Rendering in SketchUp

Shaderlight Rendering: Clicking this button will launch the render of the current 
view.
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Shaderlight Animation: This option will launch a menu for creating animated 
sequences from preexisting SketchUp scenes.
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Material Editor: This option opens a menu for editing textures and materials so they 
will render.
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Shaderlight Light Tool: This option opens a menu to place and set artificial lights.
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Shaderlight Settings: This option opens a robust menu where you can set render pre-
sets, resolution, lighting, and backgrounds.

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Secondary Menu
Shaderlight includes additional options that are not located in the main menu. Go to Window 
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Plugins and hover over Shaderlight to reveal the same menu options with one additional 
feature: ReplaceMe Creator, which is discussed in Chapter 30 (Fig. 25.6). The secondary menu 
includes the option to activate Shaderlight if you purchase a license.
Special Features
Shaderlight includes some extra features you’ll enjoy using. Chapter 30 describes how to use 
some of them.
Dynamic and Batch rendering
Shaderlight allows you to adjust camera views, lighting, exposure, and texture values while 
an image is being rendered. You can save your work anytime during the rendering process. 
Fig. 25.5: 
The Shaderlight main menu
Fig. 25.6: 
The Shaderlight sec-
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You can even use SketchUp scenes to move the camera around and allow each scene to render. 
When you also use the Animation menu, you can render multiple images in one sitting (or 
even while you sleep). This is a very powerful and effective tool for creating a series of images 
from one model that depicts many views.
animation
The Animation tool allows you to harness SketchUp’s ability to animate scenes to create still 
(batch rendering) or moving media.