Podium Browser Materials - how do they work?

Podium Browser Materials

Podium Browser material category 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 video tutorial will show how the material cubes work and how easy it is to get high quality render ready materials into your model.

Other References:

1. Quick Start Material tutorial - the basics of applying materials. Also uses EditInPlace.
2. Quick Start Interior tutorial is a simple tutorial on the basics of applying Podium Browser materials and Podium lightings for a good interior rendering.
3. Quicktip-browser-materials. This tutorial examines editing Podium Browser components and materials using SketchUp's Edit Component commmand.