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    • G Offline
      guibot
      last edited by

      Hello all, my first post here 😄

      I am giving first steps with sketchup, I already went into basic modeling and going fine until now.

      I would like to know a few things about rendering scenes:

      • how to get better renders?

      • how to add lights? and how to deal with shadows to have a more realistic effect?

      sorry about this basic questions, but I would love to know more about this subjects.

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      • GaieusG Offline
        Gaieus
        last edited by

        Hi Guilherme and welcome!

        SU is basically a modelling tool (as you noticed) and has limited capabilities in rendering. It doesn't do "photorealistic" rendering, doesn't have lights (other than the only Sun) and shadows can only be "tweaked" to be darker or lighter a bit...

        There are a lot of external rendering engines and plugins (some of which work pretty much like "inside" SU) which can help to achieve more realistic results. Depending if you are inclined to invest a couple of bucks, beside the free ones (like Kerkythea), you have a good selection between about $150 up to about $ 1000.

        Have a look at the sticky post in the Gallery forum: "Render applications home pages" to have n idea.

        (I'm sure some members will chime in and suggest this or that renderer... 😉 )

        Gai...

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        • S Offline
          SFX Group
          last edited by

          Ive been using Podium (its free up to 500x500 res), seems ok to output what you want....

          It has some clever features like "bump" maps and lighthing (which i havnt got to work fully yet).

          Many Thanks

          Many Thanks
          Ashley

          © Copyright 2014 - http://www.ashleygriffin.co.uk

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          • D Offline
            d12dozr
            last edited by

            I've used IDX Renditioner free version and it is easy to get good results with.

            3D Printing with SketchUp Book
            http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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            • B Offline
              barrington
              last edited by

              The Podium plug-in is not expensive and well worth buying. It is improving all the time and the results are excellent. It also gives registered uses some excellent light fitting as well as other goodies.

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              • Al HartA Offline
                Al Hart
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                Render Plus just released a new low cost, integrated renderer for SketchUp - nXtRender - so if you are interested in a very good, low cost renderer for SketchUp take a look:

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                IRender nXt from Render Plus

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                • K Offline
                  kwistenbiebel
                  last edited by

                  Talking about marketing... sigh. 😕

                  I think the best way to decide on a render engine is to go to the gallery section here on SCF, see what images you like ,what render engine is used to make them and decide based on that.

                  Asking it in a thread will give you biased or commercial answers by developers, pushing their product.

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                  • B Offline
                    bahri
                    last edited by

                    but if u want a free render engine try kerkythea,, it a good render

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