@sus4 said:

too..

I agree... let this torture end!

Thank you for takng the time to produce this series of tutorials.

Good Work.

Hiya

You and others might find the following useful:

(www.blender3darchitect.com)

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@solo said:

I wanted to model the new bike but could not find good reference images, the ones I saw were done in the dark with just lights showing.

Animating it would be awsome however, with those lights and motion blur, it will be fantastic.

Use the force Luke, use the Force!

The Next Issue of 3DWorld will have a Tut on modeling the Tron Legacy Light Cycle, or Litcyycle as the Yanks call it [sorry could not resist...]. Not sure what App they'll be using though.

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Excellent work Sir!

Hiya

Me Like! Keep it up mate.

11zulu

Hiya All

On 3d Warehouse I found the following model:

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

(sketchup.google.com)

Within that page is a link to [using Google translate] :

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kolmanl.info%2Findex.php%3Fshow%3DSKETCHUP_TUT

for a tutorial on how to use Sketchup to model a Model Airplane by Ivo Mikac [I think!].

Enjoy

@unknownuser said:

Wow. Looking good!

I'm having trouble with boat hulls and compound curved surfaces in general. Do you know of any good tutorials for these?

Hiya ecofeco

You might want to look at these posts which might give you some pointers:

Making the Bismarck Hull by Toddy - Google 3D Warehouse
15 Aug 2007 ... This is a step by step way of how to make a complicated hull.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=deaeb2edc815e4bff04e240ce5ed248

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=25797&p=222048&hilit=hull+boat#p222048
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9652&p=60802&hilit=hull+boat#p60802

A bit off topic but intersting nonetheless
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=23461

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=26523

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3961

See Post #57 for link to Tutorial
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2542718
modeling a radio & speakers by same person
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRNS4W5CztU

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Hiya All

I have seen no mention of :

mitsuba renderer, those interested might want to head over to http://www.mitsuba-renderer.org/.

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Hiya

Good video walkthrus are available here:

2.50 Alpha 0 Tools Menu

Join my Blender 3D forum, where you can network with other Blender friends and get your Blender 3D questions answered. November 24, 2009 mar...

(blender3dvideos.blogspot.com)

and here is a series of walkthrus:

Blender 3D Videos

This blog contains the scripts for my Blender 3D YouTube videos. They're published as follows:

Buy The Blender 3D Cookbook as a book!

Buy the Blender 3D Cookbook for your iPad!

Buy the Blender 3D Cookbook for your Kindle!

(blender3dvideos.blogspot.com)

At the following is is a whole bunch of other walkthrus:

Blender Labrat

(blenderlabrat.blogspot.com)

The link below also has a simple walkthru as well:

http://www.totallyblended.com/

And on Vimeo, one for Maya users:

301 Moved Permanently

(www.vimeo.com)

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Mornings All

liam887, excellent modelling as usual.

You might want to head over to

Welcome to Bambam131's Bryce Site!

(www.bambam131.com)

its the site of David Robinson, he is a most excellent artist
using Bryce of all things to model, and I am sure will give
you a lot of inspiration as to what real world space craft
concepts would look like.

For Actual Concept images you might want to check out
secretprojects.co.uk, as they have a Space Forum.

Regards

Hiya Mate

You might want to check out these for tips:

Waves.ky » Drawing Foamies in Sketchup: Tips & Tricks

(waves.ky)

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=920416
pages 1 to 3 and also
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=920416&page=10

A step by step building a F4
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=947842

A step by step:
[you will have to signup to see the pictures!]
http://www.phlatforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=129

Another Step by Step - the best I can find so far is:
http://www.kartonbau.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=16473

Finally on Youtube something I will be trying out [as I'm a lazy so and so...]:
How to create 3D planes from 3-views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJi1nmVGKg

Good Luck!

Silver_Shadow, Thank You. Thanks for the model. Thanks for the description of your technique and finally thanks for taking the time.

Top notch. May I humbly suggest putting this up at CGTalk?

Bugger me I am in disppear... I was due to start on my 1st SU model & guess who steps up to steal my thunder but the Master.

Question: I suspect it weighed in at 25+megs what was the poly count? [How on earth did SU not crash!!!]

Very good work mate.

Hiya

Just had a thought which might help as a temporary workaround - copy the entire sketchup directory to another folder, delete all the scripts, except kerkythea export and opening the file, do the export from there.

It won't stop the problem from occuring in the main SU install but won't stop you working [except for the inconvience of having two SU inatall folders!], allowing you to wait till the answer emerges about what particular script is causing the problem.

A more long winded way is to do the above in copying the install folder, and delete the scripts one by one until the kerkythea exporter starts working again - you will however have to move the scripts back in in a randomized way to make sure the one removed before the exporter started working again was the only one causing problems!

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[apologies for the long winded reply to all]

Hello All,

Just to let you know that the latest issue of 3D World Magazine Issue 117,
has a page listing 6 ruby scipts that are must haves for Sketchup -
unfortunately I have left the magazine at work :-<, but it mentions in
the 1 page article:

FFD
FreeScale
LibFredo6
Tools On Surface
Joint Push Pull

and the 22 dollar Subdivision Ruby available elsewhere.

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What can i say? Supurb. Very Very Good