Best Rendering Engine Stage Design

I have been using Shaderlight for set design, and find that it works fairly well. You can place lights on your lighting gantry and direct them towards a spot on the stage. Then you can change light type, spread, colour, and intensity in a dialogue box within sketchup. There is also a mechanism for fine tuning individual reflecting surface colour and texture, from rough to glossy.

I have not tried any of the others. There may be better ones out there, but the cost and performance of Shaderlight has been acceptable. There is a free trial available for low resolution renders.

Attached is a preliminary HD render I did for a stage set for Silver Linings. Render time with AMD R9 380 4gb graphics card was about 5 minutes.

Philip

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