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ArielVision for SketchUp is a plugin that creates photorealistic renderings of your models, from right inside SketchUp. It's made for designers who want to create beautifully rendered images without the hassle of complex settings.
ArielVision for SketchUp has the power of an advanced rendering engine, but with a refined interface that focuses on just the essentials. It's everything you need and nothing you don't. Now producing great renderings can be even easier than creating the SketchUp model in the first place.
How it works
ArielVision gets its rendering information from SketchUp materials. colors, transparency and textures are set normally in SketchUp and used for rendering. Reflection and Glow settings are assigned to materials by right clicking on any surface which already contains the material, and setting the properties. (You do not have to drill into groups and components. ArielVision will automatically find the proper material for you.
ArielVision can render the scene using as many rendering passes as desired. (Rendering passes use additional lighting samples from the sun, sky, and lights to make smoother shadows and more realistic effects. Initially, while you are learning, a limit of 40 passes is used. Later you can increase the number of passes as desired.
You can render at any resolution or render quality desired. Higher resolutions and higher render quality takes more time per pass and more time for the complete rendering. Initially, ArielVision is set to use a medium resolution so you can preview your model quickly and increase the resolution later if desired.
ArielVision defines material properties and rendering settings inside of SketchUp and saves them in you SketchUp model. One button click is all that is necessary to create and view the rendering.
There are additional settings for HDRi skies (360 degree, images which enhanced illunination and brightness information stored in the image), and for other background images.
Key Features
- One-click rendering: great results from pre-defined settings.
- Seamless integration with SketchUp 2019 and earlier versions. (Windows only)
- Uses SketchUp Material and textures automatically.
- Top Quality PhotoRealistic Rendering Engine.
- Indirect Lighting for subtle, realistic shadows.
- Auto Bump Mapping for SketchUp Textures.
- High Quality Reflections – mirror-like, or blurry.
- Refraction for thick glass and transparent objects.
- Light Wizard to create many standard lights and lamps.
- Ceiling Lights, Spot lights, etc.
- Uses SketchUp Sun, Sky, and background colors.
- Self glow – for special items such as monitors or lighted signs.
- Laptop seat – second license for use on your laptop.
- Unlimited resolution. (very large resolution requires more RAM in CPU)
- Automatic use of multi-processor and multi-core CPUs.
- Renders in 64-bit mode on 64-bit processors.
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Antialiasing - High quality images |
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Auto Reflection - Automatic reflection for metal, plastic, tile and wood. |
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Automatic Bump Maps - 3D lighting effects from 2D surfaces. |
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Background Image - Place image behind rendered geometry. |
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Remote Rendering - Render in a separate process so you can continue to use SketchUp. |
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Foreground Image - Place image or watermark in front of rendered geometry. |
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Fully integrated into SketchUp - All Rendering settings saved with SketchUp model. |
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HDRi Skies - Lighting, reflections or visibility from special image files. |
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High Resolution images - Increased image size for high-quality images.. |
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Indirect Lighting - Improved renderings with effects of reflected light. |
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IRender Ready Content - Preconfigured components in 3D Warehouse. |
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Lamps and Light Fixtures - Premade components for point, spot and ceiling lights. |
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Lighting Presets - Quick settings for typical environments. |
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Reflections and Mirrors - Define reflection for any surface. |
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Render directly from SketchUp - One click rendering. |
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Resume Rendering - Add additional passes after rendering is complete. |
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RpTreeMaker - Fractal 3D trees. |
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Save Rendered Image Wizard - Makes it easy to save your rendered images. |
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SketchUp Components - Render groups and components. |
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SketchUp Materials - Textures, transparency and colors from SketchUp materials. |
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Sun and Shadows - Use SketchUp sun position and settings. |
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Transparency - Use SketchUp transparency settings. |
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Two Point Perspective - Keep vertical lines parallel while panning the view. |
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Visible Light Paths - Spot Lights which shine as if in a haze. |
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Advanced Reflection Properties - Glossy, Fresnel, etc |
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Animation - Fully rendered movies. |
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Arroway Textures - Fully rendered movies. |
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nXtRender Batch - Render later, or from a remote machine. |
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Caustics - Realistic transparency for glass. |
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Clay Rendering - Create monochrome renderings of model. |
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Daylight Portals - fast processing of exterior lighting. |
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Depth of Field - Focus and Blur. |
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Edge Highlighting - Enhance detail by rendering SketchUp edges. |
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Ground Cover - Fractal, 3D plants for ground cover |
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Laptop Seat - Free second seat for your laptop. |
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Lighting Channels - Adjust intensity of lights after rendering. |
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Material Channels - Adjust color or materials after rendering. |
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Material Wizard - Advanced features - Multiple Properties per material. |
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Material Wizard - Define properties for materials. |
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nXt Material Library - Predefined materials. |
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nXt Plant Library - More than 500 predefined plants. |
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Object Properties - Diffuse lighting, Daylight, Caustics. |
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Procedural Bump Maps - marble, wrinkle, bumps, etc. |
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Real Time Haze - Post processing for Haze and Fog effects. |
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Rendering Editor - Set options and edit materials from rendering window. |
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RPC Objects - High quality 3D objects. |
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Section Planes - ability to section off part of the model. |
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Self Glow - Illuminate a material without making it a light |
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Watermarks - Add logos, foreground images or textured masks to the rendering. |
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Specs
Installation Requirements
In order to work properly, your copy of ArielVision for SketchUp requires SketchUp.