Hi, I’m sorry if this question has been asked multiple times before, but I was wondering if the development team has any plans to implement volumetric lighting for artificial lights in the immediate or near future?
I’m using Sketchup and Enscape to design stage lighting for events, and suffice to say, being able to see all of the different light beams is very important to get the overall feel of a production.
I’m reeaaaally hoping this will be a thing in the near future for Enscape, in order to take advantage of the VR aspect of walking through a model.
@georgelegner , the ability to have volumetrics for artificial lights is already on our agenda. This has been requested before a few times already and I’ll add your for feedback to the feature request on our agenda. Not ETA regarding when this will be implemented though. We currently already have volumetric lighting for our sun - simply add fog via the Atmosphere tab of our Enscape Settings. Just in case you weren’t aware of that already.
Currently I am making a stage, and with video this already gives a great effect. I would love to see volumetric light though, just like the god rays through the mist. So the the client really can see the light beams!
So +1 from me please!
Thanks for the feedback! I’ve happily up-voted the topic on your behalf. I’d love to see that as well eventually - I have a feeling this is something we’ll provide once the hardware out there becomes even better, thus users will be able to afford the now currently high-end cards.
Thanks Demian. I’m curious, since you speak about the future, and it almost sounds far away;) But isn’t it about the same technique as what you have with fog? The volumetric light strokes/god rays.
Or is it way harder to implement something like this, for spotlights for instance, like TM has. There it also works pretty lightweight and no heavy machinery is needed.
Sorry @DeKoetsier for not replying right away - it would definitely be a challenge to add volumetric lighting for our lights as well but of course, it’s not impossible. I have very gladly filed and forwarded the further upvotes above as well. I’d love to see this functionality get added in the future as well, just at the moment there is no ETA yet I’m afraid.
@Demian_Gutberlet Any updates to all these requests for Volumetric Lighting? The two Accepted requests for it on the Chaos Enscape Ideas Portal don’t seem to clearly define if Volumetric Lighting will be for Enscape for Mac with SketchUp. Should add another Idea request for this? Can you give us an ETA update 4 years later.
Not ETA regarding when this will be implemented though. We currently already have volumetric lighting for our sun - simply add fog via the Atmosphere tab of our Enscape Settings. Just in case you weren’t aware of that already.
Thank you very much.