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    • StinkieS Offline
      Stinkie
      last edited by

      Well ... I'm not certain SU needs a real-time physics engine or real-time rendering. In any case, if I were Google, I wouldn't implement them. I'd keep things as they are: simple. I would, however, add some modeling tools and hig-poly support. Maybe I'd throw in a couple of texturing tools. That'd be it.

      I am absolutely convinced there's only a couple of extra things needed for SU to become the top dog in it's niche.

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      • Mike LuceyM Offline
        Mike Lucey
        last edited by

        .... if it wasn't attractive before why should it be now!
        Being free is not good enough a reason 👎

        In order to top SketchUp, something will have to be writen
        from the ground Up 😉

        Mike

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          tomsdesk
          last edited by

          My interest with this news is two fold:

          First, I hope it provides the impetus so Google will finally tell us what the hell they are doing for us (blind faith wains at my age...as time is running out :`)

          Second, I'm wanting/needing a realtime high-poly assembler to combine my sketchup models with my onyx growies and the other great stuff I don't have the patience or just can't to use in SU...if SU7 turns out not to fill this bill. (And I don't want to spend much bucks...free is pretty cheap ;~)

          I'm 100% with Stinky: give me high-poly, multi-core, plus throw in a way to backstep some of the SU6 interface to the simplicity of SU5...and I'll be a giddy school girl in love with my first love again.

          http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
          2.5D Trees & Shrubs!

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            kwistenbiebel
            last edited by

            @unknownuser said:

            Well ... I'm not certain SU needs a real-time physics engine or real-time rendering. In any case, if I were Google, I wouldn't implement them. I'd keep things as they are: simple. I would, however, add some modeling tools and hig-poly support. Maybe I'd throw in a couple of texturing tools. That'd be it.

            I am absolutely convinced there's only a couple of extra things needed for SU to become the top dog in it's niche.

            Like Tomsdesk, I agree 200% with Stinkie.
            Multicore,high poly etc...
            As for new functionality, Google could just provide an improved platform (and support) for external coders (Ruby or other languages etc...).

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              lewiswadsworth
              last edited by

              @tomsdesk said:

              ...and I'll be a giddy school girl in love with my first love again.

              Wow! Was I off! So much for my facility for judging the gender of forum members from their names and posts!

              --

              Read down the comments here:

              http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/07/23/announcing-truespace-for-virtual-earth-3d-development.aspx

              Way to puncture the guy's balloon, Bruce!

              col sporcar si trova

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                tomsdesk
                last edited by

                @lewiswadsworth said:

                Wow! Was I off!
                Easy, Tiger, I just forgot a couple of as's...down boy, down boy.

                Bruce: yur bad! LOL

                http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
                2.5D Trees & Shrubs!

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                  lewiswadsworth
                  last edited by

                  Did you read the "evangelist's" response to Bruce's comment? I know he was just suggesting to give the new version a try, but as I was reading it I heard a voice from the long-ago television commercials of my youth:

                  Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

                  OK, time to take a break and get some coffee...

                  col sporcar si trova

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                    tim
                    last edited by

                    A quick scan suggests it doesn't run on OSX; therefore it is of about as much interest to me as liver and onions.

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                      linea
                      last edited by

                      I can't really see how Truespace competes with Sketchup, unless it has had a total overhaul. Is this just an impulse buy by MS? What happened to 3d Via?

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                      • MALAISEM Offline
                        MALAISE
                        last edited by

                        How intuitiv is SU, compare to that huge drawing monster. Really impressive, but like others friends , the GUI is so rich that you sink and hardly swim between the
                        features..

                        Let me back to SU6 , even SU 7....

                        MALAISE.

                        La Connaissance n'a de valeur que partagée

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