Sketchup and Blender

michaliszissiou

we should still keep in mind how rapidly Cycles renderer is developing, right?
I noticed this artwork today, byn blender artist Spelle.

arail1

That is an incredibly impressive image!

Rich O Brien

Sneak Peek: Blender Toolbar Tabs

Campbell Barton demonstrates an early version of tabs for the Blender user interface. Remember this is still very much work in progress! I like what I’m seeing…

BlenderNation (www.blendernation.com)

New UI coming

olishea

About bloody time! This is the only thing that holds me back from being competent with blender.

andybot

@rich o brien said:

Sneak Peek: Blender Toolbar Tabs

Campbell Barton demonstrates an early version of tabs for the Blender user interface. Remember this is still very much work in progress! I like what I’m seeing…

BlenderNation (www.blendernation.com)

New UI coming

Looks like a nice evolution. Not sure Oli that it'll necessarily make Blender easier to learn. From what I could tell it doesn't fundamentally change anything about the UI, just makes it a bit easier to navigate.

pilou

It's a pity that was not make from the beginning!

Rich O Brien

The level of commits for the next Blender is growing...

Render time remaining now added

Themeable UV editor

Cycles speed improvement

OSL improvements.

michaliszissiou

Christmas coming.
A nice blender tutorial from Andrew Price
I found it interesting, a good presentation of Sapling Tree blender editor.
Some particles system
Color indexing and some PPros (compositor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yd7ad08e54

pilou

Happy new year!
This guy is very good in Blender and speeching!
A real entertainer!

michaliszissiou

Bisect tool in blender
http://www.blendernation.com/2013/11/28/quick-tip-creating-stones-with-the-bisect-tool-part-1/

michaliszissiou

A wonderful Blender presentation.
Have fun, it is a 2:20 hours video.

Rich O Brien

Happy 20th Birthday to Blender.

I had version 1.6 at one point but wasn't until 2.4 that I started to get my head around it.

pilou

Active Morphing by François Grassard aka CoyHot with Blender!

Morphing result:

Screencast :

PS
in the past was existing WinMorph by Debugmode in 2D! (free)

pilou

Not yet the same than Sketchup but...that is the beginning!
ArchiMesh

michaliszissiou

Many ways to skin a cat Pilou.
I would try a different and simpler way for the job.

I wonder, what we could do for a cornice on the ceiling.
Extrude following a path somehow?
It can be done.
But not quite creative.
What about using the inset tool of blender?

What I'm trying to say. Different apps, different workarounds.