Turns out I have been living under a rock and this one totally missed me by until yesterday evening.

Whilst I share the cautious optimism shared by the far more experienced users on the forum, I cannot understate the psychological impact of the move for many casual and professional users across many industries.

• The Trimble website, is horrible and reminds me of lots of proprietary software pages that don't have the same polish as AutoDesk, or for that matter, the relatively friendly Google Sketchup website.
• Trimble's corporate video is uninspiring and sends out the wrong message to the millions of users who already use SU.

I won't comment on feature development or further 3rd party integration, but the simple fact of the matter is, that SU's user base exploded because of Google's rather straight forward front end and friendliness and is integral to it's appeal.

I hope someone from Trimble is listening, because they won't have many opportunities to make a good first impression to the vast majority of SU users, myself included, who have never even heard of them.

@tridem - probably something like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Upsala_Glacier_3.jpg
and this http://my-blackberry.net/wallpapers/42/m/Ice_Cave%2C_Spencer_Glacier%2C_Alaska.jpg.

I want to get across the sheer monolithic monumentality of the wall itself (700 feet high 300 miles long!), which is why I'll be refining the block work so it's slightly smaller but obviously much larger than a person would be able to lift.

Thanks Charly, I'll look into that particular preset; I can do a bunch more post-processing in Photoshop when I get a half decent render out...

Hi all,

I'm currently working on a piece from the HBO/Popular book series Game of Thrones as a present for a friend. For those of you who watch the show or read the books, I'm eventually working towards a view of the Wall looking towards the Shadow Tower. So far I've been experimenting with Protude.rb and Greeble 2 to create a huge monolithic wall several hundred feet high made of ice. I'll be refining the process over time, as well as adding more details.

My question is; has anyone done any realistic looking ice (more like glacier solid ice rather than translucent ice) in Kerkythea? I'd be particularly interested in materials settings.

Thanks!

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665695/watch-this-3-d-portrait-of-einstein-magically-morph-into-marilyn-monroe#8

Modelled in SU, before being 3D Printed. Enjoy and Merry Xmas all!

@irwanwr said:

have you tried to ask in the Kerkythea's forum?
i use Kerkythea too, but obviously not as long and as well as you do.
if you don't mind i'd like to ask about those people on the image.
are they 2D or 3D components?

I tried Kerkythea's forums and got a half decent tutorial, but it led to my machine crashing. The image you see above was about half way through my post processing in Photoshop, so the figures are actually shopped in rather than components. You can see the finished image at http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=41658.

In the end, I warped the chainlink in place, but would still like to resolve the issue properly.

@tomsdesk said:

I took that png, created a void mask, made the mask 1 pixel wider, then erased the chainlink thinner...and it looks better, to me, in SU and rendered.

Hi tomsdesk,

Do you have any screenshots?

Cheers!

• J

@gaieus said:

@swedishnitro said:

And to think I actually got laughed at architecture school for using SU.

Just tell them to produce anything comparable in the same time. Sit down side by side to two computers with the same task. The idiot having laughed previously will have the grin frozen on his face.

(Ah well, I did this with a client once when he had a phone call and left for about 20 minutes. I built his design during that time - and the "competitor" had previously worked on it for two weeks)

Well I produced this: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0QJyr1PBXN8/R3OMq2wYXpI/AAAAAAAAAg4/blNEiDJO9A0/s800/Alex_Explode.jpg

'How did you do that? Rhino?'
'SketchUp!'

I personally believe architecture schools across the world should be teaching SU to students by week 2.

Just watched the video for Advanced Camera tools. Totally blown away. And to think I actually got laughed at architecture school for using SU.

Awesome, I didn't realise a lot of RIFT was developed in Sketchup! A conversation I keep having with people (particularly architects) is that they feel SU is a children's programme, which it's anything but. Seeing amazing stuff like this just gives me more answers to take on the naysayers. Keep up the great work.

Well, this is my first night time render. I've tried doing them just in Photoshop in the past, but the lighting is never right. I spent some time trying to figure out the best way to light the image in Kerkythea and finally figured it out after watching a tutorial on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex1qhpX3NWU.

Everything else is Photoshop. I've sourced various family members and generic Filipino guys as the project is located in the Philippines.

About the project:

A corner lot in a working class area of Manila in the Philippines is designed to increase social and economic intensity by placing 3 separate businesses in an incredibly tight floor footprint with private residential above. Filipino building laws have been exploited to maximise use of floor space by blurring the inside and outside together. To allow maximum ventilation and light, a chainlink facade wraps around the entire building profile, allowing fabric banner advertising to substantially increase economic revenue whilst acting a a sunscreen. The chainklink has the added advantage of acting as a buffer to flying debris in the Philippines' annual cyclone season.

Cheers!

• J