SU Podium Plugin of the SketchUp Software
A high-end, biased ray tracing engine has been used by the SU Podium plugin of the SketchUp software, which helps to create photo-realistic images for the SketchUp models of the users. The SU Podium plugin of the SketchUp software is available in Japanese and English languages. This SketchUp plugin is compatible with Windows and Mac. The SU Podium plugin is compatible with different SketchUp versions including SketchUp 2020, SketchUp 2021, SketchUp 2022, SketchUp 2023, and SketchUp 2024.
A high-end, biased raytracing engine has been combined along with the HDRI/ IBL sky and a physical sky system, which helps to make the SketchUp rendering more enjoyable and straightforward. The SU Podium plugin helps to simplify the rendering processes, which enables the users to get the photorealistic images. The SU Podium plugin helps to turn the SketchUp models into the photorealistic images along with design materials, lighting and reflections. This plugin is the good options for those users who wants to cover both indoor and outdoor renderings along with the magnificent lighting effects, if natural or artificial. A photon-mapping algorithm has been used by this SketchUp plugin, which uses multithreading to get the benefits of the CPU. Though, the SU Podium plugin of the SketchUp software does not offer hybrid rendering.
Learn about SketchUp Podium Browser
The SketchUp Podium Browser is the premium content library, along with more than 12,000 render-ready SketchUp design components. The SketchUp Podium Browser enable the users to access the light fixtures, plants, furnishings and materials, which can be downloaded by the users directly into their SketchUp scenes. Users can simply click on a thumbnail in the SketchUp Podium Browser, drop the design content into their SketchUp model and thus can render, along with the SU Podium. The design models of the SketchUp Podium Browser are configured with the Podium material properties, which helps to get photo-realistic renderings.
Features of the SU Podium plugin
Full integration features
The SU Podium plugin is able to work with different SketchUp settings including geometry, sun, camera, textures, colors and others.
Material features
Users are able to select and edit design materials in the SketchUp Pro, along with different options including refraction, reflection, bump, and light intensity.
Light source features
The SU Podium plugin of the SketchUp software helps to provide access to the various lighting options including spotlights, point lights and sunlight.
Panoramas features
With the help of the Panoramas feature of the SU Podium plugin, users are able to create 360-degree panoramas of the 3D design models, which helps to get interactive client presentations. The Panorama of this SketchUp plugin has been exported as HTML code, which allows the users to embed it on a web page.
Real-time rendering features
PodiumxRT extension is available for the SketchUp software and the SU Podium. This is the real-time path tracing which helps to support all SU Podium material properties. This extension also helps to bring realistic refractions, reflections, bump maps, depth of field, cloud skies, lighting, and HDRI into the SketchUp designs.
Browsing features
The SU Podium library contains additional 3D light fixtures, high-resolution materials and design objects including cars, furniture, plants, trees, and people. Users can drag these design objects from the web server into their SketchUp models. These design objects are render ready, which allows the users to decorate their scenes easily within a short time.
System requirements for supporting the SU Podium plugin
➢ In the case of the user using SketchUp 2017, 2018, 2019, 2019.3, or 2020, they require Windows 7, 8, 10 for using the SU Podium plugin.
➢ The SU Podium plugin also requires Mac Catalina, High Sierra or Mojave. In the case of using the earlier Mac versions, the users should have to use SU Podium V2.5.
➢ In the case of the user who has SketchUp 2019, they have to update the SketchUp 2019 to SketchUp 2019.3 for the work of the SU Podium plugin.
➢ In the case of the users using SketchUp 2017 Mac versions, they have to use SU Podium V2.5.
Downloading SU Podium plugin
For downloading the SU Podium V2.6, users have to install SU Podium V2.6 RBZ installer from the SketchUp Extension Manager. Some of the browser setting leads to the browser attempting to open the .rbz file after the downloading process.
In this conext, users can change their browser settings, as a result, the .rbz file does not download the .zipped .rbz file or is not automatically opened. These .RBZ installers have been highly recommended in the case of installing the SU Podium plugin via SketchUp Extension Manager.
To learn more, watch the following video tutorial.
Video Source: SUplugins
Download SU Podium SketchUp Plugin
The Executable (.exe/pkg) installers are recommended for the school along with multiple user accounts per computer. In this case, the user has to close the SketchUp before running and double-click on the file for starting the installation procedure.
