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User Manual
Twilight Render is:
A photo-realistic rendering plug-in for Google SketchUp*.
Now realistic renderings are possible from within SketchUp without having to spend months or years learning some complicated software. With Twilight, it takes care of much of the hard work for you, so you can concentrate on designing and even enjoy rendering.

Design. Render. Relax.
• MaterialTemplates create complex materials with a click. Ceramic, Metal, Paint, Stone, Light Emitter, SSS and more. Continue Working in/Saving SketchUp Models While Rendering Multiple Render Methods • Biased (multiple) (non-progressive) • Unbiased (3) (progressive) Multithread to Unlimited Number of Processors. (1,2,4,8, or 16 cores in your machine? No problem. No extra charge!) Alpha Mask for Selected Object(s)Render Selected Object(s) Parallel, Spherical, or Physical Cameras Physically accurate materials, Fresnel reflections, Blurry Metal Reflections, Sub Surface Scattering, Volumetrics and more. Depth of Field (DOF) easy as a mouse click View Framing Tool to help with precise camera setup. Image Based Lighting (HDR), Use an HDR to light your scene, or Render your own spherical HDR images (save asOpenEXR) Interactive Tonemapping = Real Time Interactive Exposure Adjustment Render to Pass (works with selected object/group/component too!) Alpha Mask, Depth Render, Diffuse Pass,Specular Pass Render fly-thru animations and more with little fuss Render Animated Lights, Sun&Sky, or Objects Object animations created with SketchyPhysics or ProperAnimation for SketchUp are supported. (these plugins areavailable separately from their authors.) Automatically Recognizes Alpha channel for PNG, PSD, Tiff, TGA images when applied to surfaces in SketchUp. Save images as .jpg, .png, .bmp, .tif, .hdr, .exr Render Quick Concept Images or get as Photo-Realistic as you want to make it. Render Edges of Faces and you keep full control of the edge thickness** Languages, choose one from the options menu -English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese … and more to come

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*Wherever the name “SketchUp” is used, it is noted that it means Google SketchUp. Google Inc. and SketchUp are copyrighted/trademarked entities and are not affiliated with Twilight Render. **Edges that do not form faces can not be rendered.

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Twilight Render User Manual Table of Contents
Twilight Render is:....................................................................1 Overview..................................................................................4 To render your model in (6) simple steps............................4 Greatrenderings need four (4) things................................4 The Twilight Toolbar............................................................4 Section 1: The Render Dialog...................................................5 Render Dialog Menu Bar....................................................6 Render Dialog Toolbar........................................................7 Settings WindowFrame.....................................................8 Camera Tab......................................................................14 Advanced Tab...................................................................16 Animation Tab...................................................................17 Render Window................................................................19Troubleshooting:...............................................................21 Section 2: The Omni (Point) Light Tool...................................23 To place an Omni Light in your scene:.............................23 Section 3: The Spot Light Tool ...............................................24 To place a Spot Light in your scene:.................................24 Section 4: The Light Editor...