Problem using IES files in Sketchup? Please help.
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:50 pm
I am very new to both Sketcthup and Skindigo but I have learned alot the last week and am currently working with IES light files to get my downlights to look as I want.
BUT I have a very weird problem which keps coming up.
Let's say I create a downlight and then make the downlight surface in blue and then I go into the material editor in skindigo inside of Sketchup. I then asign the material the preset of 34W Fluorescent Tube (cool) and then I scrool down and choose my IES light file from my harddrive.
Then I render the the scene into Indigo Renderer and here comes the weird part. And this happends about every other time EVENTHOUGH i have changed NOTHING in the settings in the material editor, what happends is that I always see the actual light coming down the wall and then hitting the floor which looks perfect, but sometimes the ACTUAL "lightbulb" goes dark. I mean the roof is completely black but you can still see the light coming down from it.
This happends like every second time I render eventhough nothing has changed.
If I go back and remove the downlight completely it usually workd to render it one time, but then the second time the same things happend again.
I have attached a printscreen of how it looks when it's being rendered and as you see the light is there on the wall but the actual downlight is not lit.
I have noticed that this always goes away if I remove the IES file, BUT then the light looks like disaster as it's going all over the place and I really need to be able to controll the spread of the light in this scene so that's not an option.
Please can someone help me?
Thank you in advance!
Kind regards
Emile
BUT I have a very weird problem which keps coming up.
Let's say I create a downlight and then make the downlight surface in blue and then I go into the material editor in skindigo inside of Sketchup. I then asign the material the preset of 34W Fluorescent Tube (cool) and then I scrool down and choose my IES light file from my harddrive.
Then I render the the scene into Indigo Renderer and here comes the weird part. And this happends about every other time EVENTHOUGH i have changed NOTHING in the settings in the material editor, what happends is that I always see the actual light coming down the wall and then hitting the floor which looks perfect, but sometimes the ACTUAL "lightbulb" goes dark. I mean the roof is completely black but you can still see the light coming down from it.
This happends like every second time I render eventhough nothing has changed.
If I go back and remove the downlight completely it usually workd to render it one time, but then the second time the same things happend again.
I have attached a printscreen of how it looks when it's being rendered and as you see the light is there on the wall but the actual downlight is not lit.
I have noticed that this always goes away if I remove the IES file, BUT then the light looks like disaster as it's going all over the place and I really need to be able to controll the spread of the light in this scene so that's not an option.
Please can someone help me?
Thank you in advance!
Kind regards
Emile