Adventures in Sketchup

Starship · June 1st, 2011, 10:54 AM

Yes, you read it right.
I begun to play with Sketchup yesterday, 05:00 PM just to see what I can do with that pgm and, at 08:00 PM I got this.

Just a plain render and border cuts in the old Paintbrush. Kirkythea isn´t instaled yet. For an exercise just to see where I can go with sketchup, in 03 hours, it turned out very well I believe. Opinions?

gmd3d · June 1st, 2011, 11:57 AM

Looks great, never heard of the program ... is it a free one .

Darrell Lawrence · June 1st, 2011, 12:16 PM

Isn't that the free Google 3D thingimabob?

Starship · June 1st, 2011, 01:15 PM

Yes, it´s Google Sketchup, which you can have for free. A paid version exists too, and isn´t that expensive.

I´m playing with the pro version, instaled at my workplace.

gmd3d · June 2nd, 2011, 02:20 AM

cool ...... I will add it to the free programs list , if its not there all ready .

looking forward to seen what else you will dream up

Crusader · June 6th, 2011, 10:48 PM

did it in Sketchup!!! WOW! could you share you first steps on getting started? I've wanted to get deeper into sketchup as an alternative to trueSpace (which is crashing more frequently on my rig and is frustrating the HECK out of me) but never quite know where to start...

For those interested, Autodesk just release their own freeware 3d app to the masses and it looks GREAT so far, check out the quick tutorials and the basics... its the best looking user friendly UI i've ever seen!!! http://www.123dapp.com/

evil_genius_180 · June 6th, 2011, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Crusader

For those interested, Autodesk just release their own freeware 3d app to the masses and it looks GREAT so far, check out the quick tutorials and the basics... its the best looking user friendly UI i've ever seen!!! http://www.123dapp.com/

Thanks, I'll have to check that out when I'm running Windows again. I'm trying to break away from trueSpace also but I don't like Blender that well, Wings isn't much better for me and I haven't tried SketchUp yet.

Crusader · June 6th, 2011, 11:35 PM

same here, blender is too complicated and difficult to get into, same with wings, but that is where 123d looks different... Sketchup seemed a bit tricky to do advanced 3d manipulation things with but sounds like they do have plugins and methods to get around that... remember, Sketcup was basically started to do simple architectural designs to upload to Google Earth, but users are doing AMAZING renders and design with it now, goolge and check out some galleries on the net...

gmd3d · June 7th, 2011, 01:46 AM

cool .I will have to check out some of those Gallery's

Starship · August 14th, 2011, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Crusader

did it in Sketchup!!! WOW! could you share you first steps on getting started? I've wanted to get deeper into sketchup as an alternative to trueSpace (which is crashing more frequently on my rig and is frustrating the HECK out of me) but never quite know where to start...

Excuse me for the looong waiting.
As a first step, I recommend you to start with try and error, just to familiarize yourself with the interface. An advice: Sketchup isn´t friendly when doing curved geometry. You´ll need to figure your proper workarounds when doing this. Other recomendation, is to do a search for free plugins that can make your like more simple.

There are good tuts all around too, like these:
http://translate.google.com/translat...istory_state0=
http://www.render.ru/books/show_book.php?book_id=808
An interesting topic: http://forums.sketchucation.com/view...p?f=81&t=33642

Hope that helps.