How to choose a renderer

Dennis has created this non-partial video to give you some tips on how to choose a rendering engine for SketchUp:

Take a look on YouTube

If you want to try the model with a renderer, download it from the 3D Warehouse

Client Animation

One of our clients posted this animation, created with IRender nXt, to YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1JNv0rp7I

Take a look

Stained Glass

This is an image, rendered with IRender nXt from a SketchUp model posted to SketchUcation by WIP.



I played with it for a day or so, (it was lots of fun).

There are lots of things to play with when making a nice image from stained glass - like the amount of transparency, translucency, refraction, and daylight processing for the glass. And the lighting outside.

Rather than direct sun, I chose a sunset sky HDRi for the sky. It gives an interesting, different effect.

See the full thread on SketchUcation

See more about Stained Glass with Irender nXt.

RPS 3D PDF review

This site has posted a review of RPS 3D PDF:

Software Informer

We always appreciate people posting reviews of our products.

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With the Render Plus Systems RPS 3D PDF Exporter software you can convert SketchUp files into 3D PDF files. There are many advantages in converting SketchUp files. If these documents are in 3D PDF files, then they can easily be sent to clients or others in an email or published and posted on a website.

Having 3D models on your website is good for marketing reasons, and that is now easily done with the Render Plus Systems RPS 3D PDF Exporter program. The models can also be interactive and these interactive models can be sent to anyone you want to in a PDF file.

The program lets you and other users work with the converted 3D models. All recipients of a 3D model can zoom in on points, pan and spin it so that they can examine it in detail. There is no way for the recipients to change the 3D PDF documents, though.

With the Render Plus Systems RPS 3D PDF Exporter you can also create U3D files from your SketchUp documents. These are then used together with Adobe Acrobat and even more complex models can be made for web pages or whatever other purpose.

More about RPS 3D PDF

Background visibility and reflection

Next weeks version of IRender nXt will have some improvements in the use of background images. See: Background Images

(This jungle background is reflected in the dome, and seen through transparent glass.