hi there, I am new to sketchup. Could someone please help me by suggesting the best and easiest way to go about rendering architectural models in sketchup pro. The best program to download? Helpful tutorials? Many thanks, Lou

I don’t know why Thea render is looking as such a secondary renderer at this post. Want biased render like Vray? Thea can do it with quality and fast! Want Unbiased like Maxwell and Indigo or Octane? Thea Can do it with CPU only TR1/TR2/AMC with extraordinary quality and full caustics calculations…

Omg could I please be the one you share your podium license with? I’ve been trying out the free or demo versions of various renderers and podium seems really nice and simple. I think I could really get used to it.

I would probably wait for a mac version, lars. And to the other cat down bellow; its personal preference. Tried both Thea and Vray, both were slow and expensive (more so at the time of my trial). Now I render an image in mere seconds. Presto simply isn’t fast enough, and its result doesn’t really s…

Well we use Lightup to create realtime flythru’s , its not like Vray, super realism but by god its quick… I consider render times of secs to minutes…with atmospheric results but also can give technical information as lux levels, total insolation etc. Its quirky… sometimes frustrating, and developed…

Visualizer is great for exterior renderings, but I use Kerkythea for interior “shots” because you can apply lighting fixtures.

[image] Listing of available Rendering Extensions for SketchUp Extending SketchUp Rendering inside SketchUp • Allura Render (nVidia GPU) Platform: Windows License: commercial • AmbientOcclusion Platform: Windows & Mac OS License: commercial • ArielVision Platform: W…

I recommande Twinmotion. It’s an architectural rendering tool, easy to use and very user friendly interface. Import from SketchUp is stable too. It’s not free though, but if you are student or teacher, they have free educational version.

Hi Tommy. Thanks for the “thumbs up” on Visualizer. I’m intrigued to try Visualizer myself. Their help page https://getvisualizer.com/blog/where-to-start.html offers a 5-minute, getting-started video that seems to have disappeared. In a classic case of “Where’s my … HERE it is!”, I found the video…

EDIT: oops too late… @August , this is a ping to see if @LesterP has a copy of the video as he’s written a plugin for the plugin… john

[image] August: Thanks for the “thumbs up” on Visualizer. Thank you for the “thanks.” It’s good to see you in the forum again :smiley:

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