Best free render?

[valerostudio]

The best free engine is Kerkythea because it is truly open source and has no limitations. I would recommend playing with Maxwell if you don't need to render high resolution images. Having your engine stay withing SketchUp is very useful and is a time saver.

[notareal]

@valerostudio said:

The best free engine is Kerkythea because it is truly open source and has no limitations. I would recommend playing with Maxwell if you don't need to render high resolution images. Having your engine stay withing SketchUp is very useful and is a time saver.

Have to correct the "open source" part. kerkythea is free, but no open source. But there are some open source renderers (or actually GPL), if really needed; Cycles (Blender), Lux render and Mitsuba are maybe best know. Kerkythea been proven to work, so it still maybe a fine option.

[cymonguk]

What about indigo?

[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

Or does something else get the best results?

Results are very close between all renderers!
Another one for your collection of real free one
NOX

by Gokhanoner

[Rich O Brien]

Blender Cycles...

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/Cycles/Standalone

And soon it will be standalone so you will be able to render to Cycles from SketchUp if someone writes a plugin

[Stinkie]

I'd go for Kerky as well. Free, there's tutorials available (some even explicitly aimed at SU users), and they have ready-made materials to dissect as well.

[leonmetalowiec]

I also prefer Kerkythea

[pilou]

Mitsuba ?

Mitsuba Render free

Plugin by Taka2hata

[vpdp28121976]

For me Kerkethea is Best..... because it so easy and provide better results.

But

I need some experts support for the exterior rendering while i do stone jali and stone art wall, as i belongs to jodhpur where every next home made with stone art .. but kerkethea didn't provide me the depth of that art

[pilou]

The more funny to use!
Real Time SimLab Composer Lite (free : max 1920 * 1080)