program appears in the plugins drop down menu, lists the lights and when I run
Go it renders the scene but no lights are installed. When trying to install a
light I get the light configuration, click OK, but it never adds one to the

can only copy a light and place one that way. I can copy a light from the
windmill.skp file and insert in my skp file, but only the point light because
there is no spotlights in the windmill file. I have tried to import the lights

the beta version 3.7 with the same results. I have been using 2.4. What happened
to all the other features, like area lights, real light, glow?

I have SketchUp 7.1.6860
POV-Ray version 3.6.2.msvc9.win64
and this is my system information:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition version 2003 Service Pack 2
Dell Precision M440
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
P8700 @2.53GHz
3.98 GB Ram

Thanks for any help, even if you just send me a file/scene with both lights in
it and I can copy and paste.

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> program appears in the plugins drop down menu, lists the lights and when I run
> Go it renders the scene but no lights are installed. When trying to install a
> light I get the light configuration, click OK, but it never adds one to the

> can only copy a light and place one that way. I can copy a light from the
> windmill.skp file and insert in my skp file, but only the point light because
> there is no spotlights in the windmill file. I have tried to import the lights

> the beta version 3.7 with the same results. I have been using 2.4. What happened
> to all the other features, like area lights, real light, glow?
>
> I have SketchUp 7.1.6860
> POV-Ray version 3.6.2.msvc9.win64
> and this is my system information:
> Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition version 2003 Service Pack 2
> Dell Precision M440
> Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
> P8700 @2.53GHz
> 3.98 GB Ram
>
> Thanks for any help, even if you just send me a file/scene with both lights in
> it and I can copy and paste.
>
>
>

I can't help you with the Sketchup part.

For the POV-Ray part:

A simple basic light:
light_source{Location rgb 1}

Keep in mind that the light_source is NOT visible by itself.
To make it visible, change the definition with looks_like:

light_source{Location rgb 1
	looks_like{sphere{0, 1 texture{pigment{rgb 1}finish{ambient 1}}
	}

Here is a sample spot light:
light_source{Location rgb 1 spotlight
	radius 30 // in degrees
	falloff 50 // also in degrees
	point_at <0,0,0>
  }

For an area_light, just add: area_light Dim*x, Dim*z 17,17 adaptive 0 
circular orient
to have a nice area light that act like it's a glowing sphere.

"real light" was never a feature.
"glow" "athmosphere" "halo" have been removed and replaced by media.

Please read the documentations under light_source.
For athmospheric effects, please read under interior and media.

Can you post the error message you get?



Alain

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Am 23.04.2010 15:30, schrieb lmk### [at] kmiecik-architectscom:


Uh-oh - why does "upgraded to 3.6" not sound too good to me?

 > I have been using 2.4. What happened
> to all the other features, like area lights, real light, glow?

I fear they may have undergone some serious changes in syntax back 
during the transition from 2.x to 3.x, or from 3.whatever to 3.5 (the 
latter must have occurred somewhen back in 2002 or so). Version 3.6 has 
been around since 2004.

> I have SketchUp 7.1.6860
> POV-Ray version 3.6.2.msvc9.win64

Whatever software you used for converting from SketchUp to POV-Ray 2.4 
must be pretty outdated; best bet is that this is what's causing you 
trouble.

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clipka wrote:

> Whatever software you used for converting from SketchUp to POV-Ray 2.4 
> must be pretty outdated; best bet is that this is what's causing you 
> trouble.

there appears to be a su2pov plugin for sketchup which has
version 2.4 and claims to target POV-Ray 3.6. The only place
I could find it was on the internet archive, though.

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lmk### [at] kmiecik-architectscom wrote:

> Thanks for any help, even if you just send me a file/scene with both lights in
> it and I can copy and paste.

I don't know SketchUp but there seems to be a tutorial for
the povray export plugin here

http://web.archive.org/web/20071021034239/http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/su2pov_tutorial_1.zip

which also demonstrates how to add a light. If that doesn't
work show how the exported code looks like.

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