Hot summer day - Challenge 2014 - Project

SketchUp's Real-Time Rendering Moment: Lumion View, AI Render, and the End of the Export Workflow

SketchUp 2025–2026 has added native PBR materials, AI image generation, and real-time rendering plugins like Lumion View, letting archviz artists produce photorealistic images without leaving the viewport. This collapses the traditional design-to-render pipeline.

Hot summer day - Challenge 2014

A few updates before my final entry. Credits: Used softwares: - Sketchup 8 - Blender 2.70a - Octane render 2.06 - Photoshop CC 2014 Textures: - Concrete slabs: part of Tile 069 of Arroway's Tile volume one Pre-made modells: - Plant factory PLE - free tree modell Concrete material: - Octane live db My final entry: 128671 And two details: 128669 128670 A few more technical details about the final render: The original picture size was 4800x2695px I used PMC kernel, and Octane's daylight environment for the lighting. Maybe it is also interesting that the specular depth was set to 24 because of the many-many reflections and refraction. The rendering took about 6 hours on my quite old gear (1×GTX 590 + 1×GTX 580 + 1×GTX 670).

Posted on 04.10.2014