IRender nXt Reference Manual
The complete reference manual for IRender nXt, a plugin for Rendering SketchUp models.
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Getting Started

• Getting Started with IRender nxt
• Download and Installation
• Create and Render a Basic Room
• Rendering Overview
• Basic Lighting and Reflection
• Purchase at any time

Tutorials and Videos

Interactive Tutorials

This video will guide you through your first rendering - and setting reflections on SketchUp materials to create even better rendering - in a interactive mode - showing you just which buttons to click and waiting for you to click them - in the video, in SketchUp, or both.

• Interactive Reflections Tutorial

Getting Started Tutorials

• First Exterior Rendering
• Simple Rendering of an Object

Videos

• First Exterior Rendering
• Glass Transparency
• IRender nXt Features
• More Videos

Additional Tutorials

• Interior Pool Tutorial
• IRender nXt Features
• Advanced IRender nXt Features
• Interior Lighting Basics
• Light Balancer
• Rendering with Edge Lines
• Reflection Settings
• Glass Transparency
• Multipass Rendering
• How to choose a renderer

The Basics

• Rendering
• Lighting Presets
• Create Material
• Rendering Complete
• Brightness Slider
• Adjustments and Filters

Toolbar in SketchUp

• About IRender nXt
• Start Rendering
• Image Effects
• Render Setup Dialog
• Lights, Mirrors and Components
• Create Mirror
• Material Wizard
• Material and Plant Libraries
• Background Wizard
• Trees and Plants
• Sample Models
• Animation
• RPC Objects
• Help and Documentation

IRender Batch Toolbar Functions

• Statistics
• Image Filters
• Adjustments and Filters
• Brightness Slider
• Save and Copy Rendered Image
• Zoom All
• Change View
• Render Material Dialog - Change Materials before restarting the renderer.
• Lighting Channels

Options Wizard

• Setup Options
• Rendering Setup
• Lighting Setup
• HDRi Sky Setup
• Background Setup
• Special Setup
• Image Setup
• More Setup
• Render 2

Materials

• Edit Material
• Select Material
• Place Material
• Material Wizard
• Advanced Material Editor
• Material Styles
• Glow
• Convert Material

Textures

• Solid Materials
• Arroway Textures
• Water Materials
• Texture Mapping
• Texture Resolution

Bump Maps

• Automatic Bump Maps
• Auto Bump
• Standard Bump Maps
• Procedural Bump Maps
• Bump Maps - Additional Information

Transparency

• Transparency
• Translucency
• Transparent Settings
• Refraction
• Stained Glass
• Daylight Portal
• Thin - Thick Glass

Reflection

• Material Settings - Reflection
• Reflection
• Reflection Reference
• Reflection Guidelines
• Fresnel Reflection
• Glossy Reflection
• Metallic Reflection
• Specular Reflection
• Window Reflections

Lighting

• Lighting Defaults
• Lighting Channels
• Ambient Light
• Studio Quality Rendering
• Highlighting
• Intensity Override
• Camera Light
• Cove Lighting
• Light Setup

Sun and sky

• Sun
• Sun Settings
• Shadows
• Soft Shadows
• Daylight Portal
• HDRi Skies
• Additional HDRi Skies
• High Dynamic Lighting

Artificial Lights

• Aim Lamp
• Beam and Field Angles
• Create Lamp or Light Fixture
• Edit Lamp
• Glow
• Indirect Lighting
• Lumens vs Watts
• Self Glow
• Visible Light Paths

Entourage

• IRender nXt Plants
• Create Plant
• Tree Maker
• IRender nXt Plants
• IRender Ready Content
• Ground Cover
• RPC Objects
• Installing RPC - ArchVision Content Manager
• ArchVision

• Additional Functions

Advanced Techniques

• Alpha Images
• Antialiasing
• Edge Highlighting
• Auto Image
• Background Image
• Batch Rendering
• Batch Tutorial
• Caustics
• Clay Rendering
• Depth of Field
• Edge Highlighting
• Fog
• Foreground Images
• Edge Highlighting
• Ground Plane
• Haze
• Image Editor
• Image Functions
• Invisible
• Object Properties
• No Light Source Reflections
• Render Selection
• Saving Defaults
• Section Planes
• White Walls

Animation and Views

• View Wizard
• Animation
• Panoramic Views
• Animation - Tutorial

Appendix

• SketchUp Versions
• Error Messages
• Support Dialog