LightUp v2.4 is a new major release of LightUp that has some great new features that really accelerate the workflow of using SketchUp and LightUp to produce high quality content; there are also many fixes and improvement to existing functionality. New Features & Changes from LightUp v1.x: – Realtime shadows – Realtime animated water – [...]
Paul Russam, one our SCF long time members has posted the latest information on a real world project he has been working on for some time that has now been completed. The project is a church renovation in Northern Ireland and Paul provides us with some great images of the actual finished job and the [...]
Scalado Remove could be just the app we need for taking those pictures of buildings in busy thoroughfares. We’ve all experienced the problem of having an unwanted pedestrian slap bang in the middle of the perfect shot. I have other apps that allow for the removal of unwanted objects from images but there successful use [...]
Adam Billyard, LightUp developer, has just advised SketchUcation that retail customers of LightUp v2.x can now login here and get the 2.4c free update. New for v2.4c, – Fixes for Intel HD 3000 GPU – Improved graphics performance – Up to 15% increase in lighting performance – Player Export includes Shadow Info for realtime animation [...]
Boofredlay (Eric Lay), one of our Global Moderators, has produced a great video tutorial on how to produce a Space Frame using Google SketchUp and some plugins. If you have ever wondered how to go about this, Eric’s video tutorial is a must. The video link and an ongoing topic where you can ask Eric [...]
Raylectron is an affordable, easy, fast and a powerful Google Sketchup render plugin. It will change the 3D design into a realistic image. – just released by SoftByte Laboratory, Inc. Google Sketchup 3D design software is one of the fastest growing 3D graphic software in the industry. However, the output is very plain and lack [...]
Alexander (Firefox11), one of our new SFC members from Russia has shared his ‘Designing the site for oil separation‘ project with us. The project is most impressive and demonstrates just how well SketchUp can handle these types of projects. Alexander describes the project as follows, ‘This is a real project for which I developed working [...]
A new SketchUcation member, dugketterman (Dug Ketterman), has been kind enough to show us some of his work in the area of skatepark design using SketchUp. For those interested in learning more about this interesting application for SketchUp, you can follow the thread here. I for one will be subscribing to the thread as Dug [...]
LumenRT2 has been just released! The following is a list of the new features and capabilities, – A trial version to download and test – New advanced lighting modes for even greater realism – Fully moveable and animatable sun – A new material editor for adjusting LumenRT material parameters – Faster scene processing – More [...]
MoI is also a fantastic complementary tool for a polygon-based artist since its CAD toolset and advanced boolean functions enable extremely rapid creation of mechanical or man-made type “hard surface” models. The icing on the cake is MoI’s unique polygon mesh export that generates exceptionally clean and crisp N-Gon polygon meshes from CAD NURBS models. [...]
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