Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Render
Sunday, June 20th, 2010

The Portuguese translation of Twilight Render for SketchUp has just been released. A huge thank you from Twilight Render to Alex Monteiro, (Lexmonteiro) – and of course all the translators to their own languages – for their contribution and hard work. You can download the latest Twilight Render plugin with the updated language packs here. [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Google Earth
Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Google Earth 5.2 (Beta) has recently been released. Among other, nifty improvements what makes the biggest news is that now it has an integrated (embedded) browser for viewing websites you are taken to when clicking on a link in a GE balloon. See the complete list of new features in the LatLong Blog.
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Render
Saturday, June 19th, 2010

As Giannis (Ioannis Pantazopoulos) announced (and Notareal also posted at SCF in case you are not a member of the Thea Render Forums to see the announcement), a new version of Thea Render has just been released. Indeed impressive, new features have been added like Thin Film Interference (see the effect on the fly above) [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Competition Blogs, Render
Saturday, June 19th, 2010

As our SketchUp to Píranesí Competition ended yet the announcement of the winner has not been made, we decided to showcase all the entries somewhat before the jury makes its decision. Hope you will all like what you see below (you can enlarge the slideshow to see it full screen) Note that the collection contains [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Laptop Table
Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Mayor Mike Lucey of SketchUcation has arranged a special 15% discount with Lounge-Tek on any of their Lounge-Book range. “I am using one and can highly recommend it for anyone using a laptop in the office or at home” says Mike in the forum topic. The promo code for the discount is SCFLoungeBook.
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Plug-ins
Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Although as Fredo himself wrote in the forums, this new plugin for Google SketchUp is in its (early) Beta phase, he released it for public beta testing. As you can see above, there are three possible ways of using the plugin but currently only Loft by Spline works more or less properly so use it [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Render
Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Shaderlight for SketchUp delivers interactive, photorealistic rendering to SketchUp users Rendering solutions provider ArtVPS has announced plans to launch Shaderlight for SketchUp, an interactive rendering plug-in that will enable users to easily create photorealistic images from Google SketchUp and SketchUp Pro. A beta version of the software has been released today and is available as [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Competition Blogs, SketchUcation Community Forums
Saturday, June 19th, 2010

The winner of the Speed Modelling Competition # 26 on “Flower Power” was Karina GM with this entry. Congratulation to the winner and all the other participants who submitted similarly valuable and exciting entries. See all the submissions collected in the Voting Topic.
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Comics Art, Video Gallery
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

SketchUcation Community Forum member Joel Metzger has published his newest movie “Not Noticed But Obvious” on his Treasure Inside site. “I live my days playing the game of My Life … and I find that I stand on a layer … the life that allows me to play… All visual metaphors I made up about [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
BIM, Google Earth
Monday, June 7th, 2010

The new version of Modelur, a Google SketchUp plugin for parametric urban design, has just been released. As developer and SketchUcation Community Forum member Jernej Vidmar informed us, beside some minor bugfixes reported by users, some major, new features have also been added such as Optimizing Modelur buildings for Google Earth export (see video); Invisible [...]