We are so glad to announce that D5 Render 2.2 is released, and this time, we do a lot of works to improve the workflow of SketchUp and D5 Render. Our aim is to be the best rendering engine for SU, hope you like it.
Kepp skp models’ original coordinates in D5 Render
Open or import skp2022 model files directly in D5 Render
Optimize the sync logic between SketchUp and D5, to achieve the best realtime rendering experience (Live sync)
People talk about it a lot on YouTube, they recommend it under Lumion, Twinmotion videos. I’m thinking about downloading it myself since I’ve seen some nice renderings of it https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDHysmj0sz0gQXvjjyUHGWg This one looks cool
D5 tops it for me, even the library is big, and its growing, it’s even surpassing Lumion 12 for assets, and yes Twinmotion has a big library from Quixel but its mainly materials, not as many models for architectural rendering.
Besides, D5 is not expensive as others, and free assets are powerful enough. Some of my friends just use the free version. I think they do not do a lot promotion job yet, but they are heading towards the right direction. ( I am a beta tester since 1 year ago)
You could see, every category has plenty of free assets
When I last compared it to Twinmotion, Indigo, Podium, VRay, the only one that was more expensive than D5 was Twinmotion but, even then, not if you were able to take advantage of a 50% discount on offer at the time. Given that VRay seems to be the one I have seen most often referred to, that seems to be a tad cheaper than D5. However, it’s an arms race out there and seems to be a healthily competitive market.
You need a RTX GPU for D5 but it’s great. It is simple to use and very nice. I have a Titan X with 12Gb and it used to be supported, that’s not the case anymore.
With an RTX GPU, there are a lot of options but D5 seems one of the strongest.
D5 Render is amazing.
It only took 2 mins to output a 4K image, and 20 mins to output a 10s video with 4k res.
And it’s Free to use. Just download it from the official site. Crazy.
You are D5 Render official? Glad to see you here and the efforts that you are trying to let more people know D5, I hope you can keep posting updates here because SketchUp community is really nice and suitable for you guys as well.
I believe D5 can be a strong competitor (maybe you already are), after comparing several renderers with RTX acceleration, D5 is the best for me. Here is a video I saw in our chat group, to show you how to import a skp model in D5 then render a job in a few hours. Easy and efficient, good job!
