3D Ceiling Fan (Lighting)

[snmavronis]

I'm modeling my house and although there is a similar fan design in SH3D it does not have a light option built-in. I can't seem to add lights around it without making the globe look black in areas. Is there a free model compatible with SH3D of a ceiling fan similar to this that lights? If not a globe light fan, a separate cluster of lights might be acceptable but I prefer a 4-bladed fan. I've been looking all over the place.

Or any tips for properly lighting the stock SH3D fan without looking fake would be appreciated. I wish it's ball was translucent so I could put a single light inside.

[Mike53]

Something like this

fan and lamps are from sh3d library
File here

[SeppoV12]

Quick and dirty solution:
- make ceiling fan ball material (CeilingFan6900_4_4) invisible
- replace ball with transparent ball (same place and dimensions)

Transparent balls can be found from SketcUp 3D Warehouse and they seem to be problematic but here are one result:



My test file here:

Mike was quicker but I send this any way..

Seppo

[snmavronis]

Thank you guys! I'll check this out.

[snmavronis]

Hmm... Can't get rid of that black hole chrome ball effect and any brighter than 25% washes out the fan blades. After studying what you guys did, I simply made the fan's light globe invisible and added the SH3D pendant hanging ball with it's ceiling cable invisible. I haven't tried different renderers yet. What's the best to use?



This is to visualize our kitchen remodel to be scheduled soon, but I'm working on modeling my whole townhouse.

[SeppoV12]

Yafaray is my favourite render, usually it handles lighting better but is also slower in some cases.
I still have problems with that same 'black hole chrome ball effect', I try something new.

[Puybaret]

As explained in this thread, you could try to set [font=courier new]illum[/font] to [font=courier new]0[/font] for the material [font=courier new]CeilingFan6900_4_4[/font] in the MTL file of the fan that you use.

[snmavronis]

I read parts of that thread about using illum=0 although with an exported ball pendant lamp and Kd 1.0 1.0 1.0 for white in the MTL. I get this effect at least with a white-ish light ball in the "original" pendant ball lamp. I got this result but now that I'm re-reading Puybaret's suggesting again I should go back and export the fan model itself! What I did was easy but too many steps and no glow effect. Let me test this again your way since I misread it slightly.

[snmavronis]

Oh before I forget how to I set the Global illumination path? Is that a separate plug-in?

[snmavronis]

Editing the MTL file of the exported ceiling fan directly gave me this undesired result - only downward lighting. I'm not sure what the other default parameters are in the CeilingFan6900_4_4 section:

newmtl CeilingFan6900_4_4
illum 0
Ka 1.0 0.964706 0.815686
Kd 1.0 1.0 1.0
Ks 1.0 1.0 1.0
Ns 128.0