An exclusive sketchup book ‘SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization’ 2nd edition is just launched

Thomas Bleicher and Robin de Jongh have jointly published the 2nd edition of the exclusive book alias ‘SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization’. The book contains total 448 pages and is written in english language. The book is available in PDF format.

SketchUp is an impressive and outstandingly puissant 3D modeling software recognized globally by numerous architects, visualizers, and drafters. It facilitates to produce animated 3D drawings and naturalistic renderings that simply approximate real-life objects.

With this amalgamation, the sketchup users can get the best-in-class web service within the Trimble Sketchup. The purpose of the application is to provide ability to the users for instantly searching BIMobjects cloud database online and downloading and incorporating the proprietary BIM objects in a SketchUp project.

This book provides a brief debut on SketchUp 2014. This sketchup book will sharpen your skill to start with sketchup 2014 promptly in an efficient manner to present top-notch quality photorealistic or artistic outputs of all the designs. The users will be familiar with how to map about and establish the content of the scenes, apply SketchUp and other professional rendering software for making eye-catching visuals and animations as well as how to insert an aesthetic touch to all the images.

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Rajib dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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New Release of Raylectron version 4

SoftByte Labs, Inc has released a new version of Raylectron alias version 4.xx, much faster and easier to use.

Raylectron already contain just about all the settings to fine tune the output, therefore, no further processing by other software is required.

The material editor is simple, yet powerful. Any materials can produce different effects, such as reflection (like mirror), refraction (like glass), transparency, glossiness, shininess, bump maps, normal maps and background images. Create your own grass & fur. Shadows are not fake or simulated like "Soft shadows". Caustics are also real, not fake or simulated.

Create your own animation which gives you a hands-free tour of a model.

Raylectron utilize all the CPU cores and threads (user selectable) to render as fast as possible and new GPU version available.

Some of the unique features:

• Render OBJ files.
• Ability to create Grass & Fur, such as landscape, hay, carpet, hair, fabric such as sofa, chairs, and so on, any texture with a fur/thread like material.
• Create your own animation.
• Fix Reversed Face Material tool.
• Start/Stop lets you fine-tune your lights/materials and camera position.
• Ability to stop the render, save it, reopen it later and resume the render.
• Rotate model while rendering.
• Rotate, pan, zoom, modify the materials and lights right from Raylectron.
• There are also four 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.
• Save as transparent background so you can use the images on any background you like, including on web sites.
• Support HDR maps and can save the rendered image as an HDR, it can also save in jpg, png and many other formats.
• Instancing of components and groups allow you to duplicate any component or group without increasing the poly count and memory usage.
• It works entirely inside Sketchup, and the rendering process free Sketchup so you can continue working on your model.
• GPU Acceleration
• Plus many more features...

Raylectron v4 is available for free evaluation.

For additional information about Raylectron:

Website: http://raylectron.com/
Trimble Sketchup:http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/raylectron-render
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raylectron

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Published By

Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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