It is a photo-realistic, real-time, animations plug-in for SketchUp that allows for quick photo-real visualization and the production of video animations.
It uses ray tracing and ambient occlusion to create photo-real renderings and animations.
It works directly with SU Podium V2 and/or Podium Browser. It reads Podium's reflections, blurred reflections, refractions, bump maps, omni lights, LEM lights and translates SketchUp sun position to create it's own sun and sky light.
It is CPU based, not GPU based.
It renders in near real-time and renders all of Podium's material properties and artificial lights.
It renders the thousands of components and materials from Podium Browser.
It is a great tool to preview SU Podium rendering and/ or Podium Browser components inside SketchUp.
It creates keyframe animations for video productiion and also can record your camera navigation.
It will import SketchUp scenes to create keyframe animations automatically.
It will create animations directly from SU Animate camera paths as well.
It will export to video formats such as .mp4, .mov, .m2t and .avi.
