![]() You can download the standalone Lightup players from HERE and download the art gallery. Definitely worth a look if you do a lot of interiors and want to give your clients an interactive experience. It is not the cheapest plugin either but very few good things are free in this world. In terms of rendering quality, output is not quite up there with traditional raytrace renderers and I guess that is the trade-off of being able to walk around in a realtime 3d environment, so it is really about what your particular needs or preferences are. Lightup also boasts a bit of a following at Pixar (animated film company). It may mean that an HTML5 based solution may end up replacing these web player plugins.Īpart from the many architecture/building design possibilities, Lightup has many other applications particularly as it can export light “baked” textured models to FBX format, a common file format that can be imported by many other programs, most notably the Unity gaming engine. ![]() Hopefully the author will address this issue in the near future.ĮDIT 5/1/17: It does appear that internet browser security is moving away from plugins and moving towards HTML5 for embedding interactive media. I did have embedded into this webpage, an example of a virtual art gallery that I created and it was working until recently, but unfortunately recent changes to internet browser security means that the web player plugin no longer works. ![]() ![]() Well it is a bit more complicated than that and there are many different settings, but in essence it is easy to use, fast to render, and the results are very surprising.Īnd there are also various accompanying cross-platform viewers which can be used to view the rendered 3d models including a standalone iPad/iPhone player, as well as web players that work with the most common browsers. Using a fairly basic interface that works with Sketchup’s main model window, you simply place your lights, define your materials, set the background environment and press go. ![]() It is truly amazing!Īuthor Adam Billyard has a long history in the computer gaming industry and he has packed his realtime 3d rendering know-how into this extension. Unlike all of the others, the Lightup extension allows you to render your 3d model and then walk around the rendered environment in realtime - all within Sketchup. Lightup is another 3rd party rendering extension available for Sketchup, but one with a difference. ![]()
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