

#SU PODIUM FOR SKETCHUP 2019 UPGRADE#
Podium Browser is now fully included with a Podium V2.6 license - purchasing the upgrade is the most cost-effective way to unlock over 25,000 render-ready furniture components, appliances, materials, and more! SU Podium V2.6 compatible with SketchUp 2017 - 2021.Īdds support for HDR image-based lighting, with almost 40 sky options included! Podium Browser is now fully included with a Podium V2.6 license. SU Podium V2.6 is a photorealistic rendering plug-in for SketchUp developed to turn your SketchUp model into a photo-real image with realistic lighting, material properties, reflection, and refraction. To do any post processing, previously, you needed a good image editor like Photoshop.Easy to learn, beautiful, photorealistic rendering. For example, editing the light levels, brightness, cropping the image, adding a background to alpha transparent image, create Depth of Field areas, adding an overlay and blending are some of PIE's features. Post processing means making changes to the bitmap image created by Podium.

It was created so that Podium users can do quick post processing or image editing of Podium rendered images. This is a powerful feature that lets you hide the light source but creates an evenly distributed light and is extremely useful for creating behind camera "fill lights" to fine tune your lighting. Hidden LEM lights will still cast light into your SketchUp scene, but any surface with a Hidden LEM material applied will be invisible in the rendered image. LEMs can also be made invisible by checking the hidden LEM option in the material editor. LEM materials can be applied to any face in your SkethUp model an used as a visible illumination source (like a lightbulb, neon sign, etc.) Unlike Omni and Spotlights, Podium LEM materials use actual SketchUp geometry to cast illumination into a SketchUp scene. You can see the light group in SketchUp's outliner. The omni light/ point light is a SketchUp group called a light group.

To insert an omni light or point light, click on the point light icon in the tool bar and drag an omni light into the model. Omni light or Point light is an artificial light source which emits light uniformly in all directions, similar to a light bulb. When sun light is on, you can use Podium's Physical Sky to create a realistic sky background with atmospheric qualities such as turbidity and realistic tonemapping. The sun's brightness, exposure and shadow direction can easily be controlled by changing SketchUp's time of day and year in the Shadows dialog. Sun Light is a directional light source that uses SketchUp's sky and shadow settings (SketchUp shadows must be turned on).Sky Light is an ambient light source applied evenly to the entire SketchUp background sky.
#SU PODIUM FOR SKETCHUP 2019 WINDOWS#
These are both "exterior" lights but will have a lot of effect on interior renderings if you are using windows and openings to the exterior. SU Podium has two types of natural lights. as well as the included Podium Browser content. You can use standard SketchUp materials, or higher resolution textures from a variety of libraries. When rendered these properties bring the model to life by reflecting light and the environment. Reflections, refractions, bump maps and other advanced properties can be applied to a specific SketchUp materials. SU Podium can turn these plain textures into realistic materials, quickly and intuitively via the Podium material user interface.

An essential part of creating SketchUp models is applying textures to faces.
