Preset Page

SU Podium V2 presets have been crafted for certain rendering environments and are available from the Options menu in SU Podium V2. Presets were created to control hidden variables that effect things like Physical Sky turbidity, sun brightness and contrast, ray trace bounces, amount of ambient light, tone mapping variables, anti-aliasing, etc.

There are three categories of standard presets; default, exterior and interior. Default is a general purpose preset not calibrated for anything specific. Interior and exterior preset types are especially made to give the best results for their specific interior or exterior SketchUp environments. These two presets types have four variation to give different quality and speed results. Specifically _preview is the lowest quality but fastest, standard, high and QMC (highest quality). Use the _standard preset if you have any questions. If you have a combination exterior and interior scene, you may need to experiment with the best preset.

    For Windows, SketchUp 8
    c:\program files (x86)\google\google sketchup 8\plugins\SU_Podium_V2\presets\
    For Windows, SketchUp 2013
    c:\program files (x86)\sketchup\skechup 2013\plugins\SU_Podium_V2\presets\
    For Windows, SketchUp 2014
    C:\Users\YourComputerName\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\Plugins\presets\
    For Mac, SketchUp 8
    MacIntosh HD\Library\Application Support\Google SketchUp 8\SketchUp\Plugins\SU_Podium_V2\presets\
    For Mac, SketchUp 2013
    MacIntosh HD\Library\Application Support\SketchUp 2013\SketchUp\Plugins\SU_Podium_V2\presets\
    For Mac, SketchUp 2014
    MacIntosh HD\Library\Application Support\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins\SU_Podium_V2\presets\

Presets can be opened and edited with a text editor if you know what you are doing. If you want to venture into creating your own presets, please read the PDF document that describes all the Podium rendering hidden variables at the bottom of this page.

This page offers non-standard presets that Cadalog, Inc. and other customers have developed as an alternative to the presets that come installed in SU Podium V2. Download these .pps files to your:

Important Note: Presets have a file extension of .pps which your browser may mistake as a Power Point file. Right click on the Download here link and use Save Link As...

SU Podium V2 Plus and Non Standard SU Podium V2 presets

Important Note: Presets have a file extension of .pps which your browser may mistake as a Power Point file. Right click on the Download here link and use Save Link As...

    Interior_High_1.0.8 (August, 2013)
    There is a zip file with a .pps file in it.
    This interior preset was created for V2Plus but works well with V2. Rendering with this preset can be significantly faster than the Interior QMC preset and without the image graininess. This preset uses two prerendering passes to increase overall image quality, but there is a speed penalty over the standard (preview, default, fine) presets. Tonemapping is improved and there is a much reduced likelihood of blotches.
    This is very different from the 1.0.5_interior_high as that only adds more smoothing to the rendering.    		 Download the Zipped version
    Exterior_High_1.08 (August, 2013)
    There is a zip file with a .pps file in it.
    Rendering with this preset can be significantly faster than the Exterior QMC preset and without the image graininess. This preset uses two prerendering passes to increase overall image quality, but there is a speed penalty over the standard (preview, default, fine) presets. Tonemapping is improved and there is a much reduced likelihood of blotches.It also works well with the 2 ½ D grass components in Podium Browser.
    This is very different from the 1.0.5_exterior_high as that only adds more smoothing to the rendering.    		 Download the Zipped version
    1.0.5_exterior_vegetation preset (May 7, 2013)
    There is a zip file with a .pps file in it.
    This preset is very similar to the above Exterior_High_1.0.8 preset. It was created specifically for the generic 3D trees in the 3D Trees Architectural category in Podium Browser and for the 2 ½ D grass components. Light bounce variable has been increased. The download file is a .zip file. Unzip it.    		 Download the Zipped version
    1.0.3 Exterior
    This is an older preset made to give you more control of sun intensity and exposure sliders.
    Download here
    1.0 Exterior Night
    Obviously created for night exteriors
    Download here

 

Download the Preset PDF documentation here - Click Here

Check the SU Podium User forum in the Preset thread for continued customized presets and discussion. Click Here for the Preset Thread in the Forum.

Read the Preset Guide tutorial to understand Presets well. Click Here for the Preset Guide.