The Presets lets you choose predefined settings for the most common lighting situations.

There are a lot of settings to create special lighting effects. The presets make it easier to get a good rendering without having to make all the setting manually.

Standard Presets

• High Dynamic for subtle shadows for exterior scenes.
• Exterior - for exterior scenes with sun and sky.
• Interior with Sun - Interior scenes with lighting through doors and windows.
• Interior no Sun - Interior scenes with no external lighting.
• HDRi Sky - Exterior scene with a sky full of clouds.
• See: Lighting Presets

IRender nXt automatically uses SketchUp transparency settings. It includes refraction, reflection and illumination through the transparent surface.

You can edit the transparency settings with a slider-bar, change the Index of Refraction , or add other special effects such as Translucency and Caustics

• Video: Transparency Video
• See: Transparency

Background Images are special images which you can place behind your model.

• Simple Background - you can use any image as a simple background for skies or other pruposes
• HDRi Skies - for full illumination and reflection of a background image, you will need to use an HDRi Sky
• Image Layer WIzard - backgrounds can easily be positioned using the Image Layer Wizard.
• See: HDRi Skies
• Video: Background Wizard Video
• See: Background Image