for Sketchup
http://light-up.co.uk

Grandioso ......... very very cool
Tanks

LightUp can do GPU-based realtime lighting (like Lumion etc), or you can bake the lighting. It really depends on what you want.

Also added a simple raytracer embedded inside the Preferences dialog which can give you a quick preview thumbnail without needing to run the whole lighting process:



The dull sounding "No Backface culling" is pretty neat too. You may want to model with backface culling (ie just showing Front faces) but when it comes to plants and foliage in particular, it looks horrible to 'lose' half your foliage. Enabling "No Backface culling" for that Group means you get the density but keep the performance.

One year later :)




Very funny to use! :)
In 10 seconds you make the lights mood + render of all the scene inside you can walk!




And directly AO or No lights!

And the more funny!

Animation inside LightUp works with any animation Sketchup plugin like this crazzy one!
By Eneroth
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=57831

So you can orbit, zoom etc... during the animation!