It includes a full-featured material editor and additional high-quality materials can be downloaded from the web. 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 – A Free Rendering Extension/Plugin for SketchUp 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. Look at this post for an overviewI suggest you take a look at the freeware Kerkythea.įor completeness, it should be mentioned that there are also the free renderers with export plugins Indigo and POVRAYbut I currently prefer Kerkythea due to its great user interface, fast and great results as well as multiprocessor support. One feature that is missing in SketchUp, though, is photo-realistic rendering. Evolve Evolve is a high quality 3D Hybrid Modeling and Rendering environment that enables industrial designers to evaluate, research and visualize various designs faster than ever before.Quickly creating 3D-models and doing sketchy renderings is clearly the strength of SketchUp. Thea Render Thea Render comes with high quality materials, resources exclusively for licensed users, integration with various modelers, a robust SDK and advanced features such as Photometric Analysis, Colimo Support and many more.
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Kerkythea is a full staging application for rendering your models. Download here the Material Editor Guide pdf. Kerkythea provides a powerful material editor system that allows great control over the final material. Materials are a very important part of rendering and can make the difference between a photo realistic and an artificial-looking image. If you are new to Kerkythea you are welcome to see the "Getting Started Guide" pdf, which covers the basics that one needs to know to start rendering with Kerkythea.