
The Smart SketchUp Plugin For Scattering
Populate your scenes with UNLIMITED Vegetation with TOTAL CONTROL all while SAVING TIME and never leave SKETCHUP!
Populate your scenes with UNLIMITED Vegetation with TOTAL CONTROL all while SAVING TIME and never leave SKETCHUP!
From small carpets in a living room to large scale forests, Skatter is designed to help you achieve the final look fast and easy.
Through its “Render only” feature, Skatter sends all the scattering information directly to the render engines, bypassing Sketchup. That way, you keep a lightweight and responsive file while still being able to render huge amounts of objects.
Go back and edit your work at any time. Every option and parameter is saved, so there’s no need to delete everything and restart from scratch.
Create huge grass fields in just 4 clicks. Expect regular free updates with awesome new content (more vegetation, trees, gravel, carpets, etc).
Thanks to dozens of options and parameters. Yet keep things simple with the adaptive UI. See the list of features below.
The “Render only” feature is currently supported by Thea, V-Ray, Corona, Twilight, Indigo, Raylectron and Kerkythea. You can still use Skatter with any other render engine (Octane, Maxwell, Shaderlight, Podium, LightUp, etc), by actually generating the objects in the model.
The brainchild of Architect and 3D Artist Thomas Hauchecorne and brought to you by 3D Artist and ArchVIZ Blogger Ronen Bekerman, Skatter is made to fit your needs!
Scatter objects on surfaces, along curves, or pick individual points in the model.
Define precise areas where you want to distribute or not the scattered objects, by using SketchUp curves and objects, or by painting them yourself.
Generate only the objects visible by the camera, or discard the ones too far away.
Distribute objects randomly, on a grid, or a mix of the two, on vertices, faces, etc. Use altitude, slope, and collisions parameters to fine tune the distribution. Use probabilities when scattering multiple types of objects, to define precise mixtures.
Randomize the objects placement by using random translation, rotation, scale, and mirroring.
To avoid hard cutoffs, you can use falloff parameters with areas, altitude, slope, camera clipping, to define smooth transitions.
Is Skatter supported by my render engine?
Skatter’s “Render only” feature is currently supported by Thea, V-Ray, Corona, Twilight, Raylectron, Indigo, and Kerkythea.
To use Skatter with all the other render engines, you’ll need to uncheck “Render only”. If you want your favourite render engine to support Skatter, please go ahead an submit this request with the engine’s developers. It has to happen on their side as Skatter has no control over this.
Can I use Skatter for other purposes than rendering?
Yes! Absolutely. If you don’t activate the “Render only” feature, Skatter will generate regular components. So you can use it for whatever you want.
On how many computers can I use one license?
For each license of Skatter, you can install it on no more than two computers, provided that it is used on only one computer at a time.
Which SketchUp versions are supported by Skatter?
SketchUp 2014, 2015 and 2016 for both Windows and OS X.
Is there a demo/trial version?
Yes, we have a 15 day Demo version of Skatter, you can get it here.
I get "This serial is not valid" message all the time. What do I do?
Make sure you copy the serial with the dashes. Just copy/paste the serial as is.
What software & hardware does Skatter support?
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