Render application Home pages

[Gaieus]

Below you can find a list to all sites/Home pages of all render applications which are used in this Gallery. If you see a site/Home page which is not included, please report it to us.

The following URL's have been collected for your convenience by Juju and RonS. Thanks so much guys!

Render applications Home pages

3D Studio Max

This is the 3D Studio Max homepage.

This is an Autodesk product.

Accurender

This is the Accurender homepage.

ArchiCAD

This is the ArchiCAD homepage.

Requires an exporter to read SketchUp model geometry, etc.

Artlantis

This is the Artlantis homepage.

AFAIK it requires and exproter to read the SketchUp model geometry, etc.

Blender

Homepage for Blender.

Brighter3D

Homepage for Brighter3D

Carrara

Thanks to "Jan Vdb" for providing the additional links, apparently there are three versions, see below:

- Carrara (Win / Mac)
- Carrara Pro (Win / Mac)
- Carrara 3D Basics (Win / Mac)

Cheetah

This is the Cheetah 3D homepage.

It's for Apple Macintosh only AFAIK.

Cinema 4D

This is the Cinema 4D homepage.

Collada

This seems to be the Collada homepage.

SketchUp 6 has a built-in exporter for Collada.

Fryrender

This is the homepage of Fryrender.

"Physically-based render engine". Only MS XP (32 bit and 64 bit) and MS Vista compatible at this time. 795 Euro.

iClone

This seems to be the iClone homepage.

IDX Renditioner

http://www.idx-design.com

Indigo

This is the Indigo Render homepage.

Require a SketchUp to Indigo exporter plugin (available form the website) to work, also look at materials etc. though.

IRender

This is the IRender homepage.

Kerkythea

This is the Kerkythea homepage.

Requires a SketchUp to Kerkythea exporter to work (available from their downloads section), also look into materials etc. though.

LightUp

This is the LightUp homepage.

It works within SU

Lightwave

This is the Lightwave homepage.

LuxRender

This is the LuxRender homepage.

"A new, open-source, free software rendering system for physically correct, unbiased image synthesis..." (at the moment so new they don't even have a members' gallery yet - Gai... )

Maxwell

This is the Maxwell Render homepage.

Live Interior 3D

This is the Live Interior 3D homepage.

Mental Ray

This is the Mental Ray homepage.

Mitsuba

Mitsuba Physically Based Renderer

Modo

This is the Modo homepage.

Octane

http://www.refractivesoftware.com/index.php

Piranesi

This is the Piranesi homepage.

Seems to be available for both Apple Macintosh and PC (Windows) platforms.

Podium

This is the Podium homepage.

This acts as a plugin to SketchUp and works from within SketchUp.

POV-Ray

This is the POV-Ray homepage.

The SketchUp to POV-Ray plugin can be found here, exports SketchUp model to format processed by POV-Ray.

Be sure to look into the lighting and materials.

Revit

This is the Revit homepage.
By Didier Bur: RevitCity.

It is an Autodesk product.

Spirit

This is the Spirit homepage.

Subdo

This is the Subdo homepage.

It can import / open the SketchUp v5 & v6 files, thus no convertions / exports needed.

Sunflow

This is the Sunflow homepage.

Thea

This is the Thea homepage and the Thea Render Forum


trueSpace

This is the trueSpace homepage.

"trueSpace7.6 is a fully-featured 3D authoring package that will let you model, texture, light, animate and render 3D content. As well as traditional images and movies, you can also make 3D content for online shared spaces, and for Virtual Earth."

TurboSketch

This is the TurboSketch hompage.

AFAIK it is available for both Apple Macintosh and PC (Windows) platforms.

Twilight Render

This is the Twilight render homepage. Twilight Render is an easy to learn, fully integrated plugin render environment for SketchUp.

VIZ

This is the VIZ homepage.

It is an Autodesk product.

Vue

This is the Vue homepage.

V-Ray

This is the V-Ray for SketchUp homepage (Thank jenujacob)

Arion
http://www.randomcontrol.com/arion

Bunkspeed Shot
http://www.bunkspeed.com/shot/

Fluid Ray (integrated in SU)
http://www.fluidray.com

Lumion
http://lumion3d.com

ShaderLight (integrated in SU)
http://www.artvps.com/

[Jan Vdb]

Hi, Coen

Carrara
This seems to be the Carrara 3D homepage, correct me if I'm wrong. http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/software/carra%20...%202d7683b9/?

