SketchUp – Rendering with LightUp training
2 days In centre:
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Live online:
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Key details
Learn to use the LightUp plugin to create the features you require in your SketchUp scenes, including lighting, reflective surfaces and moving cameras.
The LightUp plugin lets you create highly realistic 3D architectural and interior design scenes in SketchUp. It provides fast and simple real-time rendering within the SketchUp window, plus an interactive model you can share with your own customers.
Our SketchUp – Rendering with LightUp course teaches you the fundamentals you need to start using LightUp.
SketchUp – Rendering with LightUp training is arranged on-request, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed course’ for your group. Your training can be tailored to take into account any existing knowledge you have, and the work you’re going to be doing.
In-class or online
Our centres are open for in-class training, with full safety measures and comprehensive sanitisation implemented.
We continue to offer all courses in our popular live online format.
Expert trainer
V-Ray training is hosted by Rod Cleasby, a highly-experienced instructor with vast professional experience of using SketchUp, LightUp and other renderers professionally.
Training guide and certificate
Course delegates receive:
- A comprehensive training guide for SketchUp, to refer to throughout the course, and to use as a refresher afterwards.
- An e-certificate confirming successful completion of SketchUp training. Click here to see an example of the certificate you receive.
After course support
Following SketchUp training, delegates are entitled to 30 days’ email support from their SketchUp trainer to help with any post-course issues. For further details, see Support.
Prerequisites
Delegates should be familiar with the fundamentals of SketchUp, i.e. have attended our Introduction to SketchUp course or have equivalent knowledge.
SketchUp version
Training can be based on any recent version of SketchUp Pro and the LightUp plugin to suit you, running on Windows or Mac.
General information
Course times
Standard course times are 9.30am–4.30pm.
As we’d be hosting this as a ‘closed course’ for you/your group, there’s usually flexibility to change these times to suit you, e.g. start or end 30 minutes earlier or later.
Payment
Payment for LightUp training can be made by:
- Bank transfer. Please call 01527 834783 for our bank details.
- Card. All major credit and debit cards accepted. Payment can be made securely online or over the phone. Card payments are processed by Stripe. Armada doesn’t record or store your card details.
If you’re self-funding your training, you can pay in staged payments, interest-free, over 12 months. For further details, see Staged payments.
Purchase orders
We accept purchase orders from UK-registered companies or public sector organisations.
Accommodation
See Accommodation local to our training centres.
Cancellations and postponements
If an on-request SketchUp – Rendering with LightUp course booking is cancelled giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a cancellation fee is payable. View cancellation terms.
If an on-request SketchUp – Rendering with LightUp course booking is postponed giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a postponement fee is payable. View postponement terms.
Terms and conditions
Expert trainer
Rod Cleasby
Rod has over 25 years’ experience working as a designer, visualisation expert and artist. His specialist areas include architecture, interior design and the production of photorealistic 3d virtual environments.
AutoCAD, 3ds Max and SketchUp have been the mainstay of Rod’s professional work for 20 years. He is also an expert in various related tools and technologies, including Photoshop, and he has expert knowledge of a wide range of renderers, including V-Ray, ART, Arnold and LightUp.
Rod has extensive experience training experience. He has worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster on their Computer Visualisation course, and he is a long-established Autodesk Certified Instructor.
Away from his professional work, Rod is an accomplished artist and musician, and a prolific writer of novels, novella, poetry and prose.
Course content
What is LightUp 3D interactive?
How to get around inside LightUp
Move, pan and rotate
Understanding the XYZ axis
LightUp toolbars
Standard preferences
Ambient occlusion
Speed and mouse control
Adding lights
Adjusting lights
Editing light profile
Adding IES light profiles
The Tour tool
What makes improved results
Time investments and benefits
Textures from SketchUp
Tweaking existing textures
Adding bitmaps
Adding reflections
Making components that remember
Creating a digital warehouse
Database benefits
Modelling techniques for LightUp
Paint Bucket and Materials Editor
Textures and bitmaps
What makes a good texture?
Where to find textures
How to edit textures
Positioning textures
Limits to graphics and bitmaps
Animation
Controlling transition speed and delays
Tabs and updates
Create new scenes
Create new styles
Saving new styles
Exporting 2D images
Time savings
Exporting Alpha channels
Exporting the interactive model
Downloading and installing the plugin
Starting the interactive model
Navigation and touring the cameras
LightUp on iPad
Live online training
Live online training lets you participate in a LightUp course from your place of work or home.
We do everything possible to make your online training experience as close as possible to actually being in the classroom. You can:
- See and hear our trainer, and see the other delegates participating in the LightUp training…
- Interact by speaking, using chat, or raising your ‘virtual hand’ if you need assistance.
- Share your screen with our trainer, and allow them to control it to demonstrate something.
We endeavour to provide you with the best online training experience…
- Online SketchUp – Rendering with LightUp courses are presented by expert instructors, following the same syllabus as our classroom-based courses.
- You receive comprehensive training materials.
- Your training is hands-on. You carry out assisted exercises using LightUp.
- If you don’t have access to LightUp software, we’ll send you a link to fully-functional trial software that you can download and install.
- You’re entitled to 30 days’ email support from your trainer.
When you attend live online training, you’re participating in a real course, hosted by a real trainer, in real time.
All you need is an internet-connected computer and a webcam – see Hardware recommendations for live online training. The setup is simple, but if there’s anything you’re not sure about we’re here to help.
For a limited time, we’re offering discounts for bookings on live online courses.
Example
Typical image quality from SketchUp ‘out of the box’:
The same model rendered using LightUp:
Gary F
Steph P