You can use standard SketchUp materials as well higher resolution textures from a variety of libraries as well as Podium Browser content. 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 very realistic materials, quickly and intuitively via the Podium material user interface. Realistic Materials: An essential part of creating SketchUp models is applying textures to faces. Multi-Threading: SU Podium uses multi-threading of your CPU so much of the rendering process will use all your processors (Dual/ Quad/ Eight). Although the user does not have to be aware of what technology is being used, it's important to note that you can obtain high quality images with realistic reflection and lighting, quickly. Raytracing and Global Illumination: SU Podium uses a photon mapping algorithm that provides accurate raytracing and global illumination that yields beautiful, photo-realistic images. If you are using SketchUp 8, please use V2 Plus. V2.5 Plus supports SketchUp 2015 ad 2014 Win/ Mac, 64/ 32 bit. For a summary of V2 Plus features in addition to the new items in V2.5 Plus, please read here. All other SU Podium V2 Plus features are retained. Section Tools has been included in the SketchUp 2015 version. V2.5 Plus has a better Tools, Analyse method, helping you to quickly identify problems. Also, the problems with materials that has names like "h" or "m" are gone. tif files and has much fewer "unknown symbol" messages. V2.5 Plus solves many of the texture mapping distortion in a rendered image such as distorted textures on flipped components. What is processing scenes and why should I care? Please read here. In larger models, you will notice even more speed gains. V2.5 Plus's major new feature is the result of months of R&D to employ a C++ method of processing scenes which make the overall Podium processing scenes in SketchUp up to ten times faster. SU Podium is intuitive to SketchUp users, easy to grasp for beginners, and the simple interface and versatile presets cut the learning curve to minutes instead of months.
SU Podium runs completely inside SketchUp from start to finish, and makes use of the SketchUp features that you're already familiar with to achieve impressive results. SU Podium exists so that anyone can create beautiful, photo-realistic renders from their SketchUp models without the pain and frustration of learning a complex program.
SU Podium 2.5.002 Plus for SketchUp 2015 | MacOSX | 48.7 MB