I want to know if I can create the effect of light strip or tube in enscape since the lighting components are both point lights ,just like the ones in the picture.
light strip
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Right now, no area lights are supported. It will come soon.
In the meantime, you can use a stripe made of emissive material. Please be sure to use the preview version of Enscape for SketchUp (at the bottom of our download page) or wait a few days for V2.0 - in the current release version, I won't get this nice soft light under the emissive surface but with the new version (or preview) it should work great.
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The light strips tend to work really well using the emissive material given in the Advanced Material file Enscape provides!
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the Advanced Material file
What is this?
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What is this?
In the blog there is a file that has all the material spheres for Debit that work well with Enscape!
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Ah, you are referring to Revit capabilities, this is a Sketchup thread, I do know we lag way behind Revit as far as functionality goes.
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Ah, you are referring to Revit capabilities, this is a Sketchup thread, I do know we lag way behind Revit as far as functionality goes.
LOL my bad sorry!!! I thought the emissive material works still with Sketchup?!
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Keyword based material settings still work of course! They're explained in depth over here.
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LOL my bad sorry!!! I thought the emissive material works still with Sketchup?!
It does "work" but not well enough or controllable enough to use as a fluorescent tube or neon, one needs to fiddle with contrasts and day times to get it to "glow" enough, but then it does not light up an area so one needs to add spots or point lights to cast light, too fiddly and not a good solution, we are waiting for better lights and well, better materials in general.
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Hello Solo,
thank you for your answer, but I have to disagree. I have take the time to create a small comparison emissive materials in Revit / SketchUp, and while the controls of course are different, there's no real difference in quality:
Revit:
SketchUp:
I know this is a very basic test, if you're aware of any shortcomings feel free to share them with us, but I just wanted to make sure that there's no real difference in quality between Revit and SketchUp at this point.
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Hi, maybe a suggestion to put some sample material/lighting example files to give us the most / best available solutions to get on with it? Or an extended webinair especially about this subject to get the most out of the Enscape capabilities as in Revit and Sketchup platform?
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Hi RemcoNL , thank you for your message!
We have material- and IES sample files on our website, however, only as Revit projects at this point. I'll recommend to also release those projects for SketchUp, too.
If you wish for a webinar on this topic, feel free to schedule one with me whenever it fits you best, we can discuss this topic in depth if you wish.
