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    jhearcht
    last edited by 22 Sept 2010, 02:38

    SketchUp 6.4.265 on Windows XP

    I have an LED TV screen like a Jumbo-Tron on the face of a building. For the view I want, that side of the building is in shadow. I turned-off Receive Shadows, but no change. I added a white translucent face over the screen, with no shadows, but no change.

    Is there a way to simulate internal illumination in SketchUp without exporting to another rendering application?

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      shura
      last edited by 22 Sept 2010, 20:55

      Hi, thats a difficult one if you need the shadows or want to export an animation.
      If not, I'd suggest to "light" your screen in an image editing program.
      In SU you could also darken all other materials so that the screen stands out more, but this does not work with shadows switched on...

      cheers

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        EarthMover
        last edited by 22 Sept 2010, 21:10

        You could use a built in renderer. Try some of the free Beta render engines, like Render(in) or Shader Light. There is also Twilight, Podium & LightUp you could try, none of which require exporting. Native Sketchup doesn't support illumination from anything but the sun.

        3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
        Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
        Content Creator at Skapeup

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          d12dozr
          last edited by 22 Sept 2010, 22:07

          This blog post by Aidan might help you.

          3D Printing with SketchUp Book
          http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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            shura
            last edited by 22 Sept 2010, 22:55

            Yup, this streetlight tutorial is very smart, I especially like the trick to tint the surface that recieves diffuse light...

            But what is schown there can not work for jhearcht's situation, just tested it. The recieve shadows option controls the reception of other geometries shadows, but the entities own shadow remains.

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              jeff hammond
              last edited by 23 Sept 2010, 16:29

              like this?

              fake.jpg

              that's straight sketchup output btw-- probably wouldn't be practical to use this method too often.. anyone want to take a guess at what's going on in the drawing?

              dotdotdot

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                richcat
                last edited by 23 Sept 2010, 18:01

                Is it the old select no shadows cast from "ceiling" room and possible walls I used to use on internal views, with a view in being the "back illuminated wall". I added the "glow" to outer wall as texture inspired by Aidan blog post - intriguing 😎


                no shadows.jpg

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                  jeff hammond
                  last edited by 23 Sept 2010, 18:08

                  whoa, your technique looks cool..

                  in mine, i don't even have shadows turned on.. for the 'ground shadow', i turned on shadows then drew a plane using it's outline... turned shadows off then hid the plane's lines.. and colored it grey.

                  the wall that is supposedly in the shadows is a lighter grey then the screen and the wall in the sunlight is colored white.

                  dotdotdot

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                    richcat
                    last edited by 23 Sept 2010, 18:51

                    Cool Jeff πŸ˜‰ , your way of doing got me thinking about the shadows, had a go using "jeff" technique, but still alot work to do to get correct gradient in PS when exporting individual textures.
                    Wondering how to get it to work for jhearcht?


                    Illuminated cube1.jpg

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                      shura
                      last edited by 23 Sept 2010, 22:06

                      Jeff, that is pretty smart! Reminds me of when I was trying to paint a spotlight into furniture by excessive intersecting πŸ˜†

                      painting light.jpg

                      Richard, Where can I find that Aidan blog post? Your texture trick is amazing!

                      This getting really interesting, so here is mine for you to guess - with shadows not drawn and default material only...

                      guess.jpg

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                        richcat
                        last edited by 23 Sept 2010, 23:29

                        Hi Alex
                        The Aidan Blogspot - there is a link by d12dozr fourth post down above, I missed it when initially reading. πŸ˜‰ mistook it for large signature.
                        It's about a traffic light, and how he got the green light to "glow", and what obviously intrigued me was that he painted the inside of cowl with dark green to get effect of light spill which got me thinking how to create a gradiented glow - that reminded me of right context click texture edit export for editing in your chosen paint program (making texture unique first). I have been playing around with gradient textures, and thought I could use the circular one in PS as a fake glow from a fake red lighting, which then auto imports in model to replace original, when you save in PS. Apologies if you already know this.
                        Same idea when I saw how Jeff did his shadows.

                        Now to work out yours ❓

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                          jeff hammond
                          last edited by 23 Sept 2010, 23:36

                          @shura said:

                          This getting really interesting, so here is mine for you to guess - with shadows not drawn and default material only...

