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Here's a new explainer video for LightUp - best watched in HD

That is the "front clipping plane" of the camera that is permanently enabled. Its set to be just an inch or so in front of the camera position, so I'd guess you have modelled at an extremely small scale (even if you have subsequently scaled up the Component/Group).

I posted a short video showing my new iPad Player for SketchUp models lit with LightUp. You can animate all your Scenes as well as take realtime measurements from the display.

New video showing how to export panoramas and QT VR out of SketchUp.

Hi You can get the free LightUp demo from here: http://light-up.co.uk LightUp supports area lights as well as IES lights that give realistic penumbras, so if you're doing interior lighting, its something to consider. Also LightUp comes with a free webplayer that you can embed in your webpages for others to explore your lit models. Here are some examples: http://www.light-up.co.uk/index.php?t=webplay Adam

Hi I've posted a few new tutorials for SketchUp/LightUp users: You can find them here: http://www.light-up.co.uk/index.php?t=tips Depth of Field Using Area Lights and Bloom Interior Lighting and Ambient Occlusion

New version of LightUp for SketchUp is out with realtime reflections. You can export interactive lit 3d to your web pages or the standalone Player for others to explore. Free demo available here http://light-up.co.uk Couple of Stills grabbed from a realtime walkthrough all inside SketchUp:

Not sure its what your after, but given its realtime so you can still move around as you do in SU normally, you could try LightUp as it honors the alpha in PNG images when generating shadows.

LightUp allows you to place a (HDR) panorama around your model - it will use it to light your model too. Or you can use a simple 6 image "skybox".

Thought I'd share some images done with LightUp. Lighting time was 1m2s. I used a skybox Image-based lighting Ambient Occlusion pass with direct sunlight. [ATTACH]31852[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]31854[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]31853[/ATTACH] Adam

Hi, Not exactly sure what you mean. Do you have any light sources in your model? Perhaps check 'Use Sun' to confirm that you can get some lighting. Which tutorial are you trying to follow? Adam

Just a small correction. The LightUp DEMO is a fully functional version with a 30 day limit and just time limits on realtime mode if you want to walk around your model like in a video game. Incidentally, having been in the games industry for 20 years (my first game was published in 1983 by Atari as a wide-eyed 17 year old! ) , LightUp uses a lot of video game tech. The IrrCache is very similar to the techniques used by HalfLife2 in their Source engine. Adam

Since you've got LightUp, here's a simple model to experiment with: [ATTACH]28314[/ATTACH] Its just a little house with 2 colored lights inside. Unzip, load into Sketchup and press the Tourtool in LightUp and you'll be done. SU view is this: [ATTACH]28315[/ATTACH] and lit, its like this: [ATTACH]28316[/ATTACH]

Oh, I replied to your/son's other thread: http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/31734-lighting.html Adam

Hi, I'm not exactly sure what kind of "lights" you're looking for, but you might try "LightUp" which gives you lights and shadows all from inside SketchUp. You place 'light bulbs' where you want light and/or it will use sunlight. http://www.light-up.co.uk to download the free demo. Best of luck, Adam