@ driven

Visualizer looks quick, simple and...now free. Will check LightUp too, and thanks for the clear and concise advice, much appreciated.

Also, I sounds like we have to buy SU Pro - if nothing else, on moral grounds. But at least, it now seems like SU Pro + a plugin / render package is the way to go.

Thanks for your help.

@driven said:

on a mac...
Visualizer for quick and simple...
LightUp for well priced in SU render package...

Buy SU pro, as soon as you are charging for it...
you could test your renders by reworking old projects in SU and ask the former clients if they like the improvements...

john

@ HornOxx

@hornoxx said:

Please don´t be scared My recommendation for you is a combination of 2 tools: Shaderlight and Twilight Render. Shaderlight is extremely simple to use (just out of the box) and provides good renderings in a pretty fast render time.

Thanks for this explanation. I have checked Shaderlight and it is definitely on the shortlist.

I think i need to have a quick SU grounding training before I make a move, as going from our antiquated "all in one app" to SU plus plugins is a sharp learning curve.

Thanks for taking the time to answer us.

@Frederik

Fab renders! Thanks for your answer. In a way, these are probably to high quality for us to use simply to "give our clients and idea of what it would look like". But good to know this kind of quality is achievable for a relatively low investment in terms of software. Thanks for your input.

Hello All

We are a small interior design company. Until recently, we were using a software made by a small British developper (Microspot Interiors). It combined both the design and the rendering engine.

We are now playing with SU Make 2015. The lead designer (my wife) picked up the basics of SU in no time at all, but we miss the rendering engine.

1/ We would like to be able to provide basic renderings to our clients.

We are looking for a plug-in /rendering engine that would be user friendly but still powerful enough to tweak textures, light bounce, etc. In your opinion, is Maxwell the way to go?
Do we need to buy SU Pro right away?

2/ When we need high quality renderings, we send our SU models to 3D rendering artists. The idea for us is to be able to send them our models in a format they can directly use to do the rendering. Again: is SU + Maxwell the right setup to do this?

Any suggestions are welcome. We can't splash out to much on a rendering plugin with too sharp a learning curve, so we are looking for affordable + easy to use.

Thanks for your input.

Jean-Louis