that, I clicked on link and it needs me to get permissions to download.

                  Can you not direct link or Dropbox?

                  I got your request for permissions. I added the email that you sent. Hope it works. If not I will try drop box.

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                  • soloS Offline
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                    last edited by

                    Got them, so how can I help?

                    http://www.solos-art.com

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                    • soloS Offline
                      solo
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                      Jay

                      Lets do the yard first.

                      Here is an image for those following of how the model looks.

                      Back Yard 05.jpg

                      For this exercise we are not going into modeling or texturing discussions. however I did remove most vegetation as I'd rather use the LumenRT supplied trees as they are way better and optimized.

                      In your email you wanted to know how to add lights, I saw you had string lights and a ton of them on the arbors, I deleted a bunch of them as there were just too many and inserted a point light inside see image. These are found on the LumenRT toolbar.

                      light setup.jpg

                      I also added 3 point lights in pool

                      Then I did a draft export to Lumion, set to night and done, some screen shots.

                      Back Yard 05.jpg

                      Back Yard 05_002.jpg

                      And here is the Live cube to play with

                      https://www.dropbox.com/s/5yot7t7pdz7lqur/Back%20Yard%2005.exe

                      Dropbox link will be removed in 48 hours.


                      Back Yard 05.jpg

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                      • soloS Offline
                        solo
                        last edited by

                        Using SU scale tool.


                        scale tool.jpg

                        http://www.solos-art.com

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                        • JAWSnAZJ Offline
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                          last edited by

                          OK. So added a point light as you said but my point light is much much larger than the one you show. How do I change the size so I can see where I am placing it?

                          https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dI3U70aCPVk/UrSoDKimI0I/AAAAAAAAA5o/KFGlQL2pk9g/s1280/Back%2520Yard%252005%2520-%2520Point%2520Light.jpg

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                          • JAWSnAZJ Offline
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                            @solo said:

                            Using SU scale tool.

                            lol... that is the missing link in my head... treat the LumenRT components as any other component. Scale, Copy, etc...

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                            • soloS Offline
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                              When you export to live cube you press TAB and it will open up a menu on the left side where you can go into the lights menu and adjust the lights one by one, if you have a ton of lights it becomes a pain in the arse, there is no way to group adjust them.

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                                last edited by

                                Also notice how I reduced the amount of lights, less is best here, trust me.


                                less lights.jpg

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                                • JAWSnAZJ Offline
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                                  OK. Cool.
                                  Next question is about the glass bulb. Is there a way to make the glass bulb itself glow like it is frosted or translucent vs transparent?

                                  https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-cWz1-HW8Ve8/UrS2P_sQ31I/AAAAAAAAA6E/XMprJ5_mGSI/s1280/Back%2520Yard%252005_001.jpg

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                                  • soloS Offline
                                    solo
                                    last edited by

                                    You can make the bulb a luminous material and not use the point lights, but then you do not have intensity control in live cube


                                    luminous.jpg

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                                    • JAWSnAZJ Offline
                                      JAWSnAZ
                                      last edited by

                                      OK. So here is a test of Luminous Materials vs Point Light in LumenRT.

                                      Luminous Materials - Luminous 1000

                                      https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-55_nui7KKKc/UrXxdMh3PuI/AAAAAAAAA6o/XqycM3ZPbMo/s1440/lighting%2520test%2520-%2520Luminous%2520Materials.jpg

                                      https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-L0I9UvA89IA/UrXylFTe5lI/AAAAAAAAA7M/HRexmidAOIw/s1280/Luminous%2520Materials.jpg

                                      Point Light - Incandescent - 2500 lumens

                                      https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5Ypb6sM2fiY/UrXxdEKTssI/AAAAAAAAA6s/r0EWyr8hrmg/s1440/lighting%2520test%2520-%2520Point%2520Light.jpg

                                      https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w673BqMJ6ko/UrXylED58SI/AAAAAAAAA7I/6nOYzcuIQPo/s1280/Point%2520Light.jpg

                                      Point Light - Incandescent - 10,000 lumens

                                      https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2KACDICtlkU/UrX2Rj_I2iI/AAAAAAAAA7o/7UiWqKKobRA/s1280/Point%2520Light%2520-%2520Incandescent%2520-%252010%252C000%2520Lumens.jpg

                                      I have tried to place the point light inside of and also overlap the luminous material to get the luminous material to cast a shadow. No luck either way.

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                                      • D Offline
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                                        What if you put the point light inside the luminous material, so you get shadows and the frosted light bulb effect?

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                                        • olisheaO Offline
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                                          This is a great thread and very generous of Solo to help out. Amazing forum work.

                                          oli

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                                          • JAWSnAZJ Offline
                                            JAWSnAZ
                                            last edited by

                                            @d12dozr said:

                                            What if you put the point light inside the luminous material, so you get shadows and the frosted light bulb effect?

                                            Thanks d12dozr

                                            I have also tried that. When I scale the point light down small enough and insert it into the luminous material the luminous material blocks the point light from escaping and does not create shadows.

                                            It seems like the point light treats the luminous material as a solid object.

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