Following is a tutorial that will help you get started using the plugin. Before doing so, though, it is a good idea to make sure that you have read the plugin overview.
Getting Started
First, it is worth mentioning that it is entirely possible to render a scene simply by clicking the Render button (or opening the Maxwell Fire window and clicking the Fire button). The plugin will automatically convert SketchUp's materials into Maxwell materials, using various heuristics to decide how each material ought to be converted. This process, however, is somewhat limited by a lack of information in the source SketchUp material; for example, all non-transparent materials will be exported as simple diffuse Maxwell materials, simply because there is no parameter in the SketchUp material by which the plugin could infer whether or not it should be exported differently.
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