Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Chapter 5 Rendering in SketchUp
Figure 5.12: Software example: Twilight user interface
Figure 5.13: Software example: Shaderlight user interface
Set up Kerkythea and Create a Rendering
At this point you have read enough about the theory behind rendering and available software.
It is time to actually get to work. To keep things simple (and cheap, because all the software
we use in this short tutorial is free), I will use this chapter to give you a brief introduction to
setting up the freely available rendering engine Kerkythea and doing some test renderings
with it. This rendering software is available for both the Windows and Mac platforms. As
you saw earlier, many other rendering software packages exist—all with their own strengths
and weaknesses.
Please note: After this tutorial, instructions will be kept as software-independent as possible
so that you can use them with whatever rendering software you end up getting.
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