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SketchUpвЂ™s time of day slider is a secondary control panelВ for Visualizer. On my Macbook Pro, IвЂ™ve found that most images are done in two to three minutes. Visualizer will notify you when the image is fully baked. For the highest quality images, itвЂ™s best to lock an image and let Visualizer decide when your image is ready. ItвЂ™s also easy to customize directories from there, so people like me can easily clutter up their desktops.ДЇeeling frisky? Play around with Visualizer's auto-focus and exposure settingsДЄ few other tips IвЂ™ve picked up on in my adventures with Visualizer:Дefinitely use the image lock tool. Side note:В Generally, I have no clue where files get saved to on my computer, but right next to VisualizerвЂ™s camera icon is a quick link to the folder where my images live. A simple click on the camera icon captures whateverвЂ™s on your screen and exports to JPG or PNG (with an option for transparent background). And it turns out, thatвЂ™s pretty much how Visualizer works.

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(If you happen to be interested in whatвЂ™s happening under VisualizerвЂ™s hood, check out this interesting postВ from their parent company, Imagination Technologies).Д¬hatting with James and Suguru from Visualizer at 3D Basecamp, I got the sense that they were inspired by the camera app on smartphones (something almost everyone already knows how to use). These guys are pretty much obsessed with making Visualizer as simple as possible, and I found that effort coming through while using it. I canвЂ™t pretend to fully understand how VisualizerвЂ™s ray tracing technology works, but I can vouch for the nerdy brilliance of the Visualizer team. Visualizer can pin to the top of your desktop, so you can neatly preview your image while composing it in SketchUp. I often choose to minimize Visualizer after locking the image for processing (more on that in a bit). Ultimately, I settled on the upper right hand of my screen. ItвЂ™s tricky at first to figure out the best place to situate the window relative to your SketchUp model so that it doesnвЂ™t block your workspace. The Visualizer window scales to any size and can quickly match SketchUpвЂ™s viewport pixel-for-pixel. So whether youвЂ™re exporting images directly or planning to work up a high quality render in an entirely different (and probably more expensive) application, Visualizer is definitely useful for composing the SketchUp scenes you want to use and spinning up an instant photorealistic preview that may inform choices you make later on.Д¬olors, textures, shadows: Visualizer has a knack for making them pop. In fact, one of VisualizerвЂ™s more interesting uses is that it offers pretty quick photoreal previews of model compositions while youвЂ™re creating them. Once itвЂ™s processed, click the camera icon to export. Click the lock icon at the bottom to prepare an image. VisualizerвЂ™s controls are practical and simple. The Visualizer team hasnвЂ™t built a rendering engine here theyвЂ™ve built, well, a visualization tool. WeвЂ™re not talking about jaw-dropping renderings that take four hours to process in a server farm. YouвЂ™ll notice right away that Visualizer makes it one-click simple to create slick photorealistic images.

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(Incidentally, Visualizer costs $19.99 and starts with a 7-day free trial, so in a few clicks you can download it and see for yourself).

For me, it was a new - and for sure, fun - experience to tune into this instant feedback. The first time you activate Visualizer, it feels a bit like turning on a photographic assistant inside SketchUp - someone following your modeling work, quickly re-painting your sketches into polished scenesвЂ¦ while youвЂ™re orbiting and sketching. IвЂ™ve been playing around with Visualizer since 3D Basecamp 2014, so this post is a collection of my impressions to date, and a few tips IвЂ™ve picked up on. You know, delicious stuff like this:ДЈD Warehouse model of the Sydney Opera House, processed in about 60 seconds with Visualizer They also fit pretty well for Visualizer, an extension that provides instant photographic previews of SketchUp models and exports fast, clean photoreal images. Simple, fast, fun: three adjectives we often use to describe SketchUp.

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