Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Animation, LightUp, Presentation, Textures/Materials
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
There is an interesting topic on LightUp here, ‘Loft Model’! The topic revolves around LightUp’s texture baking abilities. Adam Billyard, the developer, advises and demonstrates, ‘LightUp bakes “view independent” lighting offline, and calculates “view dependent” effects in realtime. That essentially means diffuse light effects are calculated once and cached, and specular effects are calculated on [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Presentation, Render
Monday, November 7th, 2011
Next Limit Technologies has released Maxwell for Google SketchUp , a standalone package fully integrated into SketchUp. A limited version is available for free and full version is available for $95 (75€). [See download/buy options]. Maxwell for Google SketchUp allows users to achieve Maxwell Render™- quality without having to leave their SketchUp interface. Maxwell Render™ [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, Presentation, Render
Friday, November 4th, 2011
A new version of LightUp (v2.3e) is available in free demo and retail form (PC and Mac), here. The new release covers, – Anisotropic texture support (much sharper looking textures) – Improved realtime performance – More robust handling of user input – Fixed some precision issues – Fixes to FBX exporter with name clashes – [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, BIM, Google SketchUp, Modeling, Presentation
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
SCF member, Palo (Paul Verhelst) has been working on a cabinet design plugin for the past year and has been giving us ongoing updates on the Cabinet Design program for SketchUp topic here CabinetSense is finally available for download. There is a 14-day free trial and it is available for both the Mac and Windows. [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Presentation, Render
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
SU Walk for Google SketchUp provides photo-realistic animations in real time SU Walk from Cadalog, Inc. is a new, photo-realistic animation application for Google SketchUp models. Newly updated, SU Walk 1.0.11 was released today. SU Walk’s specialty is to turn SketchUp models into photo-realistic walk through/ fly through animations. Users can apply reflections and lights [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
2D Art, All News, Drafting, Image Manipulation, Presentation
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
I’ve just learned about Inkscape, an ‘open source scalable vector graphics editor’ that would appear to work well with Google SketchUp via .dxf (save) and .dxf (import). There is an old topic on the SCF which has been resurrected which shows the above image that was created in Inkscape and imported to SketchUp here
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Presentation
Monday, October 10th, 2011
Easter Seals have launched a contest with a $3000 top prize! Design a space in Google SketchUp that represents your dreams, skills or employment interests. You’ll be entered in the contest with the chance to win up to $3,000! Prizes: There are three Competition Prizes: One (1) GRAND Prize winner will receive $3,000 in the [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
2D Art, Adobe Photoshop, All News, Interiors Art, Presentation, Render, V-Ray
Monday, October 10th, 2011
The ‘Nomeradona Interiors’ post here demonstrates skillful use of SketchUp, V-Ray and PhotoShop and the resulting top quality images are a pleasure to view and learn from. He has also provided a link to a step by step tutorial, Nomeradona Mixed media approach_SketchUp, Vray and Photoshop here
Posted by Mike Lucey
3D PDF, All News, Animation, Presentation, Render
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Simlab Composer has upgraded to version 2.4 with many new features. What’s new in version 2.4? Building 3D Scenes New Decal System Improved Materials Management Improved Precise Transformation 3D PDF Preview Image Rendering Depth of Field Animation Exporting Animation To IPad Import\Export enhancements Updated Imports
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Animation, Presentation, Render
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Abvent have announced they will be launching iVisit3D shorty. I understand the application will be available for both Win and Mac users and is aimed at architects and designer wishing to show interactive panorama renderings on the Web. Examples can be explored on the announcement site. The above image has a small floor plan icon [...]
