Rendering a SU drawing.

[Nick W]

Having tried Podium and KT in the last couple of days and nights :roll: (and you're a terriable man Dave, for making me do it, oh yes you are, and oh yes you did, don't you try and deny it now), I think that Podium has the better promise for the future in that it is more aligned with the KISS principles of SU, though I can well see that KT is more powerful/flexible.

I just like being able to define the camera point, lights, materials all within SU and then get the rendering done from within SU, so even if Podium does end up costing, I will probably be going with it.

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Who? Me? Oh no, not me. I'd never do anything like that to you , Nick. ou must be thinking of someone else. :twisted: :lol:

I agree with you. I think for the ease of use, Podium is going to be the renderer of choice for SketchUp. I still like some of the things I can do with KT that won't be available in Podium but most of the time I'll prefer to bang out the Podium render instead.

As for lighting, I was making light emitting materials--basically surfaces drawn in SU rather than adding lights in KT. It feels more like setting up softboxes and other studio lighting as I would do if I were actually making photographs in a studio. Easier to think about that way.

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Added a wee bit more light and did a little bit of post Podium processing.

 

[Steve Maskery]

This is all very impressive guys. I've only had one quick go with it and I didn't like what came out, but I think that may be something to do with the textures I had.

So Dave, what's going to be the subject of your next eagerly awaited tutorial? I'd sure benefit from something about rendering, how to set up cameras, lighting etc. And I bet I'm not alone.

Cheers
Steve

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Steve, I was just waiting for you to come up with a suggestion.

Actually, I've been busy doing preventive maintenance on 32 anesthesia machines and haven't had much time for anything else.

I could do a short tutorial on how I set up a SketchUp model for rendering but I'm certainly no expoert on the rendering end. I think the tutorial on the armoire which I'm sure most folks thought would never end, covered so much stuff, I'm not really sure what's left.

While I'm working up the rendering tutorial, why don't you all chat amongst yourselves? Come up with some more ideas for me.

 

[Nick W]

As rendered by Podium

As built

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Cool, Nick!.

Is that with the newest version of Podium? Did you adjust the quality sliders up or is that the fastest render setting?

 

[Nick W]

I just did a download, but I didn't see any sliders. Do I need to look elsewhere for the beta?

 

[Steve Maskery]

Nick that is absolutely fantastic. Both the SU and the real thing. Excellent. Tell me, how did you join the curved drawer sides to the drawer front?

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Nick, Click on the little arrow in the right corner of the dialog box and then choose Settings.

 

[Nick W]

Steve,

I very carefully shaped the leading edges of the sides to fit the back of the front :? and then inserted two Miller dowels

Dave,

I don't got no Settings option there.

 

[Steve Maskery]

I ... inserted two Miller dowels

Neil will be delighted!

TVM for the info.

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Nick, the current beta version is 1.1. It should look like this:

And when you click on Settings you get a new box with a couple of sliders, thusly:

 

[Nick W]

OK Dave, so I don't have the beta. I have Preview version 1.0. Where do I get the beta from?

 

[SketchUp Guru]

They are both beta versions. Go to the suplugins.com site and scroll down a bit. There's a link spread across the page with a date of Dec 10th as the last day. Click on that link.

 

[Nick W]

Thanks Dave, got it now. Shame the link on the download page doesn't get you 1.1.