If you do a lot of rendering in Google’s Sketchup, you might want to check out SU Podium. Just released as a 1.7 Beta, it’s a photorealistic rendering plugin for Sketchup that can generating high-quality renderings of your scenes. It supports reflections and textures, and the results are far improved over the default settings in SketchUp.
Licenses are available for prices ranging from $80 (Educational discount) to $800 (Commercial licenses).
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