Free Rendering Materials
Vismats.com offers free.vismat materials for Vray for Sketchup & Rhino. These materials can be used for Vray Rendering Software on two programs, Trimble. Many thanks for the link - they look good, and genuinely useful. If it is of interest I've used these sites among others for many years for free textures: There are some free textures here that are good quality (although the procedural ones are for Cinema 4D): I bought an online texture library from.
I can highly recommend Twilight Render Hobby which is a free plugin and works entirely within sketchup. Have been using Twilight since 2010 and find it really easy to use with a lot of flexibility built in. I believe it is based on Kerkythea which is totally public domaine but is tuned to make it much easier and intuitive to use. There is also a paid for pro version with even greater functionality and extra bells and whistles should you require.
Check out the Twilight Render Forum for some great examples of what can be done. TeddyG: Wondering why Sketch Up doesn’t include a rendering engine w/ it Count me as one who is thankful that SketchUp doesn’t include a rendering engine! One of the things that continues to impress me about SketchUp is that, for the most part, they’ve striven to keep to the basics, which for SketchUp is to be an incredibly powerful surface modeler. At the same time, they allow extensibility through plugins/extensions. In programming terms, reading this forum has led me to understand that rendering is very different from modeling.
Free Rendering Software
Thus, adding rendering to SketchUp would represent both significant investment and, more importantly, a tangent away from their core expertise. I think Trimble (the makers of SketchUp) is wise to leave rendering to others. Partial evidence of this is the wide range of plugins/extensions available through Sketchucation and the 3D Warehouse. As a person trained (long ago) as a programmer, it boggles my mind to consider the software bloat that would be involved if Trimble tried to implement even 10% of the available extensions/plugins as native tools! Free ged classes chicago.