Export sketchup into gmax
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Hello, A long time ago I downloaded gmax, to creat buildings for simcity 4. After a while I mentioned that this program is really hard to work with. Yesterday I read somewhere on the sketchup website that it is possible to use sketschup for the creating of buildings for simcity 4. The one who wrote that tekst did not explain how, and I couldn't find his emailadress either, so I can't ask him. Is it possible to export sketchup moddels into gmax?
With friendly greetings,
Andries de Vries -
Hi Andries and welcome to the forums!
I believe you need 3ds (or compatible) format for gmax. This (along with a bunch of other 3D and 2D vector formats) can be exported from SU Pro (only). You do not specify in your profile which version of SU you are using but if you cannot find the 3ds export option, I guess it's the free version.
What you can do is to use the software for a while (until you get a good grip of it) then try the 8 hour trial version of Pro to see whether you are happy with the export. Then you may wish to decide to purchase a license or find another solution.
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There is another workaround. Its a bit more complicated but it will work indefinetly with the free version of SU.
First you'll need a copy of blender. Then you need to export your model form free SU as a google earth 4 file. Once youve done this, find the file and change its extension to .zip (.kmz files are actually just zip files in disguise.)
If you then open up the zip file you'll find a folder called 'models', in there you will find your model with the extension .dae. This file format can be imported in to blender, and then from blender you can export your model as a .3ds
Thanks to lewiswadsworth for this tip.
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Thank you all for the support. I will try it out as soon that I have made some nice things.
( I have a lot ideas... )
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