Resume Rendering lets you continue a rendering which has been completed - either because the number of passes or rendering time limit has been exceeded, or because you clicked the Stop Rendering button.

IRender nXt is a multi-pass rendering system. The early passes allow you to quickly check settings - such as lighting and materials.

You can then either make changes and restart the rendering, or use Resume Rendering to add more passes for better results.

• See: Resume Rendering

Adding lamps and light fixtures will provide lighting for your Interior Scenes or Nighttime Scenes.

• SketchUp lamps - many SketchUp lamps are automatically used as light sources.

• Create Lamp - the lamp wizard makes it easy to add custom lamps.
• Components and Lamps - the Object Properties Wizard makes it easy to turn any surface or object into a lamp.
• Video: Interior Lighting Basics
• See: Create Lamp or Light Fixture

Applies reflection and transparency directly to SketchUp materials. Changes are made easily with a slider bar.

IRender nXt sets multiple settings for a single material - such a setting both transparency and index of refraction for glass materials.

• See: Material Wizard

Lighting Channels is an important new feature of IRender nXt which lets you quickly adjust light sources. By assigning channels to sun, sky, and groups of lights, you can quickly adjust the intensity of each channel with a slidebar and immediately see the effect on the final rendering.

You can quickly adjust the intensity of each channel with a slide bar and immediately see the effect on the final rendering. This will saves time both in determining the relative intensities to use for light sources and in fine tuning the final image before publication.

In Version 3.5, Lighting Channels are integrated into the Batch Renderer, as well as used separately with the nXt Image Editor.

Videos and Tutorials

• Integrated Lighting Channels Video
• Using Lighting Channels with IRender nXt Video
• Balanced Lighting Tutorial
• See: Lighting Channels