Are you ready for SketchUp 7 news?

remus

I dont tink theres much point in gettign your hopes up, its nothing major (as coen said.)

lewiswadsworth

I bet it will be limited improvements in...wait for it...wallpaper!

And they will add five or six more tabs to the Styles Window just to make it more cumbersome!

todd burch

@johnsenior1973 said:

I just bought the subdivide and smooth plugin this week, so I know that Google will announce that they're releasing SU7 with fantastic S+S capabilities.

HA! Consider being on the other end, and slaving over a new script for a few months, only to have it displaced by a new feature (3D Text Tool)!

Todd

sintra

So if its not a biggy why wait until Saturday

otb designworks

@unknownuser said:

@johnsenior1973 said:

I just bought the subdivide and smooth plugin this week, so I know that Google will announce that they're releasing SU7 with fantastic S+S capabilities.

HA! Consider being on the other end, and slaving over a new script for a few months, only to have it displaced by a new feature (3D Text Tool)!

Todd

Except that your tool is way more versatile! I'd buy your 3D text tool, for sure, if I hadn't already.

lewiswadsworth

@tomsdesk said:

Bah! Humbug!

I think that the Speed Racer movie is supposed to be out Saturday...I'll be busy trying on my Racer X mask.

JClements

Perhaps its a request for beta testers or that it will previewed at the Base Capmp?

Jorgensen

They have fixed the shadow bug

Jorgensen

huh ? true ?

david_h

Maybe the big news is that we're skipping 7 altogether and going right to 8.

diana

@jorgensen said:

They have fixed the shadow bug

That would be something worth crowing about... such a horrid problem to still have.

Phil Rader AIA

@jorgensen said:

They have fixed the shadow bug

I'd buy that for a dollar. I've always wondered why they left such an obvious "bug" in the application.

Maybe they'll throw in fixing the view plane being cut off if you have a Large (spatially large) model and try to zoom into an area.

Those two things alone would be worth the upgrade.

lewiswadsworth

@unknownuser said:

@jorgensen said:

They have fixed the shadow bug

I'd buy that for a dollar. I've always wondered why they left such an obvious "bug" in the application.

Maybe they'll throw in fixing the view plane being cut off if you have a Large (spatially large) model and try to zoom into an area.

Those two things alone would be worth the upgrade.

Fixing both of those issues would require dumping the current graphics language for...what, Microsoft's DirectX? Where would that leave the Mac SU users?

Incidentally, said Shadow Error was fixed in SU4...it just happens that someone owns the IP rights to the method for fixing it, and they were not willing to share. Or maybe no one at Google cared to pay them what they wanted for it.

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/7113

http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2004/07/29/creative-gives-background-to-doom-iii-shadow-story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_volume

SU4 implemented Carmack's Reverse, but since then...like the Raven said.