You can adjust these settings and see the real-time changes in the Enscape window.

It’s possible to move the sun's position in the Enscape rendering window, and Enscape can also take the geolocation and time of day/year settings from the Shadow and Location toolbars in SketchUp. Therefore, it’s essential for you to know how to adjust it. Sunlight can impact the look and feel of your project.

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Check that your GPU drivers are up to date.

Download the free sample project and follow along.

Make sure you’re using the latest versions: Enscape 3.3 and SketchUp 2022.

Add colored lights, self-illuminated materials, and skyboxes.

Place different light types into your model.

We’ll guide you through the basics to help improve your SketchUp and Enscape workflow and brighten up your visualizations. You click a button, and ta-dah, a high-quality render of your project appears within seconds! But there’s so much more that you can do to add more depth to your visualization with just a few tweaks to lighting. You already know that visualizing your SketchUp model in Enscape is simple.