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Raylectron
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Version
2.09
Raylectron is an affordable, easy, fast and a
powerful Sketchup render plugin. It does not need any
editing by other graphic software (such as Photoshop)
to produce photorealistic renders. Depending on the
scene being rendered, one can use Raytrace with true
shadows, Path tracing with or without direct
illumination and Photon mapping. Each creating a
unique effect. There is also 4 types of light source.
The sun, the sky, environment maps and any materials
set as a light source (emitter) with settings for the
power and coverage angle. Any materials can produce
different effects, such as reflection (like mirror),
refraction (like glass), transparency, glossiness,
shininess, bump maps, normal maps and background
images. Caustics are also real, not fake or
simulated. Raylectron utilize all the CPU cores and
threads (user selectable) to render as fast as
possible. It is also possible to install Raylectron
on remote computers (even on the Internet) and use
them as slaves. Slaves do not send any data back as
it renders, instead, the data is sent when you
request to update the View port on the master.
Raylectron support HDR maps and can save the rendered
image as an HDR to further process it using an image
editor such as Photoshop, you can also save in jpg,
png and many other formats. Raylectron already
contain just about all the settings you need to fine
tune the output, therefore, no further processing by
other software is required. The rendering process
happens outside of Sketchup so that you can continue
working on your model while the render is going. You
can also stop the render, save it, reopen it later
and resume the render. You can rotate, pan, zoom and
modify your materials and lights right from the
Raylectron viewer. Features, can render Stereo
Vision, render OBJ files, create true shadow and
caustics. No need to remove walls to see the interior
render, simply use the X-Ray vision. Many more
features not listed here.
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