First you will need to establish the degree of realism required. Do you spend more time and effort trying to improve your CA output or do you spend time and effort plus potentially additional cost to adopt a third party rendering engine and if so, which one do you choose. Like many CA users you are now faced with the predicament of deciding the best course of action. To start with I would just like to first say that your design work is definitely deserving of improved presentation, those renderings are just not doing justice to your work. I'm wanting to export my projects to a better program for more realistic renders You can take a Chief file into the program with either DAE or 3ds. This program is that it is able to use HDRI's to light a scene (unlike say, Twinmotion), and you can use one of its many plugin translators to bring Chiefĭirectly into the program without going through Sketchup-which has its own learning curve to consider.Īrtlantis is an old well respected program.
If I were on a PC I would look at D5.įor either Mac or PC, a really good little program is Simlab Composer. On a PC you have more options, particularly if you have a fast Nvidia graphic card. Model I have been able to find out of the box (example attached). I currently use Indigo Renderer in Sketchup for my Chief files as to my mind it gives me the best possible light-the most authentic sky and sun The output of all of these is really good. Renderers-V-ray, Thea, of course, but less expensive ones like Twilight Render and SU Podium. If you are on a Mac, best would be to purchase a Sketchup subscription and then learn any number of quality I have done chief renders and watched all the training videos, I want to up my game. I am looking to enhance my photos (specifically exterior) for Real Estate purposes. The Lumion option that's $1,499.00 does not seem worth it. Also i know Lumion is really well but I don't want to spend thousands of dollars.
I have used Sketch up before but didn't think it was worth buying so I'm wondering, do I need to buy a third software in order to use Thea? I've read of chief users using Thea rendering so i know its compatible but do they import their chief model into another software before exporting to Thea? If anyone has any suggestions for other Rendering Programs, I'm open. I don't know which on to download sense I don't have licenses with either of those programs. It asks me what i would like to download either "Thea for Sketch up" or "Thea for Rhino". I'm wanting to export my projects to a better program for more realistic renders, I'm researching different software and am going to try out (for free) the Thea Render.