New function on the 3D WH, 3D VIEW
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Have you guys noticed the new function on the 3d warehouse? you can now click on 3d view on the right corner of the model window and see it in 3d by rotating it left to right and viceversa.
What do you think..gimmick or useful? i say both
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Thats pretty good, will certainly make checking the quality of components easier.
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They are using the SU Web Exporter plugin that was released earlier this year. You can use it yourself; it's halfway down this page.
http://sketchup.google.com/download/plugins.html -
nice...definitley helpful since SO much stuff on there is crap....haha.. definitely a cool plugin though, might have to look into using that.
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sometimes it messes up and makes the model look like cr@p
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It's true... I've had a couple models where textures, for some reason or another, appear with a blue tint.
Ex: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=2ab6064a93f504ff1d11896425865490
(A halo 1 extract, painted with halo 3 textures by Normandu, gun, interior textures, and more added by me. Look at the wheels)Meanwhile, some look fine
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=ec26ff8e5bcd25a25dfd2d7998768282
(halo 3 master chief extract, modified by several other users, textured by me with images off the web)...and some are just ridiculous.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=7c50718a4811fb8c1b32aed2c3a48410
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Cool feature, surely!
And Google didn't even tell about it
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@gaieus said:
And Google didn't even tell about it
Always good to get surprised every now and then, keeps you on your toes
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Yeah, that is pretty cool! Thanks for pointing it out. The 3dwh is on my list of things to get familiar with. I felt bad bashing since I had never really used it
So I'm trying to get a better understanding of it. so far so good, and this is a cool addition.Chris
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FF has also been using this for the example models on its homepage for some time, but they are offline at the moment, because of a site overhaul.
I tweaked the code a little because I found that the standoff distance was too great in many cases...like looking at the model through wrong-way-round binoculars. I found it was even possible to get inside a model, rather than always viewing it from a distance.A few of those animations...there was one of a marina...were used at a demo at basecamp.
The problem with the inside-looking-out animations are that you need many more frames, because the object of your attention...often something in the distance...is very subject to even a small change of angle of view, so 36 frames is an absolute minimum for a full rotation. Whereas you can get away with only 18 the other way around.
The full sequence for the marina was nearly 1 MB...not a good load time.James has since come up with a new Ruby for us which spins the model on the spot, rather than the camera orbiting around the outside. It also has the advantage of maintaining whatever distance you set up initially in the window, so you know exactly what you are getting in advance. It's also quite useful to see the shadows changing as the model rotates relative to the sun.
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look up Tigre Feroce Lexington IS it makes it look HORIBLE (stupid bug)
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@alan fraser said:
James has since come up with a new Ruby for us which spins the model on the spot,
Alan where can I get this plugin?
Also is it possible to keep use this plug-in but keep the shadows in the same location IE: I guess you would need to alter the sun location so I think I just answered my own question.
I did this 360 view:
http://www.nvizeon.com/360view/whc/index.htmlI altered the html file created by webexporter and changed the images to ones I created by making 36 separate camera views around a circle and exporting the jpgs myself.
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@kdsdesign said:
look up Tigre Feroce Lexington IS it makes it look HORIBLE (stupid bug)
I looked this up on the warehouse and there is nothing there.
@Phil. Its on their downloads-plugins page here:
The first one un Under Viewer compatibility. Google SketchUp Web Exporter (Beta)
Chris
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@chris fullmer said:
@kdsdesign said:
look up Tigre Feroce Lexington IS it makes it look HORIBLE (stupid bug)
I looked this up on the warehouse and there is nothing there.
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@kdsdesign said:
look up Tigre Feroce Lexington IS it makes it look HORIBLE (stupid bug)
Well, so to say at least it reveals all the mistakes the guy did when he was even unable to clean that imported model.
I'd leave that bug there like it is now.
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wait, Imported? its his model
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@chris fullmer said:
@Phil. Its on their downloads-plugins page here:
The first one un Under Viewer compatibility. Google SketchUp Web Exporter (Beta)
Chris
Chris, and Alan I meant the Ruby that "James" made that rotates the model. This is different than the web exporter plug-in. and Who is James?
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another bug, I mentioned earlier.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=7c50718a4811fb8c1b32aed2c3a48410
Look at the window. See anything funny?For some reason, the 3D viewer makes textures with differences in transparency turn blue.
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Yes, that's a known issue about it and "they are working on it..."
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I've noticed something: none of the most recent models have 3D views
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