SketchUp is excellent for modeling structures, but creating a convincing environment (terrain, grass, water, atmospheric fog) can be cumbersome. LiveSync allows you to build your building in SketchUp while simultaneously building the surrounding landscape in Lumion. You can sculpt terrain in Lumion while watching your building sit perfectly on it in real-time.
The plug-in provides several tools to streamline the design-to-render workflow: lumion livesync for sketchup