Transparency

Some quick adjustments in diverse materials' diffuse, reflectance, and transmittance settings and voilá, a wall of transparent glass... Developing the materials and structures behind any transparent materials must be considered when creating future 3d models.

Pinlights & spotlights

Exploring lighting in Kerkythea this evening. Renderings below include yellow and white pinlights created in Sketchup, grouped in Kerkythea, and set to multiplier 3, radius .5. Spotlights set to: hotspots 15, fallout 100.

Night and day

What will an area look like with specifice types of fixtures, bulbs, and lighting? Plug it into Kerkythea, and get a good idea! There are quite a few options for tweaking a material's attributes, and it seems that changing one will influence the appearance of another - the windows below, while transparent in SketchUp, are nearly white here. Nevertheless, it looks like a growing understanding of lighting is underway... I'll consider translucent materials a lesson for another day - or night...