Just info...

As for as i now there are 3 versions of Carrara.

- Carrara 5.1 (Win / Mac)http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/shop/itemdetails/-/?item=4293&cat=331
- Carrara 5.1 Pro (Win / Mac)http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/shop/itemdetails/-/?item=4315&cat=331
- Carrara 3D Basics 2 (Win / Mac)http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/shop/itemdetails/-/?item=4242&cat=331

P: Jan Vdb

[juju]

Jan, thx for the added info. I'll add it to the Carrara section.

I'm locking this topic now, please report additional links as per Coen's link at the top.

[juju]

Updated the list with "Fryrender".

[ilay7k]

if somebody need new free unbiased render(like indigo, maxwell, fry) - check this - http://www.luxrender2.org/
(but it hasn't connection to "skipy" but blender-support is)

[Gaieus]

Updated with LuxRender (thank ilay7k)

[jenujacob]

The Vray website posted here is the online documentation they have for the Vray for 3Dsmax.
Vray for SketchUp can be found at http://www.asgvis.com

[Gaieus]

Thanks Jenu - updated with the info

[osx59]

Hello

And ... FormZ with Sketchup plug-in is good so !: http://www.formz.com
Rendering: 2100 x 1200 in 30 seconds !!! on macbook 2,2 Ghz and 4go mem.
The original size is here : http://3dvs.fr/ricore.jpg

Vincent
(France)

[dmatho]

Please consider Air, http://www.sitexgraphics.com/ , but also this rather comprehensive listing of Rendering tools and engines http://www.pointzero.nl/renderers/

Cheers,

- Diego -

[juju]

Diego, does "AIR" handle SketchUp files natively, or do you need an exporter as with some of the other rendering applications?

[pilou]

Maybe you can try to explore this interesting concept

[dmatho]

Oh Pilou, Mind/Concept-mapping software and presentations are great!

Cheers,

- Diego -

[blair]

Any opinions on the following programs?

TRUESPACE 7.6
http://www.caligari.com/

RENDITIONER

http://www.idx-design.com/IDX/IDXRendit ... fault.aspx

[Chris Fullmer]

I liked the idea of this being locked w/o all the zillions of posts and notices of updates below. If we do lock it again, feel free to delete this post.

Chris

[Gaieus]

Okay, I added trueSpace. IDX Renditioner was already there.

Chis - do you thing this thread should be locked?

[Chris Fullmer]

I though the idea was to have a single post at the top with all renderers. As someone wants to add a new one, it gets PM'ed to a Admin who then adds it to the list. Then there would not be a zillion posts like this underneath. Just a nice clean list. It doesn't have to be that way, its just what I was envisioning based on Coen's original post.

Chris

[Gaieus]

Ah, I see. Well, in any case, the first post is constantly updated (like now I did).

[Blah11]

don't forget hypershot.

[arail]

Yes, don't forget Hypershot.

[madllama]

What is the best render to use in OS X?
Just recently convertet to OS X and don't want to switch over to XP to use V-Ray all the time I want to render something...
So what render is best for me? I am looking for something as good as V-Ray and not to difficult to use.

Thanks in advance for the replies...

[Frederik]

Hei Henrik,

Unfortunately there isn't many render applications available for Mac...
But from the list available for OS X, I obviously would recommend Kerkythea...

[tonyc]

Vray for Sketchup will have the mac version

http://www.vray.com/news/2009/02/vray-f ... announced/

[Frederik]

You should also add the Thea Render homepage and Thea Render Forum...

[Edson]

What is the best render to use in OS X?
Just recently convertet to OS X and don't want to switch over to XP to use V-Ray all the time I want to render something...
So what render is best for me? I am looking for something as good as V-Ray and not to difficult to use.

Thanks in advance for the replies...

i would not venture to state which one is the best (what is best for me is not necessarily best for you), but the following apps definitely run on mac os x:
cheetah
podium
kerkythea
artlantis
lightup
idx renditioner
vray (coming soon)

[Sir]

currently lux render doesnt have an exporter for sketchup

[VolcolUK]

I wouldnt neccessarily say that iClone is a rendering program. Its a 3D animation program, I know because I make props for their movies (with sketchup). Here is one of my own short animations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmAvdIATiE (sketchup model).

Its useful (ish) as a rendering software though the results tend to vary.

[Frederik]

And now you can add Twilight render...

[remus]

Done.

[Pg09]

Never mind, i found the other thread.