Podium - Photo Realistic Rendering for SketchUp

21 July 2007 | Category: Reviews

Podium - Photo Realistic Rendering for SketchUp

I was searching for some free SketchUp Plugins and stumble upon this rendering plugin for SketchUp - Podium, according to them, Podium works entirely inside SketchUp and uses SketchUp’s surfaces, textures, views, background color and shadows, it employs Global Illumination (GI) and Ray tracing to create photo-realistic images.

I’ve yet to give it a try, don’t plan to anyway, but with a price tag of USD180, Podium is sort of affordable compare with other rendering engines such as Vray, Artlantis and 3D Studio Max.

If you’re a SketchUp user and really wants a good photo realistic rendering software, my advice is go for Vray or Maxwell Render.

I’ve just created a new poll, do drop your votes.

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2 Comments

  1. 3d tutorial
    on March 19th, 2008
    1

    That’s looking nice, also if you can provide a tutorial to use the podium plugin.

    Thank you

  2. 3d-fan
    on April 15th, 2008
    2

    Try Kerkythea, this is another renderer with a plugin for sketchup. And its free for private and commercial use.

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