                          [attachment=0:1e5qseaa]<!-- ia0 -->guess.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1e5qseaa]

                          is there no plane drawn on the screen and we're just looking through the wall and seeing the adjacent wall? (with the wall in back actually being an opening?

                          Edit- oh wait, that would take some tricky lining up to prevent the sun from shining through and messing up the ground shadow.

                          dotdotdot

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                            shura
                            last edited by 23 Sept 2010, 23:49

                            Oh yes, just realized it's the same traffic light you meant. You put a lot of thoughts in between, I didn't get it 😳
                            Beautyful idea still.

                            Tadaa! here is the key: just drawing lines to the camera and adding a face that recieves sunlight. Wonder how to get the keystoning for the TV material right...


                            matte_trick.jpg

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                              jeff hammond
                              last edited by 24 Sept 2010, 00:12

                              Ha, awesome
                              How do you figure out where the camera is?

                              dotdotdot

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                                shura
                                last edited by 24 Sept 2010, 00:57

                                Either with "film and stage" plugin, "note camera location" plugin, or with "BMVB" by Thomasz

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                                  jeff hammond
                                  last edited by 24 Sept 2010, 03:34

                                  BMVB... good one

                                  your technique with a skewed/distorted picture...

                                  scene1 tab lines everything up properly

                                  CYE.jpg
                                  πŸ˜†

                                  http://homepage.mac.com/jeffhammond/.Public/scf/curb_skew.jpg

                                  dotdotdot

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                                    shura
                                    last edited by 24 Sept 2010, 09:20

                                    Wohoo, well done Jeff!

                                    While we are taking off on this so passionately (wich in fact I enjoy a lot!) we still do not know if it is of any help to our friend Jhearcht...

                                    ...Please give us a sign Sir, animation or stills?

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                                      jhearcht
                                      last edited by 28 Sept 2010, 15:45

                                      @shura said:

                                      While we are taking off on this so passionately (wich in fact I enjoy a lot!) we still do not know if it is of any help to our friend Jhearcht...

                                      I tried the stoplight technique, but I must be missing something. I placed a rectangle on the shaded side of the building, and turned off cast/receive shadows. But the face is still shaded due its position. I haven't found a way to turn-off shading for a single face. It's on a separate layer, but the Use Sun For Shading function seems to be global, regardless of the layer.

                                      PS---Due to various other SU6 limitations, I finally upgraded to SU8. Does it have any new capabilities that might "shed some light" on this situation? πŸ˜‰

                                      PPS---I found that a yellow face looks brighter in shade than a white face. Fortunately, yellow is one of the school colors.

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                                        shura
                                        last edited by 29 Sept 2010, 08:32

                                        Hi again,

                                        shadow1.jpg

                                        When geometry casts shadow ON ANOTHER face - then you can prevent that geometry from casting shadow elsewhere by unchecking "Cast Shadows" for the geometry (2nd picture).

                                        shadow2.jpg

                                        The stoplight technique works by preventing the respective face from recieving shadow FROM OTHER geometry by unchecking "Recieve Shadows" (3rd picture).

                                        shadow3.jpg

                                        However, in your case we are not talking about a shadow that is cast somewhere else. The side of your face is simply not recieving sunlight in the first place - if you want, it casts the shadow on itself (don't know the right word for this, my translation would be "body shadow").
                                        It seems that Sketchup cannot switch this off separately.

                                        There are a few workarounds to produce stills like we have described before, but if you want to create an animation with shadows displayed (exept for your screen), then it looks like you have to do it in post process or just turn your model to have the screen face the sun.

                                        happy if this helps
                                        alex

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                                          jhearcht
                                          last edited by 30 Sept 2010, 19:06

                                          I had given up on the idea of showing internal illumination of an LED-TV screen on the shaded side of the building. But I just discovered a glitch that looks like internal illumination. The first image is the normal image with two signboards. The second is what happened while I was playing with the UTC setting for time of day. The rendering would stop with everything dark except the screen facing the sun. Then after a few random clicks, it would render properly.

                                          I don't have any idea what's going on here. But maybe someone can figure out how to take advantage of this anomaly to simulate internal lighting for an object in shade.

                                          Normal View :

                                          http://home.mindspring.com/~gnomon/LED signboard_in shadow.jpg

                                          Glitch View :

                                          http://home.mindspring.com/~gnomon/Dark wall_bright screen.jpg

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