The most powerful Scattering Extension for SketchUp.
Render huge amounts of vegetation, quickly populate city blocks, create parametric assemblies, crowds, carpets, you name it…
All right inside SketchUp!
Bring your models to life
Cover your terrains with vegetation presets with a couple of clicks, or bring your own assets to quickly populate your scenes with people, rocks, cars, buildings, furniture…

Render without restrictions
Through its “Render only” feature, Skatter sends all the scattering information directly to the render engines, bypassing Sketchup.
That way, you keep a lightweight and responsive SketchUp model, while still being able to render huge amounts of objects.

Mimic Nature’s organic appearance
Nature is both random and organized. Skatter has many features to simulate both and fine-tune the asset distribution and placement.

Content Library
Skatter comes bundled with 3D Bazaar, an extensive repository of high-quality render-ready assets.
Many vegetation assets come with ready-to-use Skatter compositions, so you can instantly apply them in your scene without spending time finding the right parameters.

You are always in control
Manually or parametrically fine-tune the distribution of objects using masks and other advanced features.

Speed up your workflow
The clean and intuitive User Interface will get you started in no time, while allowing you to precisely fine-tune advanced parameters.

Skatter is also non-destructive: you can go back and edit your work at any time. Every option and parameter is saved, so there is no need to delete everything and restart from scratch.

CHANGELOG BELOW

2.2.1 (2024-04-11)
Features

Added support for SketchUp 2024.

Bug fixes

Fixed an error that occurred in some rare cases when using boundaries.

2.2.0 (2022-11-17)
Features

Skatter now supports newer Mac computers with M1/M2 chipsets.

Added an “Ignore boundaries” option to surface hosts and masks to provide more flexibility when using the Boundaries filter.

Added a “Regenerate all” button to the composition manager.

The composition editor now remembers which UI sections have been expanded/collapsed for each composition.

Changes

Disabling the preview now only hides the instances that will be generated. Other elements like masks and cameras will still be displayed, making it easier to work on a composition while maintaining good performance.

Bug fixes

Fixed object-space distributions not aligning the instances’ axes with the host’s.

Fixed the object groups being lost when exporting/importing compositions.

Fixed automatic generation not running when deleting the last remaining object of a composition.