RENDERING PROGRAMS FOR SKETCHUP MAC FOR MAC

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.

RENDERING PROGRAMS FOR SKETCHUP MAC 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.

Rendering programs for sketchup mac