If I'm not mistaken once you've imported the texture into your SU file you can right click on that texture in your Materials panel and theres a Save As option or something like that. Click that and you can browse through your folders until you find SU's Materials folder and drop it in the appropriate one, or make a new one. -Brodie

The .igs file should be in your skindigo, i think it's called default.igs. Its worth noting that this will be deleted when you start a different render, though, so it's better to go plugins->skindigo->export scene if you plan on resuming the render.

During the early days of experiments with split processors, there were ones that were single core but when it came to apps that could use multiple cores, this single core could work in "hyperthreading" (i.e. like nowadays multiple core) mode. I have a 3.8 GHz processor in my laptop and it can do that (so for rendering I can use it as a dual core). Probably the ideal machine for SU. True that together with the adapter it's about 9 kgs / 18 lbs and though it has two batteries, when unplugged, it will run out of charge within about 30-40 minutes (well, an old one anyway). Still, at least portable (with a wheelbarrow). Unfortunately this kind of development proved to be a dead-end.

@londonpieman said: did you find a fix for this problem? I removed Indigo and now have 2 pop ups every time I open sketchup, really annoying! Which version did you have installed? How did you remove it?

As xrok said, you just let it go until your happy with it. Depending on your computer and the scene this can take anything from 30 mins to a few days. If youre using indigo/skindigo 1.0.9 you will lose any progress once you have stopped the render. If your using indigo/skindigo 1.1.16 then you can resume the render from the .igs file (the indigo scene file.) If you head over to the indigo forum whaat has posted a very good tutorial for skindigo 1.0.9, it should be enough to get you started

Well, Remus went into the "practical" part of it. In "theory", a PR (and use this for "photo realisctic" rendering since a straight SU oputput is "rendering" as well - just not PR) so a PR renderer "shoots" photons that bounce from the surfaces and according to the capabilities of the rendering engine, different "further" features (such as reflection, refraction, bumpiness etc.) can be assigned to the materials so they look more realistic. Also, there are more light sources than rthe sole Sun (hm... could even be a good pun) and these lights all contribute to the final render by "shooting" those photons. Without going into more details (like bounced photons bounce further or not and such), this is the basis of a PR renderer. On the contrary, SU doesn't do all this. There is the sun (or no sun) and there is the sunshine vs. shadow. On top of all, an annoying "shadow bug" contributes to this limited choice (i.e. if you have sun/shadows on, there are problems sometimes). Still don't underestimate a native SU output because it can be really cool and combining it with some post-process work, really stunning results can be achieved. It's juswt a matter of "fashion" which taste; PR or NPR (i.e. "non" PR) is more popular at a time.

newbuilder, maybe you can make us a squirrel skin'n tutorial in sketchup.LOL but seriously podium seems very good and alot faster than indigo, but indigo's free and if you want to do interiors specially just lighted from windows there's really no substitute for indigo. so i say get podium if you want, but add indigo to your collection of tools as well, it won't cost you and you won't ever regret it. also take my advise and try the lightup demo this might be what you're looking for as well, its very unique.