Lighting Plugin for Sketchup

AdamB

Hi,

Thought you might be interested in this video of some lighting technology I've been developing for Sketchup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R38Clvj1pmc

Is this useful? Any comments, suggestions etc welcome.

Adam

a4chitect

fantastic - very 'sketchy' pretty fast and great looking!!! are you baking computed lighting to textures? impressive!

do you plan to release the plugin?

Q1: have you thought about adding IES lights support?
Q2: are the default shadows of sketchup off? i suppose they are

a4chitect

after seeing the video for another 10 times, i noticed the light is actually raytraced for shadows of obstacles - GREAT!!! excellent work!

jenujacob

whoa!! thats pretty grooovy.. which plugin was it??
so u update it once and then u can move around th3 whole area in real time?? can we do animations with it too????

tbd

excellent ! can you provide more info about it ?
LE: a4chitect beat me with the questions

sepo

Quite interesting stuff. Please do tell us more.

ilay7k

Great thing!!!
Is this gpu-render's engine or something with baking feature of light-maps?!!
oh if it is gpu, i haven't such hardware...

Thanks

tinanne

This is a great tool! To be able to work in real time and to see lighting and be able to make quick changes without having to re-render... awesome!

Have some of the same questions...
Will there be light components?
Will it work for animations?
can you adjust the amount of light emitted?
Will it work with sketchy styles?

I'll definitely be watching for more updates and of course the release.... and that will be very soon, right?

solo

This looks fantastic, all the questions so far have been asked.

I await the flood of Star Wars 'light saber' vidoes....

otb designworks

This is a great WIP!

Please, dear God, tell me it will work on Macs!

Thanks

notareal

Nice demo. For me it looks like that textures are baked with light map.

linea

This looks fantastic, will it work on Vista?

ilay7k

@unknownuser said:

Is this useful? Any comments, suggestions etc welcome.

Yes! .. we have low-poly modeller, SketchyPhysics and this tool /ruby wil be main scripting lang./...so need to develop GSU Game Edition

AdamB

Thanks for all the nice words!

I've still got work to do on the technology but its mostly there. Currently it is a pure Ruby implementation (so its fine on any platform), I already have a custom Tool for area emitter power, color, and angular fall-off (so IES light support should be possible) and materials can be marked to be ignored (ie skip geometry). Animation should "just work" and I'm going to speak with the Sketchup guys to figure out how to integrate better with the built-in lighting.

It does need more work on how I map from HDR internally to RGB for display, and I can wring some more performance out of it, but you can see its in the ballpark.

I am really pleased with the responses so far; this is a classic case of needing some lighting myself, developing the tech and then finding lots of others want the same!

I'll keep you posted!

Adam

ilay7k

Cool!...nothing say
Thanks

Your light technics like light portals in vray, fry, final-render...render engines
/if you ruby knowledge is better of my, please look at sunflow-render(it has net render...to enrich for example - realtime rendering) and some useful features(also hdri supporting)

lorenzo

Where can I download the plugin!!!
It's fantastic

spence

I never thought I would see the day. This is wonderful and very cool. I remember many moons ago reading threads that talked about lighting in sketchup, many many moons ago.

Keep up the good work Adam.

CPhillips

Looks great. Are you subdividing surfaces or generating lightmaps? Or something else?

Chris

boofredlay

This is very cool. I look forward to the progress on it.

tomsdesk

Man, please don't wait till it's perfect...I could use this today! Sign me up for beta testing too!!!