What is your favorite overall rendering engine for SketchUp?

Ecuadorian

Getting too upset over the results when it represents roughly 0.1% of the membership of this forum is pretty strange if you ask me

I always find it funny how some people believe their native language is the "most expressive and complete one", or how their particular dialect or accent is "the only neutral one in the language", or how their national food is the "best in the world". Most of my friends are like this, with the big exception being one who has mastered Chinese and English besides her native Spanish, befriending native speakers in the process.

Truth is, you only realize the shortcomings of your own language/dialect/cuisine/favorite software/etc when you truly learn and appreciate another.

roland joseph

Lumion - render time 14 seconds. No postpro, no 2d or billboard or clips...all3d and movie ready.
The movie from which this was taken is 45 seconds long and rendered in just over an hour.
Seems hard to beat.

prostata123

Hi guys
I'm new here but I follow your forum from a very long time

Well well, what do we have here
a Render Engine comparison for Sketchup!

Just what I needed!

Let's say a couple of things
I've tryied Lumion and I really don't like it!
I loved the idea but it's a way to slow o my PC (mobility Eadeon HD 5400)
The Cryengine 3 instead, works very well, but I just tried Crysis 2 not the SDK (I think it would be too complicated to me)
And I also tried Keyshot and I've found it very very useful, but it's mostly for product design and not for Architecture.

And so I'm still looking for a render engine
something quick and "wow" like keyshot but for exteriors / interiors etc
What about Fryrender?
No one voted it but I remember a very useful function to swap the materials post rendering (without having to re-render the scene).
But I'm not able to find any updated information about it in their website.

What do you think?

Burkhard

If you like Keyshot, take a look at Bunkspeed Shot. The Pro Version contains lightsources.

Fryrender or Maxwell doesn't take to much.

Depends of your hardware ( when you want to update ) take a look at Octanerender, very fast but GPU based.

From the list you'll see the leaders here.

Hieru

@prostata123 said:

No one voted it but I remember a very useful function to swap the materials post rendering (without having to re-render the scene)

Thea has that via Colimo. Very useful when working with interior designers.

Burkhard

The best is to have alook at the Product Galleries or in the forum over there.
Btw. Maxwell will have the colimo integration too ( it is in pipeline ) and has with multilight a very nice feature.
Maxwell has a free and a small fee standalone Sketchup application,
Thea can be a lot faster ( biased and unbiased )and is much cheaper with a full package to start with.
Both are great.

prostata123

Thank yoo for all the answers

Well, I think that Bunkspeed shot it's very similar to Keyshot (except for the lightsources)
and it's still very product design oriented (am I wrong?)

And so, maybe I have to learn how to use Maxwell or I have to try Thea render that it's very popular around here

Do you have some exterior renderings to look at?
thank you in advance

Edit:
I'm just trying Thea Render
It seems to be just what I was looking for, even if I have no materials now.
But I still want to see your works

sawhack

I was a sole user of Vray since I seriously started learning about rendering, but lately I freqeuntly encounter error in rendering in Vray such as "you dont have enough space in temp", error rendering, materials disappear and became just color, applied bump gone, sketchup crash(bugsplat), etc. I don't know if its right to move from another rendering or find some solution in this bugs, because i'm quite sure other rendering engine have also bugs that i haven't met neither. I'm looking forward in learning more on vray and i'm trying to learn Kerythea as my alternative to vray.

Chris Fullmer

Almost sounds like you need more space on your hard drive. Are you running low on disk space?

Razorback

I just introduced SketchUp to the design/build firm I started working for recently. They love being able to show clients detailed models of their designs, complete with site info, materials, shadows, etc. I would like to up the ante a bit and begin using a rendering engine and creating fly-through clips that we can send to clients. Since this purchase will be out of pocket for me (I already own SU8 pro), price is a big consideration. From what I have been able to find online, it seems that RenderIn and Podium would be within my price range. Other than price though, I know nothing about these programs. Is one better than the other in quality, features, render time, ease of use, etc? Thanks in advance for any info!

pilou

Between RenderIn and Podium : easy of use - the same --> very easy!
Podium has more functions and is more powerful

nomo81

Recent Trick i learn from trial and error experience, and may be usefull for you guys.

The only way I have found to work the conversion of Sketchup to Vue is not using the plugin of e-on software, or exporting to obj. Artlantis is the only way i found that work..
Open the sketchup file in Artlantis, export it to obj and import from that file into Vue, work perfectly without it being the classic heavy file or misplaced textures.

Who would have thought that Artlantis is the best way to use Vue for sketchup.

regards
nacho

Danble

Bloom Unit. I work at migenius, who created it but I've never had any cause to use anything else.

Krisidious

Vue is my favorite mainly for it's vegetation tools. Nothing is as incredible as building your own custom Eco-system and then seeing it populate or painting with it.

numerobis

@danble said:

Bloom Unit. I work at migenius, who created it but I've never had any cause to use anything else.

olishea

My favourite render engine is Thetwidium.

Rich O Brien

@olishea said:

My favourite render engine is Thetwidium.

Wow, a googlewhack. well done

sonder

Mine is now LumenRT4 Studio. It is by far the fastest with the most accurate lighting and intuitive tools I've tried. Even straight exports without material edit work wonderfully due to it recognizing material names. Animation is incredibly fast with most of my animations at 720P & over 2 minutes long taking less than an hour to render.

dkendig

I vote for the hammer myself

Anyone using the 1.6 beta want to change their answer to this poll? I see a lot of people mentioning bugs we fixed in this beta when talking about why they don't like V-Ray. Also... we're faster now.

Danble

@numerobis said:

@danble said:

Bloom Unit. I work at migenius, who created it but I've never had any cause to use anything else.

I deserve that! But I do think it should at least be on the list.