Parameters Sketchup to Render
Image Type
Exterior (outdoor)
Aerial (masterplan / bird's eye) — Beta
Interior (indoor)
Booth — exhibition and trade show stands (Beta)
Custom (free-form prompt) — Beta
Light & sky
Predawn — deep blue sky, amber at the horizon, lights still on
Golden Hour — warm raking sun, long shadows, graded sky
Thin Clouds — midday, hard sun, blue sky, short shadows
Thick Clouds — midday, soft-lit cumulus over part of the sky
Blue Hour — teal sky, warm building lights against it
Night Scene — full dark, the building lit only by its own lights
Overcast Day — unbroken cloud, no shadows, muted colour
Morning Mist — low fog, distance fading out
Heavy Rain — visible streaks, wet reflective ground
Snowing — settling on every horizontal surface
Room lights
On — warm light in a few rooms, so the building looks lived in
Off
Blue Hour and Night keep the building's lights on either way.
Surroundings
Auto — keep whatever the source image shows
Match — continue the setting your model suggests
Trees — a soft treeline along the horizon
Forest — dense woodland right behind the building
Mountain — the building stands on a mountainside, ridges beyond
Sea — open water out to the horizon
Village — small houses among trees, set well back
Suburban — one and two storey houses
Urban — a glass and steel city centre
Downtown — shopfronts, signals, street trees
What stands around the building. Anything but Auto is invented for you — the answer when the model has no context at all, and the wrong answer when your image already has one. Downtown paves open ground — pick Match if your model has lawns.
Landscape
Well kept — lush, tended trees and planting
Natural — lawns become dense, unclipped low shrubs
Designed — a landscaper's garden: lawns stay, edged with hedges and beds
Realistic — real-site lawns, uneven and a little worn
How the trees and planting look. It can still re-read some ground: paint lawns a clear green in SketchUp, or name the spot in Notes ("the lawn at the bottom right stays lawn").
Materials & notes
Additional notes — materials & colour (optional)
Name anything that came back as the wrong thing or colour — a flat, undrawn ground in your model has nothing to say what it is, so sand, gravel or water there needs a sentence here. Up to 300 characters — the model reads only so much. People and cars are added afterwards in Add People.
For views from high above — a raised street view suits Exterior.
Light
Time of Day
Predawn — cool even light, path and window lights still on
Golden Hour — long raking shadows, warm sheen on water
Midday — bright neutral daylight, short shadows, crisp glass
Blue Hour — cool shadowless light, the site's own lights doing the work
Night Scene — full dark, lit only by windows, paths and fittings
Surroundings
Auto — keep whatever the source image shows
Match — continue the setting your model suggests
Trees — a soft treeline along the horizon
Forest — dense woodland right behind the building
Mountain — mountain ridges beyond the site
Sea — open water out to the horizon
Village — small houses among trees, set well back
Suburban — one and two storey houses
Urban — glass and steel towers as tall as the building
Downtown — dense mid-rise blocks and shopfront streets
What lies around and beyond your site, and what plain white around it becomes. Plain boxes modelled around it become real buildings — houses, apartments and offices, or the kind you pick here. Your site's own lawns and paving follow Landscape.
Landscape
Well kept — lush, evenly tended lawns and trees
Natural — lawns become dense, unclipped low shrubs
Designed — a landscaper's garden: lawns stay, edged with hedges and beds
Meadow — clumps of feathery ornamental grasses
Realistic — real-site lawns, uneven and a little worn
How the trees and planting look from above. It can still re-read some ground: paint lawns a clear green in SketchUp, or name the spot in Notes ("the lawn at the bottom right stays lawn").
Notes
Additional instructions (optional)
Up to 300 characters — the model reads only so much.
Light
White light
Warm light
Evening light
Night
Artificial only — lighting is added to suit the room. Draw your light fittings in SketchUp to choose where they go
Stage — auditorium, theatre or lecture hall: dark seating, warm light on the stage
Lights that are switched on need fittings to come from. If your model draws none, the render adds some — draw your light fittings in SketchUp to choose where they go.
Artificial lights
On
Off
Mood
Depth — soft light that settles into shade
Bright — bright, open light that fills the room
Light direction
Auto — follow the room
Left — from the left of the frame
Right — from the right of the frame
Front — from behind the camera
Back — from the far side, toward the camera
Above — falling straight down
Where the light comes from. Back gives rim-lit, contre-jour photographs; Above reads like a rooflight.
Room & view
Shot Type
Full Room
Close-up / Detail
View through the window
Auto — follow the source image
Garden — planting and shrubs
Forest — woodland close by
Street — at ground level
City — from a high floor
Anything but Auto asks for a view, so a panel that could be either a wall or glass will be made into a window. Leave it on Auto for a room whose windows are not obvious. A note naming the panel as solid usually holds it, unless your model draws that panel like glass anyway.
Weather outside
None
Rain — streaking down the outside
Overcast
Mist
This describes what is happening outside, so like the view above it needs somewhere to be seen from — on a room without an obvious window, rain or mist will have one made. One sentence in the notes below naming the panel as solid usually stops it — but not when your model draws the panel like glass in the first place, and then only the model can settle it.
Materials & notes
Additional notes — materials & colour (optional)
The strongest control on the page, and it takes two kinds of thing. Short words for atmosphere — onsen, steam is enough: measured, it brought warm lanterns, a lit pool and real steam over the water, and moved nothing. Name the room and add anything it should have that it would not get on its own. A whole sentence to correct something — a single word cannot deny anything, so write it out: "the tall pale panel at the far end is a solid wall, not a window", or "the ceiling is dark charcoal, not white". Up to 300 characters — the model reads only so much. People are added afterwards in Add People.
The stand
Venue
From the source — the hall already modelled
Hall — an exhibition hall with a trussed ceiling
Outdoors — a paved city plaza
The floor, the backdrop and anything standing around the booth are read from your image.
Stand lighting
Cool white
Warm white
Off — lit only by the venue
Impact cool — the hall dark, the stand spotlit in cool white
Impact warm — the hall dark, the stand spotlit in warm white
Impact darkens everything around the stand for a show-night picture; outdoors it turns the scene to night, and the other three keep it daytime. A carpet may come back with a sheen.
People
None
A few visitors
Busy stand
Notes
Extra detail (optional)
Printed panels are copied from your image exactly, and a panel left blank stays blank — describe artwork here only if it is already on the model.
Your prompt
Prompt
Sent exactly as written — none of the built-in guidance is added. The model reads about 2,400 characters and silently drops the rest, so put what matters first.
Parameters Video Upload a finished render . Only the camera moves.The building is held by the prompt — storey count, window positions, materials and colour. But the first frame is not your source pixel for pixel : the engine re-renders it, so an image a client has already signed off will not match exactly.
Camera move
Length
5 seconds
10 seconds
Quality
Draft — fastest and cheapest, for trying camera angles
HD — good enough to deliver
Full HD — the sharpest
Extra detail (optional)
Off by default — the sound is invented, not recorded at the site. It costs the same either way.
Parameters Detail Shots Upload a finished render, then drag on the picture on the right to draw a box round each thing you want a close-up of — up to four. Draw each box snugly round the whole object, and only round something that is really there.
Eye level — an architectural close-up. From above — a raised, near-isometric view, like a furniture catalogue; strongest on low, long pieces.
