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SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization

You're reading from   SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization Create stunning photorealistic and artistic visuals of your SketchUp models

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783558414
Length 448 pages
Edition Edition
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SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Quick Start Tutorial 2. Collecting a Toolset FREE CHAPTER 3. Composing the Scene 4. Modeling for Visualization 5. Applying Textures and Materials for Photorealistic Rendering 6. Entourage the SketchUp Way 7. Non-photoreal Visuals with SketchUp 8. Photorealistic Rendering 9. Postproduction in GIMP 10. Animations 11. Presenting Visuals in LayOut 12. Interactive Visualization Choosing a Rendering Software Index

Step 5 – Inserting extra entourage


More and more 3D content is now being produced or converted into the .skp format. So, you might already have downloaded and inserted everything you need for your scene directly in SketchUp. However, sometimes, you want to insert your 3D entourage models only into the rendering application and not into SketchUp, especially if you are dealing with high-poly models.

The Thea Browser provides a feature that allows you to add high-poly 3D content from your Thea library into a SketchUp scene without using up resources. To follow these steps, you need some 3D objects installed in your Thea library. You can get some free sample content from http://www.thearender.com/cms/index.php/resources/free-samples.html.

  1. Open the Thea Browser by navigating to Thea Render | Thea Browser.

  2. A file browser will open in the Thea data folder. Navigate to Thea folders | Models | Free Samples | Sample Xfrog Library (or another location with your 3D library files). You can see the open...

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