Renderers for newbies
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Hello,
I m very new to sketch up, just made my first file. I would like your opinions on renderers. I already have seen a lot of infos on this topic (including in those forums) but much is way too complicated for my level!
May I ask for your advice?
The 3 main points for me while choosing a renderer would be
- easy to learn: I'm never going to be a pro, so the easiest the better - as easy as Sketchup itself would be great
- available for Mac OS X
- cheap, or better has a free version (even if free version is limited to outputs no bigger than, say 600 x 600 pixels)
Reading on the web, it seemed that
- kerkythe is free but has a steep learnin curver - even installing it on mac os seems difficult, so definetely not my level
- podium and IDX rendering seems easy to learn and USED to have free versions (with limits in output sizes) but those free versions seems out
- vray and light up seem interesting too but expensive
Would you have any advice?
By the way, I m trying to build models of rooms (museum"s room, car park, basement floor) left in the dark and equiped with projectors. So what matters most to me are
- ability to render surfaces of walls and flooring (such as a carpark"s rugged walls)
- ability to render lights (a room kept in the dark with video projector emiting light)
Hence my initial interest with lightup until I was stopped by its price!!
Thank you so much for all your help and advice
Martin
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You are right: Podium still have a free version up to 500x500..if you download the 1.7.3 trial and not the newer 2.0 version, whose trial is limited to 30 days.
Judging from your image, Blender looks great but probably too difficult for me I ll start by giving Podium a try!
Thanks a lot
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I have in the past made a little tut about Podium
Maybe construction of lights is more easy with your 1.73 version
A very funny prog!
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the more easy was Podium 1.7 (just 2 cursors! ) in free version 500*500
I don't know if it's the same actually ?
(seems not follow your text 
May be you must take a look to Blender Section Internal Renderer
If you concentrate just on this subject, I believe that is not so hard
And you will have a terrific result without any limite of size for 0 € / $
It's allow you to use the Collada format for a direct link from SU
by Blender site
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