New! SU Podium V2 is avaialablehere.

Render All V2 Beta

    Render All Beta for Podium V2 has a dialog that allows you to choose the scenes to be rendered and highlight which scenes you want to render.
    Render All is a feature that allows you to render all the SketchUp scenes in a model in sequence. When invoked, Render All, renders each scene and saves the image in the SU Podium image save folder. This enables you to batch render several scenes in sequence or even create photo-realistic animation especially if you have created the SketchUp scenes using SU Animate
    For SU Podium V2, Render All is still in beta. It must be downloaded from the Registered User or Download page of this web site. There is an install .exe file for Windows and an install .zip package file for the Mac.
    Render All V2 will render object movement from scene to scene so it can be used for object motion type animations. Render All V2 has a convenient user interface that allows you to pick the scenes you want to render. First click None to turn off all the Scenes in the Render All dialog box. Select the scene from the Render All UI and hold the shift key down and select the final scene in the sequence. This works just like SketchUp's Scene Manager.
    Render All saves each rendered scene's image to a designated folder that you have chosen in Podium V2 Options dialog box. When it is complete, you can take all the images that were rendered and use Windows or Mac programs like Movie Maker or iMovie to create a video animation. The idea is that each scene in SketchUp is like a frame in a movie. When each scene is rendered with Render All, each JPG or PNG image can be used as a frame. When "stitched" together with Windows Live Movie Maker or Mac's iMovie, a video animation is created.

    Render All will use the settings in your current Options dialog box such as Preset, Image Size, Save location, and all the Environment settings. It's a good idea to render one or two scenes before committing to the Render All process. Once you start the Render All process, it is not easy to stop Podium from rendering the list of scenes, especially on the Mac.

    Render All is in beta. There are some bugs and problems that this web page will go over. However, you can get some good photo-realistic animation results such as the below videos. The photo-realistic quality if Podium V2 quality. Podium V2's Global Illumination is 2nd to none. However, Render All takes patient to achieve even modestly successful object animations. If you are only interested in walk-thru type animations and are a Windows user, please consider SU Walk or PodiumWalker as a much easier alternative. SU Walk is available now. Podium Walker will be in beta and also being ported to the Mac.

    Mac version of RenderAll V2- please note: There is a bug in SketchUp which effects RenderAll that may infuriate Mac customers. What happens is SketchUp will hang up (stop paging) on a scene in your animation. But RenderAll will continue to force Podium to render which results in one scene getting rendered over and over. You may find your self having Force Quit Podium's OOPR and SketchUp and restarting RenderAll at the scene that SketchUp stopped paging. However, with the new user interface, you can easily highlight the scenes you want to render. So starting over from a specific scene is easy. First click None to turn off all the Scenes in the Render All dialog box. Then click the scene you want to start rendering from. Hold the shift key and click on the scene that will be your last scene. This action will highlight all the scenes that you want to render.
    This video was made from a SketchUp model created by Kumise Landscape Design. It was rendered by Cadalog, Inc. using SU Podium V2. The animation was created using SU Animate V4. Then with SU Podium V2 and RenderAll V2 Beta 100 image frames were created. These were then created into a movie using Windows Live Movie Maker.
    This video was made from a SketchUp model created by Nicolas Harvey, SU Podium V2 tech support. It was rendered using SU Podium V2. The animation was created using SU Animate V4. Then with SU Podium V2 and RenderAll V2 Beta 100 image frames were created. These were then created into a movie using Windows Live Movie Maker. The flickering is a result of the shadows and global illumination in SU Podium V2. There is less flickering if shadows are turned off.
    A variation of the first video but with sound and different reflection settings.
    Using SU Animate to create the SketchUp scene animations
    Please visit the SU Animate web site to learn how to create scene based SketchUp animations. SU Animate is a SketchUp plug-in that provides a very easy way to make walk-thru, timeline, spiral or object motion animations in SketchUp. The final step of SU Animate is to create SketchUp scenes so that SketchUp can run the animation.
    One very important item to note when you use SU Animate for object motion animations. In the above example of a car driving through a Japanese town, the scenes were created by SU Animate's Path Animation. This method of object animations will result in a SketchUp model that is several times larger than the original SketchUp model because the animated object is copied to all the scenes. Then layers are turned off and on for each scene. When you use RenderAll on a model with this type of animation, be aware that the model is much larger than it original was. Possible two or three times larger. This can take hours to complete the Render All process depending on the number of scenes and the complexity of the object motion animation.
    Windows - Stop running Script error
    With very large models that have hundreds of thousands of faces or more, you will most likely run into a Windows Stop running Script prompt.
    You must respond No to this prompt for Render All to continue. So if you plan to leaver your Render All running all night while you go home, you may find this Windows prompt on your computer when you come back to the office in the morning. Be aware of this. It may mean for large models with hundreds of scenes, you may have to be monitoring it's progress and click No on this dialog box periodical to have Render All continue. We are investigating the cause of the problem.