Expert Renderings

Lighting Presets

The Presets lets you choose predefined settings for the most common lighting situations.

There are a lot of settings to create special lighting effects. The presets make it easier to get a good rendering without having to make all the setting manually.

Standard Presets

• Studio or High Dynamic for subtle shadows for exterior scenes.
• Exterior - for exterior scenes with sun and sky.
• Interior with Sun - Interior scenes with lighting through doors and windows.
• Interior no Sun - Interior scenes with no external lighting.
• HDRi Sky - Exterior scene with a sky full of clouds.
• See: Lighting Presets

Transparency

SketchUp transparency selected for entire model

IRender nXt automatically uses SketchUp transparency settings. It includes refraction, reflection and illumination through the transparent surface.

You can edit the transparency settings with a slider-bar, change the Index of Refraction , or add other special effects such as Translucency and Caustics

• Video: Transparency Video
• See: Transparency

Background Image

Use images for background

Background Images are special images which you can place behind your model.

• Simple Background - you can use any image as a simple background for skies or other pruposes
• HDRi Skies - for full illumination and reflection of a background image, you will need to use an HDRi Sky
• Image Layer Wizard - backgrounds can easily be positioned using the Image Layer Wizard.
• See: HDRi Skies
• Video: Background Wizard Video
• See: Background Image

High Resolution

Image courtesy Mike Halls

With IRender nXt you can render a high-quality, high-resolution image suitable for creating posters, etc.

Very high resolutions will require more RAM, and a 64-bit processor.

• See: High Resolution