SU Podium v1.7.2 for Google SketchUp

SU Podium v1.7.2 for Google SketchUp | 1,13 Mb

With SU Podium you without much effort and a long study of multiple settings can create photorealistic rendering Google SketchUp models. Podium works directly in the interface of Google SketchUp and uses SketchUp textures, backgrounds, groups and shadow.

He found using Google SketchUp and SU Podium, a photo-realistic rendering plug-in, to be good visualization tools for studying viewpoints, texture, and lighting before painting. The example below is of the winning SU Podium image and how it came to fruition. The first image shows a model used prior to rendering in SU Podium. You can see this interior design has a lot of high resolution textures. Many of the textures were created by Nomer using a digital camera and shooting typical building scenes from Hanoi. Some of the components in the scene came from the Google 3D Warehouse as well.

The second image shows the rendering that was created by Podium. A background image is imported into the SketchUp model for the view from the door. The main source of light is Podium’s sunlight which is controlled by SketchUp’s shadow settings. Podium’s soft shadows are used in this rendering. Because Podium supports ray tracing and global illumination, faces that are not exposed to direct sunlight reflect indirect light, making the interior look realistic.

Also, large openings in the SketchUp model (not visible in the image) in the roof and back wall are used to create ambient light from Podium’s sky light. Some textures were applied to Podium’s bump maps.

Using SketchUp and Podium for oil painting studies, as opposed to architectural design concepts and presentations, may not be the most common use of these tools, but for Nomer, they worked quite well. His work shows that 3D design and photo-realistic rendering have numerous, creative applications.


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