The rendering engine then provides various rendering methods such as ray tracing, photon mapping, path tracing, BiPT, MLT and also presets for clay and ambient occlusion renderings. Kerkythea installs as a separate program and SketchUp models are converted to its XML-based scene description language with a very seamless exporter plug-in (a Ruby-plugin). For completeness, it should be mentioned that there are also the free renderers (with export plugins) Indigo and POVRAY, but I (currently) prefer Kerkythea due to its great user interface, fast and great results as well as multiprocessor support.īy the way: Check out my book, “ Architectural Design with SketchUp: 3D Modeling, Extensions, BIM, Rendering, Making, and Scripting.” In chapter 5, I describe rendering with Kerkythea (and other rendering software) in more detail. Look at this post for an overview), I suggest you take a look at the freeware Kerkythea. Although there are some commercial rendering solutions available for SketchUp (namely Twilight, Podium, VRay for SketchUp, LightUp, IDX Renditioner, and more – all of these integrate nicely into SketchUp and offer “one-click” rendering. You can add high-quality rendering to the free SketchUp software even if you don’t have any of the full-featured commercial rendering programs like 3ds max, VRay, maxwell etc. But don’t let that stop you… Kitchen rendering One feature that is missing in SketchUp, though, is photo-realistic rendering. Most of its modeling feature set is even available in the free version and with downloadable Extensions, anything is possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quickly creating 3D-models and doing sketchy renderings is clearly the strength of SketchUp.
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