Just stumbled across this forum.
I've been working on a plug-in for Sketchup that gives realtime rendering of your models inside Sketchup (no exporting). It supports point and area light sources with normalmaps/specmaps and you can walk around with collision/gravity etc and it works with Sketchup's Scenes too. The idea is you can flick between modelling and realtime instantly.
Its kinda, Newport for Sketchup! :-)
Called "LightUp" and the website is light-up dot co dot uk (I don't seem to be allowed to include a web link..)
Adam
