I’m hoping that if the collective Forum has any energy for this, we can end up with a realitively current feature list of rendering programs available for SketchUp.The Enscape SketchUp render plugin provides you with the ability to render, walkthrough, flythrough, create animations, and virtually experience your model in 3D with incredible simplicity. I offer my summary out to you here as a work in progress, please edit, modify, and rearrange to improve the accuracy and overall utility, and then reissue so that we can all benefit.Īs has been noted by several contributors, the SU Essentials web site has a lot of rendering reviews (not all of which I have reviewed), and I found the web site helpful as well.Īs noted in the list, I’m still a bit unclear about which category (operating inside or outside of SketchUp) some of the listings belong in … any correction help would be most appreciated!Īnd then, at the end of the list, I ran out of gas and have not categorized the last five (I think more obscure) items … There are still a lot of (noted) blanks and question marks in the list, but I’ve made some progress. I have tried to compile the responses into as comprehensive a list as I can manage. Many thanks to all of you for your responses! I must say that I didn’t realize just how many SU friendly rendering programs are out there! It’s been about six days since I posted my (perhaps overly ambitious) inquiry about the “10 best” rendering programs for SketchUp. And get hold of a demo copy/free version of Twinmotion - 2019 was offered free, and 2020 is currently 50% off so it’s a good deal for a realtime engine WITH inbuilt materials and 3d assets. It will at least give you something to base decisions on.
#Sketchup rendering for mac
My advice is to try a Demo of Indigo because it is available for Mac and it runs using OpenCL which Radeon cards are built around (as opposed to Cuda which is nvidia-specific). I’ve tried CPU, CPU+GPU and GPU-only on a range of different systems including some very high end rendering farms, and the GPU-only mode is so much faster! Decent renders in 2 minutes flat and it makes rendering of fly-through animations much more acheivable.
One thing I would recommend is a GPU-Based renderer. Personally I would recommend Twinmotion for basic image quality, features and price. If you want realtime rendering then Twinmotion, Enscape and Lumion If you want the most built-in features with the best SketchUp interface, then possibly Vray. If you want fast near-realtime rendering and are prepared to accept lower image quality then may be Twilight, Podium could work as they have good SketchUp interfaces. Thea looks pretty good but I haven’t tried it. Indigo is the cheaper of the bunch (RT version) and is very fast and simple to use, however the SketchUp interface isn’t very intuitive or feature-rich. If your purpose is “photorealism” (and that means fully ray-traced with atmospherics, complex shaders and materials, and a real physics-based illumination model) then your options include: Maxwell, Vray, Thea, Indigo, Arnold, Octane, etc. There a wide range of rendering engines, which all suit different purposes.
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