Indigo Renderer Forum

Is this possible under Skindigo?

Sure it is! You just have to assign a RGB emitter material to you neonlight sketchup material!

Let's say, you want a red neon. In sketch you model a cylinder, then you make a sketchup material. This material should be red (call it red neon, for you to remember easily it'll be an emitter). Then double click on it to call SkIndigo material editor, and give it a RGB light preset. DONE!

Probably, you'll have to calibrate the light power and efficacy according to the light situation (if you want to use the neon light in a sun lit scene, you'll have to pump really up both the parameters, for instance...). If you render a night scene, instead, using the black background option, your light will be fine with regular power too.

Make some tries!

If your feeling really fancy, you could try wrapping the emitter geometry in a thin bit of glass. Itd add a lot to the poly count, but if youre trying to get a very realistic look it should help a lot. Probably overkill if its not going to be in the foreground though.

Thanks!

Im using an OBJ import script that I found and it seems to crash SU every time I import something with more than 15,000 polies. Are there any more official exporters in the works?

EDIT : I cant really get the edges of my object to glow... The object just becomes full green or full red. How would I do a bloom effect?

Oh, neo: your obj importer works fine! It's only taht sketch can't handle such a hige amount of polys, sadly...I think you will have to give up your project of importing such a mesh....

Well, it works if you leave it alone for a few minutes... Does Skindigo support bloom? Ive seen the effect used in some other WIPs and it looked really neat.

Hi neo0,
You can't set up bloom in Skindigo but you can download the Violet tonemapper (main page) which can load your .igi outputfile (the .igi file gets autosaved for each render you start).
With the Viloet app both bloom as glare can be assigned.