The winner of the Speed Modelling Challenge #29 (“Tree House”) was Eric Lay (aka Boofredlay) wit this entry. Congrats to the winner and all participants for the extremely cool entries!
Lately I have been exploring possibilities to display 3D content interactively on the web. This can be for commercial purposes, too, but my primary goal is mainly educational. The other day my attention was brought to 3DVIA, an apparently cool and probably very effective ways to do this (I have yet to fully explore the [...]
ArtVPS has just announced that they (namely Kate Marshall and Martin Cox) are going to give some preview insight and demo of Shaderlight for SketchUp at the Google SketchUp 3D BaseCamp 2010 in Boulder, CO, September 1-3. Shaderlight is an interactive rendering plug-in that enables users to easily create photorealistic images from Google SketchUp and [...]
As developer Ioannis Pantazopoulos (aka “Giannis”) announced over the Thea Render Forum, Pete Stoppel (aka “solo”), member of Thea’s “A-Team” as well as moderator of the SketchUcation Community Forums will represent and demonstrate Thea Render – along with its latest advances (such as interactive render) – in Google SketchUp 3D BaseCamp 2010 in Boulder, CO. [...]
A new and extremely cool feature of the LightUp Plugin for Google SketchUp is animated flames. Developer Adam Billayard implemented genuinely and flawlessly animated materials in his brilliant plugin. Moreover, animated textures like flames work exactly the same way in LightUp Player, another excellent application, which is “provided as a small standalone Application (for Macintosh and PC) that can read “.luca” files created inside LightUp v1.9. These “.luca” files contain all your geometry and textures along with the lighting created by LightUp. Users of LightUp Player can double click these files to launch the view and move around to examine your work”.
The winner of the Speed Modelling Challenge #28 “Sculpture” was olishea (Oliver Shea) with this entry. This time, a special prize was offered by Martijn Joris of i.materialise: they offered a physical, 3D print of the winning model. Well, looking at what Oli sculpted, this will indeed be a challenge but if they can cope [...]
Simlab 3D Plugins Beta testing has started to import OBJ/Wavefront, Solidworks, STEP and FBX files to Google SketchUp. These currently work on Windows but Simlab Soft is working on a Mac version for the OBJ, STEP and FBX importers, too.
After some technical delay, the SketchUp to Piranesi Competition Results have been announced in the SketchUcation Community Forums, too. There were two categories; Exterior render and Interior render. The winner of the exterior render category was Geshu Liu (ecco lau) with the above entry. Runner-up of the exterior render category was Artём with this entry: [...]
Google has (finally) announced SketchUp 3D BaseCamp 2010 on their blog. After the initial inviting-nominating-inviting… process (read more about it in this forum topic), they are about to invite another 150 participants based on their SketchUp work example. To make it brief, here is a quote from the above blog post by Aidan Chopra ( [...]
SimLab Composer 2.1 delivers an enhanced render engine with PDF exporting. Rendering and sharing your 3d models with clients or colleagues has become even easier with SimLab’s Composer latest software release. Composer is a standalone program which enables users of Google SketchUp and Google SketchUp Pro to easily create Photo Realistic images and PDFs. Since [...]
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