Render Fun

The render engine from Türkiye · Free

No exporting ordeal: photo-real renders, right inside SketchUp.

Render Fun is our own render engine, made in Türkiye. It runs in SketchUp’s own window; the first image appears at once and sharpens while you watch. Weather, quality and one RENDER button are all you need. Completely free.

v0.65.0 · renderfun-0.65.0.rbz · 343 MB · SketchUp 2021–2026 · Windows

FreeSketchUp 2021–2026Fast real timeTürkçe · English
A SketchUp model: a bedroom, rendered inside SketchUp with Render Fun.
A SketchUp model: a bedroom, rendered inside SketchUp with Render Fun.
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206/206SketchUp test runs passed
2021–2026SketchUp versions
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Render Fun

What is Render Fun?

A render engine that lives inside SketchUp. It reads your model as it is, traces real light on the graphics card and shows a usable picture from the first second, so you judge light and materials while you design rather than after an export. It was built so that a ten-year-old could take a render without reading anything, and a visualiser still finds colour management, light mixing and IES lamps one click deeper.

How does it work?

Your model goes straight in

Render Fun opens as a window inside SketchUp and reads the model itself: triangles, materials and textures, camera, sun and lamps. There is no separate program, no export file and no import step. Move the camera or change a material and the render window follows.

The graphics card traces real light

For every pixel the graphics card follows rays of light as they bounce off walls, pass through glass and fall into shadow. This is path tracing, the same principle the big offline renderers use, running in SketchUp's own window through WebGL2.

The first image comes at once, then it sharpens

You do not wait for a finished frame. The first pass appears immediately and every pass adds light samples, so the picture cleans up while you watch. Stop whenever it looks good enough, or let “Until clean” stop by itself once the image is clean.

A denoiser cleans up the rest

While you work, a fast denoiser keeps the preview clean even at a few samples. For the final render on Windows, an AI denoiser runs once at the end.

From the first second to the final frame

1 samples
1 samples
16 samples
16 samples
1024 samples
1024 samples
1024 samples + denoiser
1024 samples + denoiser

From noise to a clean image

The same 16 samples: drag to compare the raw image with the denoised one.

Raw
Denoised
RawDenoised
⇆

Change the hour, the light follows

The same room as the sun goes down from 40° to just below the horizon. Every frame is a real render.

Change the hour, the light follows 1/4
Change the hour, the light follows 2/4
Change the hour, the light follows 3/4
Change the hour, the light follows 4/4

Features

What makes it different

01

Fast real time

Press the Real-time button and walk through the model like in a game: W A S D, drag to look, Shift to run. Sun shadows, bounced light, reflections and glass are drawn instantly, and RENDER gives the path traced image from the angle you stop at.

02

Plants

Our own plant pack of 129 trees, shrubs, grasses and indoor plants: scatter them over a terrain, line them up along a path, place pot plants with a click, turn surfaces into lawns and keep paths and terraces clear, while the SketchUp model stays light.

03

Render inside SketchUp

No second program and no export. The camera follows at once; sun, materials, geometry and tags update live as you model.

04

Simple enough to use without reading

Pick the weather, pick the quality, press RENDER. Every panel opens with one-click presets; the sliders are under “Detailed settings” for whoever wants them.

05

AI denoiser and “Until clean”

An AI denoiser on the final render (Windows), and “Until clean”, which stops the render by itself once the image is clean.

06

Sun, sky and HDRI

Physical sky with SketchUp's own sun, 10 built-in CC0 HDRIs, your own .hdr / .exr files and SketchUp 2025+ environments, with rotation, strength and background options.

07

Lamps like a lighting designer

Point, spot and panel lamps, IES light distributions, glowing textures, and a light mixer that changes lamp groups' power and colour after the render.

08

Materials in one click

Click a surface and choose matte, glossy, metal, glass, mirror, water, fabric or car paint; SketchUp 2025 PBR maps are read; a name like “glass” or “emissive 200” sets the type; a material library of 20 categories with 298 texture sets comes built in. Smart UV places a texture at its real size in one click.

09

Colour and detail without re-rendering

AgX, ACES and Filmic colour management, colour correction, white-point picker and looks; ambient occlusion and cavity edges. They work on a finished image, instantly.

10

Quality where it counts

Four anti-aliasing levels, faster interiors, depth of field and bloom.

11

Built for large models

Large models open about twice as fast as before.

12

Render Buffer

Every finished render lands in one window, newest first, numbered RenderFun001, RenderFun002… so nothing is overwritten; the last 60 are remembered after SketchUp closes.

13

Turkish and English

Every word of the interface in both languages, with a picture guide built into the plugin.

The interface

One screen, a rail of panels on the right: presets first, sliders one click deeper.

