Lighting an Interior Nighttime Scene Using IES Lights - Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp - page 102

tain light types only correctly updating intermittently once they are turned into com-
ponents. In fact, the IES light itself seems to only update the IES profile attached to
it, ignoring other light properties.
Still, as this is a minor glitch that will no doubt be taken care of in due course, we
will go ahead regardless and walk you through the process of turning a V-Ray light
object into a component. The only thing we need to do at the moment is make sure
that all of the relevant light properties are set exactly as we want them before we go
ahead and actually create a new component from the light.
Note
Having our light as a component will give us the ability to quickly and easily up-
date all of the lights at the same time by simply editing just a single instance of
them.
The first thing we may want to do is warm the color of our lighting up a touch by per-
forming the following steps:
1. Right-click on the light object itself, and then from the menu list select the V-
Ray for Sketchup option.
2. From the flyout, select Edit light , and in the V-Ray light editor , click on the
Filter Color option in the Intensity section.
3. Now we alter the HSV color settings to read: Hue 17 , Sat 31 , and Val 255 ,
which gives us pretty much the color produced by a 5500 Kelvin lamp.
4. Click on Ok to exit the V-Ray light editor .
Once that is taken care of, with the SketchUp Select tool active, we can go ahead
and set up our light as a component with the help of the following steps:
1. Right-click on the IES light object in the scene, and then select the Make
Component option from the menu.
2. From the Window menu, select the Components option.
3. In the editor, make sure that you are viewing the In Model components by
clicking on the In Model button.
4. Locate the new V-Ray Light entry and select it.