SketchUp and LightUp

SketchUp and LightUp based tutorials (sometimes additional software depending on tutorial). Learn how to perfect your modeling with new post-processing skills, techniques and easy to follow step by step instructions provided by highly talented professional contributors.

Neon Lights with LightUp for SketchUp by Adam Billyard

This tutorial will show how to use Material properties to control how LightUp illuminates surfaces and then use this with realtime Bloom to achieve a great neon light effect.

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Volume Light Effects – LightUp for SketchUp by Adam Billyard

This tutorial by Adam Billyard will show you how to use the LightUp Material properties to create cool Volume light effects. You can download the LightUp free demo here if you want to try this tutorial out for yourself.

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Interior Lighting with LightUp for SketchUp by Adam Billyard

The following tutorial will take you step by step through the process of rigging lighting in SketchUp for rendering in LightUp. LightUp for SketchUp is a SketchUp plugin that adds realistic, realtime lighting to your SketchUp models.

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Blending with Backdrops: LightUp for SketchUp by Adam Billyard

This tutorial will get you started on how to set up a model using LightUp for SketchUp, a SketchUp plugin that adds realistic, realtime lighting to your SketchUp models. This tutorial will cover using image-based Lighting (IBL), blending shadows from your model with a backdrop, positioning the backdrop relative to your model and adjusting the Field of View.

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