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Twilight Features
What render methods does Twilight support?

Twilight provides biased and unbiased rendering using the following methods:

  • Photon Mapping + Final Gathering
  • Path Tracing, both fixed and progressive
  • Bidirectional Path Tracing
  • Metropolis Light Transport (MLT)
  • Many other specialized pass-oriented methods, like Diffuse, Ambient Occlusion, Depth, Clay and more.
 
Does Twilight support animation?

Yes, Twilight renders native SketchUp animation as a sequence of images.  This means that other plugins for animation will work seamlessly in Twilight.  It even supports rendering with SketchyPhysics!

 
Does Twilight support Photometric (IES) lights?
Yes, Twilight supports Photometric (IES) lights, both as Light objects and as Light Emitting materials.  Not only will Twilight render your IES lights accurately, it will convert your light's geometry into a 3D representation of the IES data!
 
Does Twilight support Network Rendering?
Currently, Twilight does not make network rendering available.  Network rendering will be available in a future release.
 
Does Twilight support Image Based Lighting?
Yes, Twilight supports Image Based Lighting using both HDR and standard (jpg, png, etc) images.  Environmental lighting is available as spherical and hemispherical images, physical sky, and solid color, among others.
 



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