Podium - Photo Realistic Rendering for SketchUp
4 Comments | July 21st, 2007

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, [...]



Vray Rendering
No Comments | May 25th, 2007

Another Vray rendering, I’ve been toying around with Vray for hours when I should be doing my assignments, the official tutorial seems to be very informative. I notice that the user interface is very much the same with 3Dmax, tons of buttons but the end results is way much better than artlantis.



Vray
1 Comment | May 24th, 2007

First attempt at rendering a 3D with Vray, not impressive at all, then again a journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.




     

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