Dear SCF members, this is just a short notice that the SketchUp to Piranesi Competition submission deadline has been extended until June 15. Please find all relevant info in the original (updated) announcement of the competition linked above. Also, read an interesting interview with Steve Evans of Informatix, developer of Piranesi. The inspirational images above [...]
In co-operation with Google SketchUp and ínformatíx – Píranesí 2010, SketchUcation proudly announces the SketchUp to Píranesí Competition with great prizes worth over $ 4,000! This contest is designed to highlight the SketchUp to Piranesi Plug-in and the ‘Design to Art’ abilities of Piranesi 2010. We will be accepting entries in two categories, Exterior Renders and Interior Renders.
Piranesi 2010 Lite and Piranesi 2010 Pro are from Informatix Software International (ISI) of Cambridge, makers of the MicroGDS 2010 2D/3D CAD BIM system. Steve Evans, their Managing Director answers a few questions from “The Daily CatchUp” regarding their Piranesi 2010 products. TDC: What is Piranesi? Steve: Piranesi is the world’s leading Non-Photorealistic rendering package. [...]
Although I am a bit late to announce the winners of the SketchUvision Competition organised by Ice Edge, there is a little excuse as I as also trying to collect all the date (e.g. videos) the contestants made to showcase their entries. Thw winner was d12dozr (Marcus) with this entry (see also embedded video below). [...]
The winner of the Speed Modelling Challenge # 25 about “Musical Instruments” was Martha Maatkamp (“Pyroluna“) with this entry (see small resolution version also above). A well deserved victory not only with the perfectly worked out model but the originality of the design as well. However this time, exceptionally, let me also mention the “runner-up”, [...]
SketchUcation Community Forum member and generous contributor with his plugins, Thomas Thomassen (aka “thomthom”) has updated his Cleanup Plugin. Features Cleanup Model — Version 1.1.0 Plugins->Cleanup->Cleanup Entire Model Presents the user with a dialog box of various cleanup operations to be perform on the entire model. Especially useful to clean up imported 3D models from [...]
Guzman Tierno amazed us with his students (junior high at around 13) and what they do in Google SketchUp. This time they created an epic movie about the Troy War. What a fantasy indeed (Brad Pitt can hide in shame) See the SketchUcation Forum discussion here. [youtube width="480" height="295"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcYCuhTgwqY[/youtube]
Some Google SketchUp users have been bugged with greying out (and getting inaccessible) of some context (aka “right click”) menu items in SketchUp (see forum topics here and here). With the help of the Google SketchUp engineers (thanks to Jeff Hauswirth and all the others who took part in tracking down the problem), the issue [...]
As developer Ioannis Pantazopoulos (aka “Giannis”) announced on the Thea Render Forum (you may need to log in to see the announcement), the development of Thea Render has arrived to a next stage and the latest RV370 released. Please, find the download links to the beta version in the announcement above. The exporter plugin (by [...]
Twilight Render version 1.4 for Google SketchUp has just been released for Windows. “In this release, we’ve fixed a long standing material problem that was causing circular image artifacts. We are pleased to say that the results are more realistic and up to 25% faster! We are making this its own release (1.4 vs 1.3.1) [...]
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