One screen: weather, quality and RENDER
One screen: weather, quality and RENDER
While rendering: time left and “Good enough, save”
While rendering: time left and “Good enough, save”
Colour: one-click looks
Colour: one-click looks
Click a surface, pick a material
Click a surface, pick a material
HDRI environments, built in or your own
HDRI environments, built in or your own

Benchmark

Every version, tested in every SketchUp

Every test starts SketchUp itself, builds a model, renders it and measures the result. The latest round, in charts, is on the benchmark page.

1,162/1,162checks passed
206/206SketchUp runs
Moving an object in a large model2.1× faster8.85 s4.26 sClosing and reopening the render window3.5× faster23.41 s6.76 sMoving in a heavy-texture scene4.9× faster3.57 s0.73 s
BeforeAfter

Open the benchmark report →

Gallery

Made with Render Fun

Renders by our users and by us. Send yours and it can join the gallery.

Living roomAfternoon sunAs the sun goes down1024 samples and the denoiserTowards sunset16 samples, denoiser on

Open the gallery →

Where does it run?

Price
Free. Download, install and render; no account and no licence key.
SketchUp
2021 to 2026. Every setting is tested with automated tests in SketchUp 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026; 2023 or newer gives the best result. SketchUp 2020 and older are not supported.
Operating system
Windows. macOS has not been tested yet.
Graphics card
A graphics card with WebGL2 support; Render Fun sets its quality to the card by itself, and a compatibility mode helps cards that cannot run the full renderer. Measured so far on an NVIDIA RTX 4090; integrated graphics have not been measured yet.
AI denoiser
Included, on Windows. The preview denoiser works everywhere.
Internet
Not needed. HDRIs, textures and the denoiser are inside the plugin.
Languages
Turkish and English.

Download Render Fun free

Version 0.65.0. No account, no licence key; free for personal and commercial work.

renderfun-0.65.0.rbz · 343 MB · SketchUp 2021–2026 · Windows · Open on Google Drive

By downloading and installing you accept the Render Fun Licence Agreement. Download Render Fun only from this site or from bestsketchupplugins.com.

How to install

IMPORTANT: SketchUp must be closed while you copy the files!

  1. Download renderfun-0.65.0.rbz.
  2. Close SketchUp.
  3. Open the .rbz file with WinRAR or WinZip (an .rbz is a zip archive).
  4. Extract all the files inside it into this folder: C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp <your version, e.g. 2025>\SketchUp\PluginsAppData is a hidden folder: type %APPDATA%\SketchUp in the File Explorer address bar and press Enter to get there directly.
  5. Start SketchUp. Render Fun appears in the Extensions menu and on its own toolbar: open your model, click the Render Fun button and press RENDER.

Latest updates

Every version since the first day, newest first. The version you download is 0.65.0.

v0.65.0 The version you download

  • The render engine in the package is protected.
  • The licence and third-party notices ship inside the package (Turkish and English).

v0.64.0

  • Faster editing and steadier running on large models.
  • Every large texture now loads.
  • Safe start after a crash.

v0.63.0

  • Smart UV placement: one click places a texture at its real size.
  • Plants: place them along a line.

v0.62.0

  • Panorama tour presentation: a title and description card for every room, and a tour that plays itself.

v0.61.1

  • Fix: a number such as “5500k” in a light’s name is now read as colour temperature (Kelvin).

v0.61.0

  • Indoor plants: from 4 to 30 kinds.
  • Place plants one by one with a click.

All versions (83) →

Questions

Is Render Fun really free?

Yes. Render Fun is our own render engine and it is free to download and use, for personal and commercial work, with no account and no licence key. Download the .rbz on this page and follow the install steps below it.

How do I install Render Fun in SketchUp?

Close SketchUp, open renderfun-0.65.0.rbz with WinRAR or WinZip and extract all the files inside it into C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp <your version>\SketchUp\Plugins. Then start SketchUp: Render Fun is in the Extensions menu and on its own toolbar.

Do I need a powerful graphics card?

Render Fun runs on any graphics card with WebGL2 and picks its quality from a short speed test when it opens. A faster card simply cleans the image sooner. So far it has been measured on an NVIDIA RTX 4090; integrated graphics have not been measured yet, and we will publish those numbers when we have them.

Does it need an internet connection?

No. The HDRIs, the texture library and the AI denoiser are inside the plugin; nothing is uploaded.

Does it change my SketchUp model?

Only what you ask it to. Render settings are saved with the model; a material type you pick and the Render Fun lamps you place are written into it, and a material choice or a lamp-size change is one step to undo.

Does it work on a Mac?

It has not been tested on macOS yet, so we do not claim it. Today Render Fun is built and tested on Windows.

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