Light Balancer

using the Light Balancer.

the Light Balancer is an important new feature of IRender nXt which lets you quickly adjust light sources. By assigning channels to sun, sky, and groups of lights, you can quickly adjust the intensity of each channel with a slidebar and immediately see the effect on the final rendering.

You can quickly adjust the intensity of each channel with a slide bar and immediately see the effect on the final rendering. This will saves time both in determining the relative intensities to use for light sources and in fine tuning the final image before publication.

Videos and Tutorials

• Light Balancer Video
• Balanced Lighting Tutorial
• See: Light Balancer

Create Lamp or Light Fixture

Spotlight component - generated at proper size and angle.

Adding lamps and light fixtures will provide lighting for your Interior Scenes or Nighttime Scenes.

• SketchUp lamps - many SketchUp lamps are automatically used as light sources.

• Create Lamp or Light Fixture - the lamp wizard makes it easy to add custom lamps.
• Components and Lamps - the Object Properties Wizard makes it easy to turn any surface or object into a lamp.
• Video: Interior Lighting Basics
• See: Create Lamp or Light Fixture

Self Glow

Television with 10% self-glow

Self Glow illuminates a surface as if it had light shining on it, without actually making it a light. For objects which you want to appear bright, but which don't need to illuminate other objects, this is much faster than making lights out of them.

• See: Self Glow

Lighting Balance

The lighting balance slider is on the Presets tab (in the middle on the right)

The lighting balance slider on the Presets tab lets you adjuest the balance between Sun/Sky and Artificial Lighting.

• See: Lighting Balance