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Video Tutorials

Table of Contents

1. SU Podium V2 - Introduction Videos

Download these SketchUp 7models used that are used in the V2 video tutorials The Before model has no SU Podium V2 properties. The Done model has lights, reflections applied.

Sample model - before

Sample model - done

SU Podium V2 Quick Overview

This video introduces you to the basic features of SU Podium V2 including raytracing, global illumination, blurred and direct reflections, physical sky, refraction, caustic effect, automatic materials and SU Podium Browser. This is not a tutorial but a quick overview of what you can expect from SU Podium V2. Resolution on this video is 640 X 480. This link will take you to the top of the SU Podium V2 product page where the video is located.

Introduction to SU Podium V2's user interface and features

Venture into the world of SU Podium V2. V2 has a completely new rendering engine and new user interface, resulting in higher quality images. This video examines V2's user interface and presents and overall feature introduction. Please note - this video is based on the Version 2.9 released in January 2012 but is applicable to later versions. The video is seven minutes long. If you prefer to watch shorter, specific sections of the video, please check below.

Applying Podium properties

In SU Podium V2, reflections and other rendering properties are applied to textures in the model. This video examines how to apply reflections.

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Sun and Sky Light - Natural lights

In SU Podium V2, there are two types of "natural" lights. Sun and Sky. Take a look at how to apply these lights.

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LEM Lighting

In SU Podium V2, there are three types of "artificial" lights. This video tutorial presents LEM lighting.

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Omni Lights, Spot Lights, Light Fixture libraries

An updated method of creating omni/ point lights and spots lights was introduced with Version 2.5. This method uses an inferencing system which makes placement very intuitive. These video tutorial demonstrate how to create omni/ point lights and spot lights.

Shorter Subsets (slightly lower resolution in YouTube)

Automatic Materials - SU Podium V2.9 and greater (this is a free update for V2 users)

Automatic materials is a feature where predefined Podium reflection, blur, refraction properties are applied automatically to most of SketchUp's standard materials. SketchUp standard materials are the materials that you get when you install SketchUp.

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Combine Podium Browser with Podium Walker (and SU Podium)

A four part video series that explorers designing with Podium Browser render-ready components and visualizing with Podium and Podium Walker.


SU Podium Browser Paid Section


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Introduction to Podium Browser Paid Section

SU Podium Browser is a plug-in for SU Podium V2. It contains a Free section and a Paid section. The hundreds of pre-defined podium materials, advanced light fixtures, furnishings, 3D trees from the Paid section, can quickly turn your SketchUp model into a photo-realistic image.

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Podium Browser: Designing bathrooms in SketchUp? We got you covered!

SU Podium Browser Paid Section now has over 3,000 render ready materials and components that make interior and exterior design easy to develop and even easier to turn into realistic images. This video tutorial examines materials and components that make modeling and rendering a bathroom a snap.

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Podium Browser: Designing kitchens in SketchUp ? We got you covered!

SU Podium Browser Paid Section now has over 3,000 Podium render ready materials and components that make interior and exterior design easy to develop and even easier to turn into realistic images.

This simple tutorial will show examples of Podium Browser kitchen design components that can be instantly dropped into your SketchUp model and turned into high quality images.

    Read and Examine the transformation from model to rendered image more closely here.

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Podium Browser Materials

SU Podium Browser material section now has hundreds of Podium Materials that are material files with Podium render-ready properties on them. Podium Materials are dropped in to SketchUp as cubes. How and why does that work?

This simple tutorial will show how the material cubes work and how easy it is to get high quality render ready materials into your model.

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SU Podium - How to use the Omni Grid plug-in

How to use the Omni Grid plug in. This video is based on Podium 1.7 but it essential the same for SU Podium V2. This examines how to apply the Omni Grid free plug-in. All the lighting in the image on the left was created by Omni Grid. Omni Grid can be downloaded from the Download Page.

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SU Podium Render All- Animation with SU Animate

Create photo-realistic video animations using Podium's Render All and SU Animate. Click on the image on the left to view the detail tutorial.