SketchUp game exporter (Source)
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Very cool, I'll be checking this out shortly (hopefully).
Chris
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wow...nice info...i think sketchup will be greates 3d software to build games...
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That's cool.
Too bad it doesn't export straight to the Crysis Sandboxtools...
Or even better, to the upcoming Far Cry 2 engine as I think this will be a nice engine for architectural real time walkthroughs. -
that would be awesome! and we had a reason to play fancy computergames and pretend to be working!
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Does Crysis have a good game editor? I have the game, but dont play it because my video card is just a little too slow for it. But it might be worth it if the game editor is worthwhile...
Chris
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@chris fullmer said:
Does Crysis have a good game editor? I have the game, but dont play it because my video card is just a little too slow for it. But it might be worth it if the game editor is worthwhile...
Chris
Yes it has a good editor called sandbox2 ( note:sandbox1 was the editor of Far Cry 1).
If you bought Crysis after februari 2008 you should have the latest built of the editor on the DVD ROM, but you could also download it from the official website.Unfortunaly sandbox2 doesn't let you import SU straight away but you could use the 3DsMax or the Lightwave plugin as a bridge. It is tedious though....
A real 1 one 1 Sketchup to game engine should be a much better solution. I hope there will be one for the Far cry 2 engine (= Sandbox3 ?). -
@kwistenbiebel said:
@chris fullmer said:
Does Crysis have a good game editor? I have the game, but dont play it because my video card is just a little too slow for it. But it might be worth it if the game editor is worthwhile...
Chris
Yes it has a good editor called sandbox2 ( note:sandbox1 was the editor of Far Cry 1).
If you bought Crysis after februari 2008 you should have the latest built of the editor on the DVD ROM, but you could also download it from the official website.Unfortunaly sandbox2 doesn't let you import SU straight away but you could use the 3DsMax or the Lightwave plugin as a bridge. It is tedious though....
A real 1 one 1 Sketchup to game engine should be a much better solution. I hope there will be one for the Far cry 2 engine (= Sandbox3 ?).Wish you stuck with english sometimes! hehe!
Just wondering how this would then be viewed? Can you export an animated walkthrough? can you share the walkthrough without the game? Can you set the walkthrough or is it viewer operated?
I'd love to see someone come up with a better animation export from SU models. I like the idea of texture baking like fry.
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You need the game to see the model, and it is not like a walkthrough. Its more like turning tour model in to a game level, so you could have multiple players log in and walk around together, drive through it, fly through it,etc. They could even kill eachother in it if you allow them. But the idea is that these games have such good real time rendering and physics engines, that is makes a great way to share a model (with other people who have the same game platform). Though many of the games the map editor work with are pretty cheap, and only getting cheaper.
Chris
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@chris fullmer said:
You need the game to see the model, and it is not like a walkthrough. Its more like turning tour model in to a game level, so you could have multiple players log in and walk around together, drive through it, fly through it,etc. They could even kill eachother in it if you allow them. But the idea is that these games have such good real time rendering and physics engines, that is makes a great way to share a model (with other people who have the same game platform). Though many of the games the map editor work with are pretty cheap, and only getting cheaper.
Chris
Hmmmm! Maybe one day I'll have to try a game other than space invaders! Seriously yes it's been that long! You guys probably aren't even old enough to know what that is! Mike (Mayor) Lucey jump in and help me out here! No really I've played GP4 but cant work out how one would get the F1 car through the door of a skippy model.
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, yes I remember space invaders. That was a great one. Played it a lot on my atari.This is a bit of a specialty thing that can be a lot of fun. I've used the Battlefield 1942 game engine to put my models in to, and I've also used Virtools which is more of a game development system than just a level editor or mod manager. It's powerful, but a bit intense for what I wanted. I'm eager to figure this one out. I am hoping they release the next version soon that handles entire level imports, and not just models.
Chris
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@richard said:
@chris fullmer said:
Hmmmm! Maybe one day I'll have to try a game other than space invaders! Seriously yes it's been that long! You guys probably aren't even old enough to know what that is!.
Space Invaders oh yeah. Together with Frogger, Pac Man and Donkey Kong those are great memories...
All played on a commodore 64 and later on the Amiga.
It still sucks the Amiga died somewhere in the early nineties. -
Do a search for Crysis on digitalurban - they did some videos of architectural fly-throughs in the Crysis Sandbox.
The game's physics are very impressive!
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wow! they state, that they can import directly from google warehouse - whitch means they support skp-files
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They said they would show a how-to more than half a year ago.
Still no tut today. -
Holy moly, almost sounds like a good reason to buy Crysis, or the next Far Cry - to get the editors...
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Wow I'm surprised, I didn't expect to find a post about Playup Tools on Sketchucation. Anyway, I figured I would drop in and let everyone know that we've seen the thread and the interest in the tools. Pretty cool
Although I'm sorry we don't currently have support for Unreal or Crytek but I've bumped it up on my list of things to evaluated.Just know that we started with Halflife Source instead of Unreal, Gamebryo, Crytek, etc.. because the Source tools are terrible and the mod community/user base is large. Unreal also has a large community but its tools are easier to master and Crytek's are even better. As such, we figured a large body of frustrated Half-life mod makers would be a good starting place to develop a user base.
But we've always planned to support and augment SketchUp as an editor for the popular game engines.Thanks again!
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well, that is some news!
thanks a lot Froggery. I see a glimpse of a bright feature for SketchUp - and for architects, walking through (messing up
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@jim said:
Do a search for Crysis on digitalurban - they did some videos of architectural fly-throughs in the Crysis Sandbox.
The game's physics are very impressive!
Hi - thought i would join having seen the link above. I do apologise for the lack of tutorial, the Crysis sandbox had a bug that delayed development and then due to work load we had to move on. We plan to get back to Crysis end of August with that tutorial - you can take any model from the Google 3D Warehouse and import it into Crysis with a few tweaks.
Its a very impressive engine, as i hope the movies on the blog show, so apologies again and the tutorial will go live soon as we get chance
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This is great news!! I'm a big fan of Half Life and TF2, the Source engine is great, and since i saw this post on Digital Urban (http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2006/08/frank-lloyd-wright-architectual.html) i've been dreaming on placing sketchup models on Source!
This is really good for Architects also! we can make a model of a building and then walk in it with the customer making it much easier to explain the project and propose changes.Hey Gaieus what do you think about exporting my Rome model to the Source engine?
oops. It's my special 'forum' English. 
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