Best landscape Rendering Program

csilewski · 2 Apr 2009, 14:48

I have a project to do that envolves alot of extior shots of a campus with a few section perspectives of buildings and landscape. What is your your opinion on the best rendering program for sketchup? We have tried only photoshop thus far and willing to try anything new. Suggestions?

solo · 2 Apr 2009, 14:49

Vue 7, hands down.

Gaieus · 2 Apr 2009, 15:06

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csilewski · 2 Apr 2009, 15:48

How easy is it to pick up?

solo · 2 Apr 2009, 15:55

Tough one to answer mate, how knowlegable are you with rendering apps?

How urgent is the project?

Gaieus · 2 Apr 2009, 16:31

also, consider that the base package is not very cheap either but to make it even more realistic, you will need a couple of additional plantmodels, ecosystems (although you can create these yourself), materials etc. -most of them costing an aditional couple of bucks each.

As for its easiness - there is a free personal learning edition which allows you to evaluate your knowledge and see how it could fit into your time,projects and budget.

rcossoli · 2 Apr 2009, 19:06

for my Vue 7.
but ... There are other programs of landscape quality which has vue?

csilewski · 21 Apr 2009, 17:01

Thanks for the info.. next project im going to give it a go.

notareal · 24 Apr 2009, 07:26

Kerkythea do have a powerful instancing brush feature. Cant say it would beat Vue7 in large scale animated nature creation, but in smaller scale it's fairly effective. Take a look on gallery or forum wip/final renders.
Learn to use it with Instancing Brush Tutorial for 2008 Echo and get some model libraries and start painting your canvas with vegetation.