Podium Trouble!

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Hi!!
I'm a new user of Podium and needless to say I'm bowled over by its ease and convenience of use. It worked at a reasonably good speed when i rendered simple objects, but recently i tried to render my first major scene and it was terribly and unusually slow. I left it to render and after a whole 6 hours it had just reached 12%. and to top it all my scene isn't all that complex either (correct me if i'm wrong!). I've attached the model too so if anyone could please take a look at it and lemme know how its possible to achieve a faster render that would be great.

I use the trial version and set Podium to render at 640x480 and with a lil more than medium speed with maximum smoothness. I use a laptop with 1.8Ghz, 1GB Ram and a 256mb graphics card. I just included all this info cuz i figure the problem might lie somewhere there too.

Thanx in advance fer all the help!! God bless u guys!!

(iamjerine)

fORM.skp

ilay7k

i try to render your work with podium 1.5 b2
and results:

all your settings - test 1, render time=1m16s

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only change opacity of Translucent_Glass_Safety to 19
test 2, render time=7m18s

My hardware settings: amd-64bit 3200+(desktop pc), 1gb ram

I think you need to change pc or upgrade it...or post processing in fotoshop too
I forget to add res.1024x768

Also try Vray for sketchup(its from biased renders...)

solo

Using your settings and at 640 x 480 I rendered it at 26 seconds.
However I am using 1.5 b3.

I will add some omni lighting now and see how it turns out.

newvista

I purchased the commercial version of podium today downloaded many types of materials like stone, wood etc from their website. I extracted the files and put them in respective sketchup material folders. (For example, if it is wood, C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 6\Materials\Wood)

I do not see them when I open my sketchup program. I also found out that the materails I got from podium is .jpg files and the ones in sketchup material folders are .skm.

Could somebody help me with this please? Thanks.

remus

You'll need to import them into SU and scale thme. From there you can then copy them into the normal materials folders.

To do this you'll need a face which you know the size of, say 1x1m. You then go file->import and select the 'use as texture' option. If you then apply this to your surface at a size relative to the face.

For future reference, youd probably be better of posting thigns like this in the newbie/sketchup forum.

newvista

Thanks remus.