I currently use TWILIGHT RENDER V2 on Mac Sonoma, but now get frequent crashes. Is there another program that gives at least as good rendering as TR that I can use on my Mac?
Enscape is popular and works on Mac.
Hi Dave! Would you say as good or better finished rendering as TR?
I think it depends a great deal on how you set things up. You can try it out and see what you think. Get it from the Extension Warehouse.
I tend to use Vray because it is included with my subscription but in reality, with SketchUp 2025’s built in capabilities, I caan often manage without using a renderer at all for what I need.
My portfolio I used to get my current job, everything modelled in SU and rendered with Enscape
on a mac? and which version Sketchup did you use?
Story I didn’t see that this was Mac related. Everything I’ve done is on Windows but Enscape on Mac seems parallel to its windows counterpart. As already mentioned you can get a time limited demo.
SketchUp 22-24, I’m currently using 25 (on Windows still) with Enscape 4.11
Enscape gives a lot better results than Twilight, the problem is that it doesn’t run on Intel Macs with AMD graphics, it runs exclusively on M series chips. You can still use VRay on Intel Macs. There’s not even comparison between VRay and twilight, VRay is one of the industry standards rendering softwares, twilight was mainly for hobbyists.
If you don’t want to upgrade your machine, you’ll run out of options pretty soon, most of the softwares have already migrated to ARM architecture to be able to run on Mac, and as soon as Apple stop giving support to every Intel Mac, Roseta 2 is not going to be supported so there are no reasons to develop software for old Mac’s.
Thanks Paul. Guess I’ll need to upgrade my Mac in order to use enscape now.
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Not for enscape, yes for vray.
Francisco
It’s probably worth mentioning that v-ray and Enscape are professional pieces of software and they cost more per year than SketchUp does. I know many went for twilight because of its cost.
Yeah, I’m looking at Ray now since that’s my only option with my old Mac
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Your computer might be somewhat low-end but Twinmotion is free if your annual turnaround is less than $1M. It doesn’t have a SketchUp extension but it reads SketchUp files. It is somewhat comparable with Enscape (realtime, based on a game engine).
There is an sketchup extension, the datasmith exporter that includes live sync.
To be able to use new features like Lumen, it’s required to have an M series chip, and honestly, Twinmotion without Lumen delivers very bad results.
I haven’t played with Twinmotion for a long time but I seem to remember from this forum that the datasmith exporter is old and has compatibility problems with the latest versions of SketchUp and/or Twinmotion. Unless it has been updated within the last month or so.
It didn’t have support for sketchup 2025, but it has now.
thanks. gonna give vray a try
thanks. gonna try vray