Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Animation, LightUp, Presentation, Textures/Materials
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
There is an interesting topic on LightUp here, ‘Loft Model’! The topic revolves around LightUp’s texture baking abilities. Adam Billyard, the developer, advises and demonstrates, ‘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 [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, LightUp, Plug-ins, Solar Analysis
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Using LightUp for SketchUp you can perform an insolation analysis to assess the distribution and availability of solar radiation over an entire building or even a city block. It can provide realtime navigation of Insolation results with a realtime spot meter showing kwh/m^2/day as well as static and tracked daily results for photovoltaic designs. View [...]
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All News, Google SketchUp Tutorials, IDX Renditioner, Indigo, LightUp, Tutorials
Monday, September 13th, 2010
This page from the eHow website contains a small tutorial by Julius Vandersteen on how to render in Google SketchUp using any of the following 3 rendering applications: Indigo, IDX Renditioner and LightUp.
