

Note that if you brighten these up too much, your materials will get washed out. You can place these lights within a SketchUp component option so that you have geometry to go along with your light. Note that when you adjust this, you can see the width of the light “Cone” within SketchUp.

You can still adjust the brightness, but for this tool, you can also adjust the beam angle, or the width of the cone of light that’s created. The difference between point lights and spotlights is that spotlights have a direction – meaning they don’t just shoot light off in whatever different direction – they actually point at something – so you place these with a point, then you set a direction. One good way to create these lights in your model, like a lamp, then place a point light where the light bulb would go. Finally, note that you can adjust the amount of light these objects produce by using the scale tool to adjust their size. You can also hide or unhide these objects to turn them on and off. In addition, you can also adjust the brightness of these objects within the Enscape “Objects” menu section. You can copy/paste these objects just like normal SketchUp geometry.

You can see that this gets brought in to your model with a SketchUp object placeholder, so you can see how and where this light exists within your model. Basically all you do to add one of these is set a base point, then an actual location in 3D. The first – a pointlight – is exactly what it sounds like – it creates a point within your model that shines a light in all directions.This then gives you two different options.

You can add these to your models as objects by going up to the “Enscape Objects” button. Let’s start by taking a look at the two lighting objects, pointlights and spotlights. The first two are by adding lighting objects, and the last is by creating an emitter material. There are 3 different ways to create artificial lights within Enscape. If so, please consider supporting me on Patreon (click here to support) or by visiting my Support the Show Page! Check out the SketchUp Essentials CourseĭOWNLOAD EXAMPLE MODELS FROM 3D WAREHOUSE In this video, we discuss various different methods for creating artificial lighting using the Real-Time rendering extension Enscape!ĭo you like these SketchUp tutorials and videos?
