Free Rendering Software For Sketchup
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By combining the rendering speed and quality of Indigo with a high quality plugin for SketchUp, you can create great images so good that your friends and clients won't be able to tell if it's a photo or computer generated.
Key Features
Photorealism, supercharged
Indigo's easy to use material models make developing realistic materials a breeze. Add displacement maps to bring your surfaces to life with incredible detail.Combined with unbiased, physically based GPU and CPU rendering and realistic camera apertures, you're ensured stunning image quality with low render times.
Scattering
Use the built-in Indigo Scattering to quickly and efficiently make detailed vegetation. Choose from multiple included presets, or make your own.Indigo for Sketchup also supports the popular plugin Skatter, which lets you use brushes and advanced parameters for scattering your plants and other geometry, all while using very little memory.
Light Layers
Transform your lighting and make day/night versions without re-rendering.Material Database
The built in browser lets you download, use and edit over 600 realistic materialsCreative lighting
Area and mesh lights, Sun & Sky, HDRI and IES light sources at your disposal.Section planes
Use section planes to get an inside view of buildings and constructions.The great lighting system of Indigo does the magic more or less automatically when you use a physically correct environmentDavid Gudelius
Converting an existing scene to be 'Indigo ready' is a matter of minutes.Arthur Liebnau
Indigo Renderer for Windows
Download Indigo RendererIncludes Indigo for SketchUp.
Indigo RT for Windows
Download Indigo RTIncludes Indigo for SketchUp.
For Apple OS X
RBZ Plugin for OSXPlease install Indigo Renderer/RT first.
Documentation
Online Indigo for SketchUp ManualHTML version.
Community
SketchUp ForumDiscuss Indigo for SketchUp with others.