Modeling a Light Cone - Skill Builder

[@nickes6168]

Brilliant. Not only the light cone but that texture trick. Side note, sick shirt.

[@richardvankesteren7013]

Excellent video Aaron, thanks. I was looking for this for the headlights of a car in an evening scene.

[@perkrog8310]

Hi! A great video.4.02 in the video. One important thing I think you need to mention is that the image should be imported as Texture. (Options). My default settings were set to 'image'. And I fiddled around a bit before I found out why the image was not inserted correctly into the square. 😁🤔. 5.13. When I delete the ring parts there are holes (wedges) in the cone ?? 😒

[@jamal9584]

Thanks Aaron. I learnt something new

[@marakony]

try cranking down shadow settings to a night time and play with dark/light settings and you'll see light texture will start to glow.

[@famcivilengineer34]

Awesome trick to create beam of light.. Thanks Aaron

[@jspost3]

Very helpful. I've found lighting models with existing gradient elements like that and didn't know what it was for.

[@madwani]

I really liked the idea of modeling everything in a scene including objects like liquids, lights & smoke.

[@OveToranger]

Deceptively simple. Always nice when someone do the hard work and makes it look easy :) Thank you !

[@barrymcfadyen4910]

Enlightening! Great tip.. thanks!

[@jeepeedc9345]

Petite astuce bien simple mais efficace ! Merci pour le partage :)

[@douglasmichel6361]

Add a radial gradient to stage surface.

[@AaronMakingStuff]

Bonus points!!

[@keggyification]

ice one Aaron, Can these be coloured?

[@AaronMakingStuff]

Yes! Though you can either impost colored gradients or change the color of the imported texture using the color window!

[@markthomas207]

This is something I would like to use and create, unfortunately I can't get beyond the "Follow me" and draw the cone. I get an error message that says:The path you have chosen does not begin or end on the extrusion cross section. Another question, once I get to it is, where can I find the linear gradient you download as the fill texture?

[@yavtodorov]

Best part of the video seeing how irate Aaron gets with dumb comments. Thanks for the content!

[@m.a.stough4994]

Great, but we need some more insights into renderers...SUPodium, Indigo, etc..

[@orbsphere-]

Would liked to have seen how an object inserted partially into the light cone would have been affected. I make the cone and assign a color of some transparency value to it. There are a couple examples in my model collection. No gradient image required.

[@snakestan2]

This is great, Aaron! I'm a lighting designer so this application is very helpful!

[@leosison-s5z]

how did he do the paintbrush on the cone... pls help elaborate to me. TIA

[@SketchUp]

Aaron says at 4:44 he uses the Paint Bucket tool, then using the modifyer key on the keyboard (option/ctrl) he sampled the gradient material...then pasted in on the cone surface.

[@leosison-s5z]

@@SketchUp thank you.....

[@xingfu5445]

How to draw the whole model, can you make a teaching video?

[@aliaskinvarmak8009]

I can't pick the gradient on surfaces can you help me

[@badalgupta2301]

Amazing video, hi can you make a video on false ceiling design

[@nicolacalderisi7692]

Thank you for these Square Ones!

[@dirkheffter2316]

Where do I find the gradient element?

[@nyekygabor]

Cool idea! Is it possible for the light cones not to have a shady, shadowy side? That's the only thing that makes the beams look a bit unnatural IMO.

[@DarkMoonDroid]

This isn't about making it look natural. It's about getting an idea about how the lighting will work in the setting. If you turn on Shadows, it will turn _every object_ into a shade-caster. The only way to make it look natural is to use a renderer and something like lumion.

[@DarkMoonDroid]

I am afraid of dl'ing textures/materials onto my hard drive from the wild wild web. Do you have anything on how to know what sites are reliable?

[@DarkMoonDroid]

I just joined SketchUp Texture Club and was curious about becoming a Member, but I don't have Euros, so ... I can't? Anyhoo... Hoping someone can help me here. I'm looking for ... a "linear gradient"? Just did a search for that and got nuthin'... Just did a Google Search and also got nuthin'! - also tried "transparent gradient". All this is useless if I don't have that texture.

[@CZ_SK_railways]

please, what kind of device You are using for changing POW (orbit, pan, ....) Thanks ....

[@SketchUp]

Aaron uses a SpaceMouse Enterprise 3D mouse from 3DConnexion

[@CZ_SK_railways]

@@SketchUp Thank You very much ...

[@chrisb3927]

Excellent tip Aaron!! Where did you get the linear gradient?

[@mrsbingh]

Yes, I'd like to know too. Thanks!

[@chrisb3927]

Me too!! 😁

[@theringthingz1916]

That was great thanks!

[@aldemar9830]

great model

[@valentinvyazemskii]

Thnks man!

[@williamgorodetsky]

Genius