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Fast
With SU Podium you can quickly turn your SketchUp scenes into a photorealistic rendering. Because it runs inside SketchUp Pro, it makes use of various parameters from your model, so you do not need to set this up separately first.
Easy
Because SU Podium uses the features of the SketchUp model, you do not really have to set that much. If you also use the materials and objects from the Podium Browser (render ready library for SU Podium), you really only need to press 'render' for a nice rendering!
Interactive
With SU Podium you can share your scenes with your customers in different ways. In addition to generating photo-realistic images, you can also create interactive 360-degree panoramas of your 3D models, so that your customer can look around virtually!
Functions
SU Podium is equipped with the following functionalities to offer you simple, but high-quality rendering.
Fully Integrated SU Podium uses the setting from SketchUp Pro, like geometry, camera, sun, colors, textures, etcetera. |
Materials In Sketchup Pro you can select a texture which you'd like to edit. The best way is to pick it out of SketchUp's Material browser or with the i-dropper tool. Once you have selected a texture, you can edit your material with reflections, refractions, bump and light power. |
Light Properties Besides the Light Emitting Materials (see material properties), SU Podium offers you lighting options like omni lights, spot lights and sky light. |
Browser Library with render-ready 3D light fixtures, objects (cars, furnitures, plants, trees, people and more) and high resolution textures, which can be downloaded from a web server directly into your SketchUp model simply by selecting and dropping items from the Podium Browser directly into your SketchUp model. |
Panoramas Podium Panoramas is a tool to create 360-degree panoramas from 3D models, so they could be presented to customers in an interactive way. The panorama will be exported as a HTML code, so it can be presented on a website. |
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System Requirements
Software:
- Windows 7 tot 10 - 64 Bit
- SketchUp 2019 and later
System Requirements:
- Intel Dual Core or higher
- 8 GB RAM
- Video card 2+ GB 100% OpenGL*
- 3-button mouse with scroll function
Video card
* If you are looking for a new system or upgrade, please pay extra attention to the video card. We do recommend video cards with an Nvidia RTX chip. These cards support OpenGL very well and have qualitative drivers.
Software:
- macOS 10.14 - 11+
- SketchUp 2019 and later
System Requirements:
- Intel Dual Core or higher
Please note: SU Podium is not yet compatible with the Apple M1 processor! - 8 GB RAM
- Video card 2+ GB 100% OpenGL*
- 3-button mouse with scroll function
Video card
* If you are looking for a new system or upgrade, please pay extra attention to the video card. For Apple we recommend video cards compatible with a recent version of OpenGL. Integrated chip sets are not supported.
At this moment, there's no Linux version of SU Podium available
Resellers
You can buy SU Podium through one of our dedicated resellers:
SU Podium History
- Improved Generate Script
Podium's generate script tool can now generate a .SCRIPT file that can be opened later on in OOPR. So, now you can change scripts between computers. - Defringe feature in PIE
The Podium Image Editor now has a defringe feature to clean up the edges of images rendered with a transparent alpha channel. - HDR support
Podium Image Editor now supports HDR file format. - Panorama Server
A new medium to store and share your panoramas created in SU Podium. You can upload your panoramic render directly from Podium Image Editor. - Preset Compare page
An interactive preset comparison page that will be accessible from the options dialog. Very helpful to see presets work in SU Podium. - Unknown Symbol message fixed
The unexplained "unknown symbol" message that produced black images or images with camera view facing in the wrong direction, has been fixed. - Podium Light System problem fixed
The problem with editing values for point ligths and spot lights has been fixed.
Resources
Video's, manuals, tutorials and more. Everything you need to get you started with SU Podium.
SU PODIUM ADD-ONS
Get more out of SU Podium with these add-ons.
Podium Browser
Podium Browser is a SketchUp Extension with extra 3D light fixtures, 2D face-me plants, 3D plants and high-resolution materials, which you can drag directly from a web server into your SketchUp model. These objects and materials are already 'render-ready' for SU Podium, allowing you to dress up your scene quickly and easily. The Podium Browser also has a Paid Content section, with thousands of additional light fittings, plants, furniture and materials. Look in the above table 'Prices' for the most recent price of the Paid Content of the Podium Browser.
Podium Server
Podium Server is a standalone application that resembles the SU Podiums Render Manager, but does not require installation of SketchUp. It can read in and render the .script batches from SU Podium. The ideal way to put multiple scenes from a single scene (eg by GenerateAll) or to place renders from different workstations in 1 queue and render them in a batch. Look in the above table 'Prices' for the most recent price of Podium Server.
ProWalker GPU / Podium Walker
ProWalker GPU and Podium Walker Standard are photo-realistic visualization plug-ins for SketchUp that enable the user to quickly and easily create high-quality images and animations from SketchUp. (Pro)Walker supports all SU Podium material properties, Browser objects and lighting. ProWalker GPU is only available for Windows PC's with a powerful hardware configuration (see system requirements below). For Mac and less powerful PC's, we offer Podium Walker Standard.
SU PODIUM VIDEO'S
The latest SU Podium video tutorials to get you started.
360-Degrees Panorama
Vertical Composition
Generate Script
More Info?
Would you like more information about SU Podium?
Please contact us at:
Phone +31 344 577 884
E-mail info@design8.eu