Native village_podium 1.7.1 (with tutorial on page2)

nomeradona

Nomer, you are a true Master of texturing. I'm sure your work looks amazing even in the SketchUp viewport. Excellent!
with this actually a lot of time i moved from sketchup to photoshop then sketchup, to get what i want. you will agree with me that this is one of the good thing in Sketchup7

nomeradona

@sepo said:

Yes the quality of output has gone up a lot on the P forum, I would say as well.
V2 ...hmmm can't really talk about it, otherwise I'll wake up with a horse head in my bed
sid is right.. me myself was surprise. it maintain the speed and yet the quality has gone up. pretty happy with its latest arsenal.. the soft shadow of the sun..

nomeradona

@michaliszissiou said:

Makes me jealous nomer. The third image.
hehehe you michalis.. with your arsenal in your workflow your jealous? man i am the one who is because you have all the time to play with other apps. me i dont even have the time to watch those blender videos....

nomeradona

thanks oli and teo...

liam887

very nice, texturing is my weak point but I can see youve done a really good job!

nomeradona

@liam887 said:

very nice, texturing is my weak point but I can see youve done a really good job!
im doing a tutorial precisely about my workflow. will share the link here later.

nomeradona

Ok i just finished this tutorial with my workflow using SkethUp and Podium workflow
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?anmfejzwocw

nomeradona

here is the original podium output without photoshop...

nomeradona

and here is a screen grab with the model. so as to have an idea about the model.

Ecuadorian

Thank you!

steelers05

these are some pretty amazing images...especially for podium. Way to push the software Nome...great work

michaliszissiou

These are beautiful once again.
"but you will see the uv mapping is as not as easy as SU" But you can't texture a simple apple. There comes a time that you'll decide to come to paradise nomer. SU UV mapping is a mess or something worse, sorry to say this. Nice GUI for a newbie but not for you.

liam887

SU UV mapping isnt a mess its impossible as far as I know, I thought you had to use another programme?

The tutorial was great I need to get SU7 lol

nomeradona

@ecuadorian said:

Thank you!
your welcome my friend.

nomeradona

@steelers05 said:

these are some pretty amazing images...especially for podium. Way to push the software Nome...great work
i started with podium, and there is a saying "first love never dies".

nomeradona

@michaliszissiou said:

These are beautiful once again.
"but you will see the uv mapping is as not as easy as SU" But you can't texture a simple apple. There comes a time that you'll decide to come to paradise nomer. SU UV mapping is a mess or something worse, sorry to say this. Nice GUI for a newbie but not for you.
i think i know what you are saying michalis, and precisely you are right on UV mapping. the UV mapping ruby provided by WHat work in a way, but sadly when i export all the maps, applied in each face will be exported too. Definitely, i agree that when it comes to texturing organic forms, mapping with SU is as not as handy when it comes to software that supports UVW unwrap. On the other hand the easeness of projected texturing is what i love with SU. so again it depends with the scene we are making.
With MAx UVW unwrap im use too know, then painting the texture in photoshop.
I dont know but SU with architectural stuff, i still prefer those 4 pins..on the other hand when it comes to organic modelling i dont use it because of the UV mapping. but you know and me have similar approach use other aps to map all these then import them to SU.. which i think more and more i will do.

liam887

yeah it is amazing I hope I can get my rendering on par with my modeling soon your pic really is awesome!!! any more images like this by the way?
plus on your tutorial can you not do the texture thing with v.6 do you have to use 7?

nomeradona

@liam887 said:

SU UV mapping isnt a mess its impossible as far as I know, I thought you had to use another programme?
The tutorial was great I need to get SU7 lol

Michalis is talking about cylindrical and spherical mapping as SU use projected texturing. like i have said it has two coins. with architectural i think SU is an ease to use but with organic, is ok but you will see the projection later.. WHat has provided with a ruby on this, the texcture is wrapping, but i have a problem in mapping it the way i wanted.. so a UVW UNWRAP ruby perhaps is a good thing to wish.

liam887

where can I get WHATS's ruby can you post a link im hopeless at finding rubies on this site lol

nomeradona

@liam887 said:

yeah it is amazing I hope I can get my rendering on par with my modeling soon your pic really is awesome!!! any more images like this by the way?
plus on your tutorial can you not do the texture thing with v.6 do you have to use 7?

rendering is one thing but in order to get really a good result, proper texturing is a must. do you know that flaws can be hidden by good texture? HEre is a perfect example of that. I knwo the model has a lot of flaws if you put them near the camera view. anyhow as for your question yes you can use that edit texture only with SU7. that is one of the nifty tool that i like with SU7.