interior lighting in sketchup

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how do we place different kinds of lights, i.e. a downlight with a small focal point,
stronger lighting (I am lighting interior spaces and having a hard time getting the light to be strong enough) What editing features would help. Is there a general tuturial that illustrated lighting.

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Hi. The way I created lights for my first internal night render was by placing a rectangular light (but I guess it could have been a point light) inside some form of shade, as in a real light fitting. (see the last shot in my post - Chaos: Industry-leading design and visualization software)
The downlighters looked like this (and had a value of 300):-

and the ‘table lamp’ looked like this, and had a value of only 10, I guess because it was a larger rectangle and it was throwing light onto a very near object, so it would appear bright.

I don’t know if this is the best way (or only) way of making lights, so I’d welcome hearing how other people do theirs.

David

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In the tutorials section there is a lighting tutorial, so I would suggest looking over that.

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at the moment that is the way. the omni directional has no softshadow i think. so rectangular light is the option. it seems that we have different light multiplier, i normally put minimum of 2500 but it seems this is still not bright enough. do we have different version? or different scale? or is the size of rectangular light matters. cauldwell said he used 300 and its enougg. whenever i used smaller value i dont see anything, everything is dark.

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I don’t know if it helps, but I also had the Physical Camera ON, with a shutter speed of 1, f4 and film set at ISO 100 (to make the scene lighter I would have raised the ISO number). I also understand that the light being emitted by the rectangular light is relative to the scale of the rectangle, but as you can see, the rectangles in my lights are only about 80mm square.

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Damien, could you post the link to this tutorial as well as any other reference/s which explain artificially lit interiors (no sunlight) lighting settings in detail ?

Thanks in advance.

Macho

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If you go to Support and right under that will be Tutorials. On the first page will be the Lighting Tutorial. I would prefer that you actually go through the clicks and find it because there are other tutorials (that may be of interest now or in the future) that you can take a look at through that page.

But in case you really can’t find it here’s the link

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Thanks a ton D !