Lightup for Sketchup

Lightup for Sketchup - gives the ability to have realtime walkthrough and flythough of your fully lit model, all running inside the SketchUp window. Simply place light sources in your Sketchup model switch to Touring mode and you can explore how your model looks from any angle. Change the time of year / time of day to perform shadow analysis using the advanced Rayleigh sunlight model.

While Touring your model, you can create instant High Resolution Stills from the current viewpoint so you can iterate quicky through a whole range of ideas. Resolution of Stills is only limited by available memory - presets for common 300dpi page sizes are available as well as standard 1920x1080, 3840x2160 sizes. All of these can optionally produce the accompanying floating point depth maps to allow further post processing.

Adding light sources to your model is quick and simple and requires just placing a SketchUp Component at the position you want a light source and editing its lighting properties. Entering a Lumen value for your light source gets you started in seconds. Adding an IES luminaire definition file (available online from most manufacturers), allows you to evaluate lighting using real fittings. IES Type A, B and C light types are supported in LightUp making it ideal for both interior and exterior lighting design. Tools for orienting/targetting entire groups of lights make light rigging super quick as does the ability of LightUp to filter all light sources through any gobo or indeed any non-opaque materials the light passes through.

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What New in Lumion 2.0

What New in Lumion 2.0 - The new lighting features allow users to create an amazing atmosphere for indoor visualizations. To achieve believable indoor lighting, the entire material and shading system is updated for enhanced realism.

Several new animation effects will make it much easier to animate objects. In Lumion 2 you can now create curved paths instead of being restricted to strictly linear paths as in the first version of Lumion. This is great for animating vehicles, people and even parts of your design.

To complement the indoor lighting there will be a content pack available for Lumion 2.0. The new pack contains more than 160 furniture models and around 90 other objects such as waving flags and new vehicles.The existing character pack will be extended with several high quality 3D people.

The new sky system now includes 3 cloud layers, different cloud shapes and a spectacular spectrum of colors. At night the sky transforms into a magical spectacle of stars, complete with a realistic moon and special night sky colorization and cloud lighting.

This movie explains some of the new features in the new version.
- Indoor lighting with shadows and IES profiles
- Amazing skies for any time of day
- Enhanced materials for high quality display of fabrics and reflective materials
- Weather effects for quickly displaying a building in different weather conditions
- Extended the model library with things like flags, furniture, motorcycles and more
- Improved animation options
- Support for Autodesk DWG files and Autodesk Revit

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Artlantis For SketchUp - Tutorial and Free Download

Artlantis For SketchUp - enables you to improve and bring realism to your SketchUp Pro models with 3D objects and textures Texture your modelswith high-resolution shaders to obtain a very realistic effect, then set your scene with as many light sources as you'd like.

Artlantis For SketchUp helping you to complete even the most ambitious projects, and giving your presentations the look you want.

export process SketchUp to Artlantis will result in an Artlantis .atl file

Now, let's see in detail what Artlantis can take over from your SketchUp Pro model:

Step 1 : Modeling in SketchUp Pro
First, start to model your project with SketchUp Pro. For example, her we will model a lounge; we modeled the structure and only a few details, knowing that Artlantis will be used to set the entire scene.

Warning: Create your model carefully; avoid reversed faces! Between positive and negative sides of surfaces Artlantis will always interpret the positive one only. Any differentiation or mapped texture will disappear if the face is reversed.

Render[in] For SketchUp

Render[in] For SketchUp is a fully-integrated, real-time radiosity rendering engine developed for SketchUp Free and Pro. Render[in] is fast, easy to use, and works with all the same SketchUp settings, like geometry, camera, sun, colors, textures, etc.

With Render[in] for sketchup, quickly create a high definition rendering with no size limitation, use existing SketchUp parameters and add new ones, create a photo-realistic project environment (water, sand, grass) and a 3D sky with clouds, create artificial light sources, see the final result in a real-time radiosity preview window.


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Render[in] For SketchUp is fully integrated

Twilight Render for SketchUp

Twilight Render for SketchUp offers physically accurate materials, photometric (IES) lights, image based (HDR) lighting, a long list of easy-to-choose optimized preset render settings, animation with SketchyPhysics and ProperAnimation, and more!

Demo Free download Twilight Render for SketchUp (windows)

Twilight Render for SketchUp - SketchUp animation building progress



Twilight Render for SketchUp basic tutorial

Twilight Render for SketchUp intermediate tutorial

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