I need to render an animation with lights on. Animation runs along the straight line (highway), with lights being not too bright markings on the noise-potection wall, I need to preserve original (as close as possible) Sketchup look, no textures. Night time, light on.
I studied what was discussed here before and I found out this: I need a plug in, for example LightUp for light, CLF camera recorder to record the movie, probably Kerkythea.
Does anybody have experience with this particular case to advise me exactly which plug-ins will help me?
Iād recommend learning how to use Twilight Render V2 and MSPhysics. With mastery of those two extensions, you can make animations like this.
For tutorials, Iād look on Youtube. A user named TutorialsUp has lots of quality MSPhysics tutorials. To learn Twilight, Iād recommend reading the user manual and looking on the Twilight forums.
Forestr, thank you. This video is great. However, I need to animate a really basic, no texture model. We already have a day time model like this and I need to keep it within set parameters.
Depends on your budget, Keyshot can achieve the SketchUp look with itās toon shaders while also giving you simple but effective animation controls and lights.
Iād recommend Enscape. Not as expensive as others and great set of video tools. Less complex than other software. Note itās PC only for now. See 5 min effort adding spot lights to street lamps and exporting animation.
An alternative approach is to do 100% inside of SketchUp. While not photorealistic at all, it wonāt cost you anything and starts to get the point across.
I donāt think you can run any plugins in the web version?
You can cheat lighting effects which would also keep the raw sketchup look.
For a free option, you could use Blender, which has animation and rendering capabilitiesā¦however, any rendering will change the look of the model and make it less like normal sketchup. While it may get complicated, you could do a lighting pass on a clay version and overlay it on a ānaturalā unrendered sketchup pass.
@olesya.yefimovās profile says both SU Free and v2016 so not clear which version as youāre right @whiterabbitdesigncompany, not being able to use extensions limits the options.
I am not sure, it seems that you are talking about static image. This is simpler, and I would just darken it and make bright stripes of light - we donāt need anything elaborate (engineers )
I will try your suggestion tho. Thank you.
Just like Ericās animation, this is a video output from one scene to another but the watermark stays in place through the transition and so appears to be moving with the car POV.
As a British subject living in the USAā¦ after 28 years I still find myself (on occasion) trying to get in the āwrongā side of the car ! I just have to pretend it was deliberate.
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