nXtRender

nXtRender is a low-cost renderer for Google SketchUp which uses the nXt Rendering Engine, sun, sky, shadows, lights, transparency and reflection to create Photorealistic renderings from SketchUp models at an affordable price.

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AccuRender nXt is an all-new renderer designed to make it easy to create quality rendering without having to worry about lighting and other complicated settings.

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nXtRender is a special, low-end in integration of the nXt engine into SketchUp. Although nXtRender contains a simple dialog so that the user can add lights and reflections. Many good renderings can be created with a single button click and no changes to the model at all.

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nXtRender 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. nXtRender will automatically find the proper material for you.

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nXtRender 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.

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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, nXtRender is set to use a medium resolution so you can preview your model quickly and increase the resolution later if desired.

Material Settings

Textures, colors and transparency settings are automatically read from the SketchUp model. One additional setting is added to the material in SketchUp to create more realistic renderings - reflections for mirrors, metals, or reflective surfaces.

Lights

For Interior Scenes, and night time scenes it is easy to add lights.

Indirect Lighting

Indirect Lighting refers to the IRender nXt feature of processing light reflected from mirrors and other surfaces. This creates a realistic lighting effect which improves with each successive rendering pass. Indirect should be used with most interiors scenes to soften the lighting effects.

Self Glow

Self Glow illuminates a surface as if it had light shining on it, without actually making it a light. For objects which you want to appear bright, but which don't need to illuminate other objects, this is much faster than making lights out of them.

Fully Integrated into SketchUp

All renderings settings - reflection, lights, etc. - are stored in you SketchUp model and the rendering is created with a single click on the nXtRender Toolbar - which starts the rendering. You can return to the model and re-render it without having to define materials and lights or make make other renderings settings - everything is remembered and stored in the model.

Saving Image Formats

Save rendered images in these formats:

• JPEG - with and without comments.
• PNG files - compressed and no loss of quality.
• Transparent PNG files - compressed and no loss of quality