IDX Renditioner: anyone tried it yet?

serrot

self-explanatory topic. i have just stumbled on this new rendering plugin for SUp (Win and Mac). it seems as easy to use as podium. has anyone tried his/her hand at it?

I just checked out the site thanks to the link provided by Frederik and it is none other than IMSI....so could this be "Turbosketch" with a different name???

My experience with IMSI.
Terrible customer service.
Tech support...what tech support?, emails are not replied to and just try calling the support line, what a joke.
I posted my dissatisfaction about their lack of good service in different forum and got replies back from members who had encountered the same situation with IMSI.

solo

I do not know much about IDX, but if indeed it is Turbosketch in disguise I too will stay away.
As said above the service sucked when I tried it out last year.

kwistenbiebel

Maybe people can take the opportunity and post some renders, made with that render engine, here in this thread.
In that way, it can still remain a gallery thread.

I am curious anyway to see some output as I don't know zip about IDX besides it being an Accurender thing.

Edson

well, yesterday i posted 2 topics in their forum and got quick replies from one of their mods. and good ones at that.

however, a couple of hours of testing showed that although all the switches are close at hand and are easy to understand and operate the results are far from satisfying. perhaps it is my lack of experience so i will keep trying to get the hang of it.

Stinkie

I too fond Imsi's service lacking. Even obtaining a working serial was, to say the least, quite a task. Sub par service, unfriendly, etc, etc.

HOWEVERRRRR ... They claim to have cleaned up their act. New team, fresh approach. Edson, will you keep us posted?

linea

I second the opinions that IMSI customer support is poor, I'll even go so far to say that this is perhaps why they are so out of touch with the marketplace. I've tried many IMSI products and they all fell down somewhere.

Edson

in case you are wondering whether IDX Renditioner has anything to do with the ill-famed TurboSketch, have a look at the attached: it is the very TS with a different name!. let's hope they have really cleared their act.

kwistenbiebel

I think the generated output is the important thing.
The after sales service is something they could fix (or already have fixed?).
So lets see some renderings.

wmanning

Hi everybody, I'm William, and I'm running the plug-in division at IMSI/Design called IDX. I'll put in a proper introduction in the Newby Forum (although I've been here off and on for several weeks). I'll try to be informative here and not do an advertisement, but forgive me if I cross the line...

I'm new to IMSI/Design since the TurboSketch product came out, but I can tell you that we have changed the management and the culture around the product.

A little naming history: evidently the TurboSketch Studio name was only meant to be for a retail bundle when we brought the SketchUp free version and our first renderer to the US retail market. At the time of the launch the plugin was planned for stand-alone sales as "IDX Rendition" then we got word of another product being released by that name (TurbobSketch is even listed that way on the SketchUp Plugins site which I hope will change by the time you read this). By default it was called TurboSketch. We're not changing the name to hide from a past where we dropped the ball for support and didn't follow up when we needed to with updates.

In a moderate defense of my collegues I must say that TurboSketch did do a good job in some environments, for what it was designed to do, and truly has a simple UI. 4/5 review from Macworld, 4.5/5 from Architosh (Tim Danaher: http://www.architosh.com/features/2008/reviews/turbosketch/index.html). But it was also marketed as Mac universal when it had huge problems on the PowerPC Mac as opposed to Intel-based Macs. And the activation system was horrible and wasn't replaced when it should have been.

Not so IDX Renditioner. The Mac version goes far beyond TurboSketch in quality, speed (faster plus multithreading), and in lighting control. The PC version, out today, also outshines the old TurboSketch. Both allow for 16 megapixel image sizes. My renders on the site aren't great (I've only been doing 3D modeling for a short time) but the video shows the UI reasonably. Enough advertorial.

Sorry about the length, and Coen, sorry about the advertorial. I hope it was more informative than crass marketing.

And @ Chris & Stinky: I lived in Belgium during 4 of the best years of my life!

Cheers,
William

remus

CHeers for taking the time to explain all that, i was getting quite confused about the whole IDX/turbosketch thing

solo

I received an email today advertising this product for $149.00, is there a demo available in order to evaluate before purchase?

Frederik

@solo said:

I received an email today advertising this product for $149.00, is there a demo available in order to evaluate before purchase?

You can just visit their site and register...
http://www.idx-design.com/IDX/IDXRenditioner/IDXRenditionerTrialRegistration/tabid/715/Default.aspx

Edson

@solo said:

I received an email today advertising this product for $149.00, is there a demo available in order to evaluate before purchase?

yes, there is. it seems that they just released a windows version. for once, the first version was for mac.