Skatter

Skatter is a popular vegetation distribution and visualization plugin for Sketchup, a powerful 3D modeling computer program that has over the last 2 decades of active development managed to promote many new ways in approaching architectural, interior, landscaping, civil, film, video game, and mechanical engineering design. The core ability of this powerful extension is to realistically scatter vegetation and other objects, without overwhelming rendering Sketchup (and other supported rendering engines) and providing a reliable, optimized, and fast way to enrich your scenes with virtually unlimited amounts of vegetation objects. The entire process of infusing objects of varying sizes (from pebbles to large scale forests) is designed to provide users total control, streamline their workflow, and enable quick iteration and collaboration that will ensure the entire project will meet your goals.

When used in Sketchup, the Skatter plugin sends all of its rendering data directly to the renderer, thus enabling users to remain in touch only with the quick and responsive projects in their viewports. With detailed and expansive tool support, Skatter for Sketchup enables users to easily tweak every parameter, edit work, infuse the scene with additional objects pulled from its internal content library, and exercise fine control over the entire scattering process.



Scattering can be performed using some of the numerous tools, including Host (which automatically adds appropriate vegetation to the terrain), Areas (distribute objects to specific areas), random distribution, falloff control across transition areas, and more. To increase performance and streamline the entire scene, the plugin can automatically remove vegetation that is not covered by your predefined cameras or is too far away to be visible.

In addition to direct support for Sketchup, It can also be used as a plugin for a wide array of modern rendering engines aimed at professional and enterprise use, including V-Ray, Thea, Corona, Octane, Indigo, Enscape, Shaderlight, IRender nXt, Twilight Pro, Raylectron, Kerkythea, and many others.

Skatter is available for direct purchase or extensive and fully-featured testing via a 15-day FREE demo.