I would suggest you to stick with Kerkythea. It's free, it's physical accurate, it supports unbiased rendering methods, it has a great forum to support you, it has a great plugin (SUtoKT by Tomasz Marek)to export directly from Sketchup....Need more?? 
Latest posts made by evos.
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RE: Worth the effort - Rendering?
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RE: Aston martin vantageThanks! 
 I didn't write anything about Vanquish. This is a 1978 Vantage. 
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Aston martin vantageHi, 
 this is a render i made some time ago. All the components were taken from warehouse except ground and walkway.
 Rendered with Kerkythea.
  
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RE: Green Toaster's Car SketchesCome ooooooon, brad! 
 I 've been away for a while, since your topic had 3 pages of replies, now i came back and i see 44 pages!!!!!
 Don't you ever sleep??Just kiddin. you're doing a great job! Keep 'em coming!!  
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RE: Drums on stageThanks for your comments. 
 You're right about the DOF but..i liked the resault.
 Maybe i need to scale down the wood planks a bit?
 They are already about 20cm wide 
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RE: Drums on stageThanks! 
 DOF increases a lot the rendering time (about 22h.)
 but it worth for sure!
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Drums on stageHi everybody! 
 This is my latest project (just for fun).
 Modelled in SU, rendered with Kerkythea.Link for original size render: http://www.badongo.com/pic/1931556