Most impressive SketchUp modelling

[OG1]

Wow! Amazing models! Sorry if this has been asked already, but how on earth do you guys get those textures on your models to look so realistic like that? Just on page one alone of this thread...the car by urgen and the guitar pic posted by dale.

Amazing!

[pilou]

Not so big the model of Karanak

@unknownuser said:

• Final SketchUp document (without anti-aircraft turrets): 67MB
• Final area: 4,745,000 polygons (without anti-aircraft turrets)

[ergio3485]

[ergio3485]

[cmckillip]

I have been coming to this site for 3 years now and really never got into the "writing on a forum" untill this last year after loosing my job and searching for work in a town that was proposed dead in residential design.

This is a shot of the last home I designed in Sketchup, Is it worthy of this thread, I will let you figure that out. The one thing tht I will comment on is....

1. This is all Sketchup - from the ground up
2. No script or plugins were used, everything is designed and drawn from Sketchup 8.
3. landscape was added from 3dWarehouse
4. The output is directly from Sketchup - No rendering, No Photoshop

Chris

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[Carloh]

i keep wondering how he did the pavement...does anyone know? or any suggestions how it can be done?

[Gaieus]

This is his original thread:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=10549
there are some clues about the different techniques.

[Carloh]

thank you very much!

[Daniel]

Not sure if he's been mentioned prior, but I think Tadema's work is worthy of inclusion. Here's one:

[Stinkie]

indeed.

[dale]

Absolutely!

[irwanwr]

wow

[laoliang]

nice!

[pbacot]

TADEMA!

[pilou]

By ixlrlxi

[thomthom]

Been watching him for a while now. His work is sexy! Damn beautiful vehicles he creates and renders!

[urgen]

@unknownuser said:

By ixlrlxi

model: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=914dd930c5e4c321f97ab6038531522&prevstart=0

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ixlrlxi&oq=ixlrl&gs_l=youtube.1.0.0.15308.35804.0.37339.7.6.1.0.0.0.160.615.2j4.6.0...0.0...1ac.Xqs2m4hDvqg

[DesertRaven]

To be completely honest, none of the great samples shown in this thread would be possible without Plug-ins and painful long hours of recreating surfaces over and over again (work around's) until it fits. Right?

[Marian]

@desertraven said:

To be completely honest, none of the great samples shown in this thread would be possible without Plug-ins and painful long hours of recreating surfaces over and over again (work around's) until it fits. Right?

And you think that with other 3d apps you do it differenly? They may have all the plugin functions integrated but you still need patience and hard work to make cool stuff, in fact much more patience and hardwork to just learn the UI.

There is nothing wrong in having a simple and friendly interface that is augmented with mostly FREE plugins. Why would it benefit you to have a cluttered UI with all the possible tools and maybe just use 10% of them, instead of having a flexible UI?

[numbthumb]

Here we go again again...

Earlier in this thread:

@rich o brien said:

I'll split the topic when/if it continues. It is a debate worth having, but not here.