SketchUp in Night Shoot

Hi All:

I find a new express in SketchUp. It's very simple and work fast.

My English is poor.so I feel hard to talk about with you.If you are interested.more images and movies in this website: http://www.aitop.com/post/view?bid=55&id=52992&tpg=1&ppg=1&sty=1#53139 (dead link)

regard

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This one export only in SketchUp

Very nicely done. What rendering software did you use?

Frank

Wellhorse,

Amazing! What settings did you use?

Frank,

If I understood it right, Wellhorse has used only SU to achieve these!

Anssi

Frank,

I have used only in SketchUp,no other rendering software.so it works fast.

I only set the material transparent in middlenight , then turn the shadow on.

screenshot

Wellhorse -- Thanks for the tip. Your Night002 image looks amazing.

Regards, Ross

Wellhorse,

nicely done. all sketchup? How did you do the gradient on the sloped roof in the first one? The blueish texture on the mountains? Just like to know. Good work!!

Scott

Scott,

All SketchUp,and I set a blue fog in scene.

Wellhorse

Thanks Wellhorse -- the fog is another great tip!

Very nice!

The ethereal glow and the lighting threw me...........really a great job!

wellhouse, you are the best! are you in haerbin china ? your works are always excellent!

Just one question?

From were did the A "icon" come?? and what did it do?

I look all over my sketchup and never find it

Land,

I'm in Shanghai. that one in Haerbin you said is my friend, His name is"Ateacher" in net.

Wellhorse

Javier Diaz,

It's a plugins,so you can't find the icon"A" in your SketchUp.

[edit: Fog is now included with SketchUp, catamountain]

Merry Chrismas! It is my pleasure to meet you! Wellhorse, I just complete a design, at http://www.sketchup.com/forum/read.php?f=3&i=30306&t=30306.

your comments are welcome ,and please give your generous and bright advice. thank you !

Guy's

I'm stumped!

Cant find "fog" on the Mac. Didn't know it existed.

Followed Wellhorse's screenshot but still stumped!

Your outputs are great Wellhorse! Well done.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Nigel

Fog is only available via a ruby script...

See: <http://archsymb.com/ruby_files/mac_fog.rb>

for a Mac compatible version...

TIG

[edit: Fog is now included with SketchUp, catamountain]

Wellhorse very impressive presentations.

Could you please tell me whether the fog ruby script is available for PC please, or if anyone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction.

Cheers

John.

Hello John,

Look for fog.rb at <http://amazone.crai.archi.fr//Ruby/RUBY_Library_Depot.htm>.

[edit: Fog is now included with SketchUp, catamountain]

Wellhorse,

Your work always using creative technique! Excellent SketchUpper!

Are you an artist?

Anan Lee

Thanks,

I used it on my house project and now I have a new dimension for my presentation.

Great!!!!!!!!!!

Wellhorse,

Well done, thanks for uploading. It is great to find techniques to extend the Sketchup magic. I downloaded and doctored your image using the "Bajan overlay technique" which can be found at:

http://www.sketchup.com/forum/read.php?f=3&i=29825&t=29825

I also added another layer in photoshop and used the "outer glow" of the blending options to add a glow to the windows.

I agree with you to be as efficient as possible, but I think that 5 minutes in photoshop can make the images cooler.

kyokoo

danniyeh.

Nice work, keep it up.

Kyokoo,

It's real a great way,thank you.But I Usually set the images like this way.

Happy new year!

Wellhorse

Wellhorse,

Good job, the coolest thing is to see the Chinese version of Photopaint. And the fashion models are well done as well. It would be great if you could get them into a Sketchup model, are they vector?

Keep up the good work, I hope to use your technique on a theatre project. It is cool to figure out how to use Sketchup even more.

Chicago

Wellhorse,

Good work!

how do you get the light in the windows and car lights

You're screenshots look amazing. I've been trying to achive the same, but I couldn't get it like yours. I've been told to use photoshop, but I found that a bit unpractical. Can you give a few tips and tricks on how to get started, with the lights, fog, and nightview.

Thanks, Keep up the excellent work.

Seb

I agree with Seb, Is there any way you could share with us the initial steps to start with?

It is an exellent work and it´s amazing that you did all in SU only.

I hope you can help the community a little bit to achive that quality.

Thanks man and keep going.

Regards from México,

Arturo.

Another interesting test, all these demands cost you for several seconds,It only display the axes's color.

how do u do the scenery? these have gotta be amongst the best native Su output images around

well done

Hi,

I can't use English elucidation all for this, so I want to spread the model document up to be here.

But I tried to all fail several times.Who can tell me, can ascend to spread much document once?

thanks,

Wellhorse

i think i have it figured out, and i must say, brilliant work, Wellhorse!! it looks like an interesting exploit of the way SU handles the rendering of transparent surfaces combined with shadows, and feels like one of those neat things that gets "fixed" in later versions of software

1. select your intended soon-to-be-glowing material and make your way to the Edit Material box via the Entity Info box. set Opacity somewhere between about 60 - 99%. higher values makes your end product brighter, but of course less transparent. 100% won't work, that just makes it a normal surface again, subject to the darkness we'll let fall in the next step, whereas any below 60% becomes increasingly too transparent and also looks dark.

also, use colors that are already bright, like yellows or whites. dark blue just can't be made to glow like bright yellow can!

2. make sure Shadow Settings are enabled, like Wellhorse mentioned. change your time and month to something as dark as you can get it, but stop just short of the end of the scale.

3. last but certainly the most important, change the Darkness color to 100 percent white. this seems to be the key in getting your whites whiter! i don't know why transparents still react to this even after the sun has set, but react they do!

Wellhorse, thanks so much for sharing. i hope i haven't let the secret magic rabbit out of the hat

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