Hi Bob and Krisidious,

Yes with the sun and sky currently being the only light sources, interiors can be pretty dark.
For now you can open Window/EntityInfo for an object or group and toggle off the "Cast Shadows" option.

Will

Our goal is to make realistic image creation instantly available to Sketchup users.

Actually there are 2 lights, the sun and the sky.
Also in the current version there are two materials.
One is a none shiny material.
The other is a shiny "glass" which the artist indicates by reducing opacity below 100.

We have received many requests from customers for more features and the team is working hard to add them. The challenge is to keep it easy to use.

Hopefully we have succeeded in making the Visualizer interface so intuitive that you can be productive within minutes of installing the extension.

Thanks for the positive comparison considering Maxwell is over 40 times the purchase price.

Will

Im one of the software engineers on the Visualizer team.
John has been in touch with us and we are investigating. For immediate support users should go to the link below.
https://getvisualizer.com/contact

Will

Thanks for the reply Tig.
I don't know what code the menu item runs. I would like to simulate, with a ruby command, that I had clicked on a menu item in this pre-installed custom extension.
Am I missing something in your suggestion?

Ive read most of the posts describing the built in items available with send_action but how do I do this for a new custom menu item.
Say I installed a custom plugin called NewExtension and one of the menu items is Doit.
What I want is something like
Sketchup.send_action "Plugins/NewExtension/Doit:"

Is that possible? Or is there some other way to execute this custom menu item within a ruby script?