Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Chapter 5 Rendering in SketchUp
lights. As you can see, it features one of SketchUp’s default dummy 3D people as a model
and has a continuous back and floor “canvas,” as well as reflective sides. The lines visible in
the setup have been divided into equal parts to provide points to which we can attach lights
(simply by snapping them to endpoints of the line segments). As discussed, lines are not rendered
and can therefore remain in the SketchUp model.
Figure 5.43: Studio setup for evaluation of light rendering
First, let’s evaluate a default lighting setup consisting of three omni lights. Figure 5.44
shows the result (on the left) and the setup for this (on the right). Two lights were placed
above and slightly behind the model and one above and slightly in front of the model. This
case used a white light color and the same light intensity for all three omni lights.
Figure 5.44: Setup with three similar omni lights
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