As Adam Billyard, developer of LightUp Plugin for SketchUp has announced, version 1.7 is out. Some of the new / improved features include:

Improved IES handling (including Type B)
Much faster processing of large models
1-click adding of Light Sources
Auto aiming of multiple light sources
Improved Image-based lighting

One of our top contributors, Eric Lay (aka “Boofredlay”) has won the Speed Modelling Competition # 18 (”My Crazy Chair”). A well deserved trophy and yellow badge until the next challenge – #19 “Pet House” – is over.

As announced in the Competition Voting Topic, the winner of Speed Modelling Challenge #17 – “Video Games” is Pete Stoppel (aka “solo”) with this entry.
Congrats, well deserved yellow badge!

As The Daily CathcUp posted about John Coupe’s Shed Design Competition 2009 a month ago in this article, we would now like to call the attention of our readers that the competition is about half way and there is another month to submit your entries. As gossip tells, there have already been SCF member(s) who [...]

SCF Member Chris Glasier compiled and released his first video tutorial of a longer series of his cgScenes plugin. His vision of what he calls “superscenes” is becoming more apprehensible when watching his video (also embedded below).
“…What I am suggesting is we need something other than a paperwork metaphor as a focus for software design [...]

A new, Beta version of SU Podium has been released (currently available for Windows – Mac Version coming soon). “A better soft shadows algorithm has been added to Podium making this version SU Podium 1.7.1. This new soft shadows program only effect rendering speeds slightly and creates beautiful results” says the announcement.
Please, visit the Podium [...]