SU Podium can turn these plain textures into 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. Earlier SketchUp version users will need to install SU Podium V2.5, which is backward compatible to SketchUp 2014.

Cross-platform accessibility: SU Podium V2.6 supports Windows or Mac operating systems, with support for SketchUp 2017, 2018, 20.Podium is not a hybrid render-engine for a GPU based solution, we offer ProWalker GPU powered by NVIDIA Iray. Multi-Threading: SU Podium uses multi-threading to take advantage of all your CPU cores and threads.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.The user interface is simply and does not require advanced knowledge of rendering techniques. SU Podium V2.6 employs advanced rendering technology but sticks to it's original intention: To make photo-realistic rendering for SketchUp an easy and rewarding task. SU Podium V2.6 is a photorealistic rendering plug-in for SketchUp developed to turn your SketchUp model into a photo-real image with realistic lighting, material properties, reflection, and refraction.

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