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Preset Page

The SU Podium V2 presets have been crafted for certain rendering environments and are available from the Options menu in SU Podium V2. Presets were created to control hidden variables that effect things like Physical Sky turbidity, sun brightness and contrast, ray trace bounces, amount of ambient light, tone mapping variables, anti-aliasing, etc.

There are three categories of presets; default, exterior and interior. Default is a general purpose preset not calibrated for anything specific. Interior and exterior s presets types are especially made to give the best results for their specific interior or exterior SketchUp environments. These two presets types have several variation to give different quality and speed results. Specifically _preview is the lowest quality but fastest, standard, high and QMC (highest quality). Use the _standard preset if you have any questions. If you have a combination exterior and interior scene, you may need to experiment with the best preset.

The presets stored in the Preset folder in the SU Podium V2 folder.

Note - when you install a new version of SU Podium V2, the preset folder is not replaced. Existing presets from previous versions will remain in the preset folder. If you want to decrease the number of presets, go to the SU_Podium_V2-->Preset folder and delete presets you no longer want. Optionally, uninstall SU Podium and then reinstall. (Mac users - you will need to Move to Trash to uninstall. Check the Help/ Install section.)

Presets can be opened and edited with a text editor if you know what you are doing. If you want to venture into creating your own presets, please read the PDF document that describes all the Podium rendering hidden variables at the bottom of this page.

This page offers non-standard presets that Cadalog, Inc. and other customers have developed as an alternative to the presets that come installed in SU Podium V2. Download these .pps files to your:

    c:\program files (x86)\google\google sketchup 8\plugins\SU_Podium_V2\presets\
    or for Mac users - MacIntosh HD\Library\Application Support\Google SketchUp 8\SketchUp\Plugins\SU_Podium_V2\presets\

Non Standard SU Podium V2 presets:

Important Note: Presets have a file extension of .pps which your browser may mistake as a Power Point file. Right click on the Download here link and use Save Link As...

    1.0.3 Exterior
    This is a good exterior preset to give you more control of sun intensity and exposure sliders.
    Download here
    1.0 Exterior Night
    Obviously created for night exteriors
    Download here
    1.0.5_interior_default_no AA
    There is a zip file with a .pps file in it and jus the .pps file.
    This interior preset has no anti-aliasing (resampling) and will result in very quick rendering that only has raytracing and GI.    		 Download Here

    Download the Zipped version

    New 1.0.5 Presets are now standard with SU Podium V2.7 and above. It's recommended that you install the most current version. However, if you prefer an earlier version of V2, the below 1.0.5 presets will produce high quality images.

    1.0.5 Exterior high
    Download here
    1.0.3 Exterior Preview
    Download here
    1.0.5 Interior Standard
    		 Download Here
    1.0.5 Interior High
    Download here
    1.0.5 Interior Preview
    Download here

Download the Preset PDF documentation here - Click Here

Check the SU Podium User forum in the Preset thread for continued customized presets and discussion. Click Here for the Preset Thread in the Forum.