Lighting Plugin for Sketchup

[tbd]

I am open for creating a bridge between Podium and Adam's plugin, maybe an open format that allows exchanging of info

[solo]

[kwistenbiebel]

TBD....that would be great right? Combined with the power of upcoming Podium 2.0...

[AdamB]

@unknownuser said:

I am open for creating a bridge between Podium and Adam's plugin, maybe an open format that allows exchanging of info

Right now my head is buried in finishing this thing. When the dust settles, I get some sleep, then sometime we should have a chat. But as I've said before, these are totally different architectures attempting to solve essentially different problems. My concern is trying to whack a square peg into a round hole in the expectation something wonderful will come out of it, is a road to disappointment for developers and users.

Right now my focus is fast, interactive walkthrough of models with lighting to give a flavor of the space.

The lighting I use is non-physically based, it is biased, it is an approximation. But its really effective of giving a sense of a place and its very very fast.

So. Sure we should talk. But lets not get ahead of ourselves here. Perhaps these is a useful crossover but I'm having trouble understanding what it is. Thats all.

And when is 2.0 out?

All the best,
Adam

[tbd]

one way:

• user adds lights in AL (Adam's Lighting plugin) and see in realtime a preview of the model
• Podium detects the lights from AL and renders using those lights

another way:

• Podium renders and creates a textured lightmap
• AL loads the file and allows further modifications

[joshkho]

Hey AdamB,
Google posted an ad looking to hire someone right now to develop sketchup and layout.
Ad is here: http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=101&dockey=xml/7/4/742c0bc0e4e8fa719ece6825dbef9444@endecaindex&c=1&source=2021&spon=shpaid
Not sure if you're interested, but thought you'd like to take a look since you're pretty much doing it now, anyway.

[ilay7k]

Hello Adam!
I'm looking at some ipr-technics of bunkspeed's hypershot, it will be nice to see such in skipy

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i remember that you wrote about Renderman...have you or anybody look at Rubyman(sourceforge)?

[AdamB]

Here's a link of the latest video.

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[remus]

That looks wicked! the background picture thing is also awesome! just a big bucket of cool really.

[JuanV.Soler]

We are watching ¡¡¡

Congrats.

[tomsdesk]

..."that's about it for this episode" struck me as akin to an irreverant "that's about it for this day of creation"... :`)

REALLY COOL, ADAM...CAN'T WAIT!

[markitekt]

Adam,
This is truly freakin' amazing. Real time lighting and rendering with sky box features to boot. No other program does this that I know of. Please keep it affordable for us poor folks.
Sign me up.
Mark

[remus]

just a quick question adam, will you be able to see the sky box background in a podium render?

[Mike Lucey]

@adamb said:

I do plan on wrapping up development in March so its not going to be too long after that I can have it for sale.
Adam

Guys,

This month is March so we could be looking at a launch in a few weeks time! I'd be inclined to not ask any more questions and just let him burn the night oil

Mike

[linea]

That video is great, very exciting.

[kwistenbiebel]

That video is a very nice 'proof of concept'.
Great coding Adam !
The background 360° is definitely cool as well.
Is it a 'equirectangular'(lat/long) image or a 'sky probe' image?

The ambient occlusion render method seems really fast and on a textured model the effect is not bad at all.
(still hoping though to have other render engines behind it in a later phase )

Keep up the great stuff!

Regards,
Kwistenbiebel

[zandhorn]

Aww.

Haven't been to the forum for some time... Now found this..
Now this is sick. I WANT IT!!!! or rather I FRIGGIN' NEED IT!!!!
I'll save up at my stomach's cost, the poor student as I am.
But I'll have to have this..

Respect,
zan

[pilou]

All that will be apply inside Podium?

[Daniel]

Hmmmm...has anyone heard any updates about this?

[juju]

flips wallet open let's see... yup, got cash, will buy...