@unknownuser said:

I really enjoy seeing this types of work...makes me want to learn Unity!

There Are a lot of tutorial out there for Unity. I learn a lot from tutorial on youtube.

@unknownuser said:

No Youtube video of the game ?

One of my beta tester record this and then I Upload them

@unrealviz said:

Hi, nice, I like the nightmare one. Some more screens from the game maybe?

Here some other ScreenShot from the game.

@iichiversii said:

Well done, looks great,
I'm currently using sketchup and unity to develop games also, you can find some of my work here http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=333&t=47572
You may also consider using blender to weld all verts and remove all duplicates, very easy work flow and only takes a few secs

I used blender before but I can't get the scale of the model right. I don't know witch step that I did wrong. Maybe I'm Spoiled by how easy SketchUp is. I Can't relay on sketchUp for modeling organic object because it lack the tool like animation ridging and weight painting. Blender Is a powerful tool build by the community I'm heavily consider using it.
By The Way. I like the space look in your Third Post. I wonder how you made them?

This the game that I made for my final Essay to get my bachelor degree. The game made in unity3d and the 3d model made in sketchUp free. This is a space fighter simulation game. The game is completed a while back, currently I'm waiting to defend the essay in front of the lecturer.

There are four player ship with unique performance and ability.
here are the first sketchUp output picture off all the ship.

Since I use sketchUp free, I can't import directly to usable file in unity3D (Collada exporter didn't work well). To cheat that, first I export the model as Collada from sketchUp then convert them again to fbx file using Autodesk FBX converter. It work like a charm the model scale and size just perfect in unity. But there are some issue with inverted axis on mirrored object and also with independent shape on a flat surface. Since it quite difficult to adjust the axis after the model imported to unity axis, its better to adjust the axis inside sketchUp.

Here are player ships that imported in unity.
First is Phanter Available at the start to new player.

Second is Phuma Available after perfect first mission.

Third is Raylight Available after perfect third mission.

Last is Nightmere Available after perfect last mission or the 5th mission.

The player can change the color of the ship missile and gun they carried for the mission.

for the animation I mostly use script like turning and the thruster effect.

Here a screen shot during mission

The game is not that good, 3d model mostly didn't use texture just playing with material.

I can't get a good screen recorder to record the game, I did find good one "Fraps" but it's not free trial version only record 30 second.

I'll ask the permission to upload the game before I defend the essay. If i can't get the permission I'll just have to wait after I defend them.

Oh, I forgot, The Game Title Is "Zero Velocity".

One of my beta tester record this and then I Upload them

This what my doctor ordered, a full dose of axes tools. When making game model in sketchUp I always adjust the axes to fill the game need but i just can't get it centered on the object fast enough. This plugin sure cured that problem.

@aerilius said:

Please be caaaarrreful with what you are trying out! There is currently no way to convert binary applications into platform-independent web-applications (that use pure javascript).

Thank you for the warning.

By The way, if we run task manager will we see in the process tab that SketchUp.exe running?

@unknownuser said:

Very nice Fabiazz, Im guessing there is alot of Copy and paste involved seeing as the structure is Cylindrical?

Love the City as well nice render

Thank you and Yes, A lot copy paste using array and component. I follow your WIP on Tug Boat and Hopper Dredger "Crane" They are great reference on sketch up Work flow.

Number Of Edges 1,19 million.
My SketchUp already Crash 2 time during modeling. And it still half way to go.
I don't know how many edges and how many crashes I have to endure when I finished this.

Diameter of the sky city is 6,60 KM
High still negotiable since the top part not finished yet.

Right now I'm Preparing the lay out for the Slum and mechanic station at the lower level.

@unknownuser said:

Very cool work!

Thank you

Progress on Sky Metropolis.
Building Air Port Level and Put Some detail on it.

At this Point I hit 1 mill edges (I never hit this many before). thanks to component and layer, modeling at this size is not an obstacle any more and the size of the file still under 3 MB. Compare to Sky Orca with only around 212.000 edge with file size 10 MB because of the number of same component is significantly lower.

I also notice a behavior of the sketchup That I never experience before. When Moving a camera around model some distance components are turn into box.

Yet The time taken to export them to Kerkythea is drastically increase it even longer if i don't export them as instance. Resizing or rotating some component is hell.

Well Because sketchup only support single core process I decide to do some side rendering during adding those detail.

Even tough in my Task manager showing all 2 core active, the process is split between two core which is 50% 50% on each core. Last time i install Sketchup 8 only 1 core active at 100%, is it an update sketchUp or Windows. maybe new process management by windows for handling non-multi core support program

@karinagm said:

I loved that orca!!!
Please, show us some SU shots (with wires if possible).

Actualy I put them in Google 3d Warehouse. The size around 10 MB at this link http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=3b5496717d0897a82f8af30e2febc8e8

But if You still want it here

@lapx said:

Only 10 months!Impressive!

Sketchup is addictive once i learn them i want to learn more. fortunately i have a lot of spear time

@kiranl said:

What happens if there is some more weight at the back because of the engine then there is in the front with the ropes being in the middle? hehe.

Nah it looks awesome. ^^

Maybe putting the rope in the middle not a good idea. since i mention this more suitable for cargo the rope just in the way.

Sky Metropolis

This time I'll try to model a city in the sky.

Kinda impossible how many time i look at it. the buoyancy off all of all those helium will never enough to keep the structure suspended in air.

Without anchor or mechanism to drive them they will easily drifted by the wind.

Oh well. I'm Thinking to much.

This city is contain of three level top is the main city, the middle is for sky harbor for airship parking zone. the lower level is slum and some housing and station for the city mechanic to make sure the the city is in the sky.
There is also peek level that not finished yet.

Here the clay render after the city added

WIP Airship 4 (Color and Material Test)

The Mostly Done only need some detail in several part and still missing fuel tank and control mechanism detail .
But This Work Is Post Pone for now. I'll Try Model Something else.

WIP Airship 3

Haven't much of a progress, just added an air rudder, and internal frame.
Wood Color does not match up wit the engine color. Maybe better if it's painted in different color.
Still Figure out How to attached the balloon and the ship, time to look some reference in Internet.

And This is Sky Orca Google 3D Warehouse link http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=3b5496717d0897a82f8af30e2febc8e8

@unknownuser said:

Awesome stuff, I really like that Orca, Are you using Kerkythea for renders?

Thank you, And yes I use Kerkythea for the renders.

@dale said:

Yes, welcome aboard. Enjoying your work, and looking forward to more.

Thank you

WIP Airship Part 2

The capacity for the airship is 2-3 person yet it more suitable for solo medium distance flight carrying light cargo.

The Engine Does not seams right. The front like a jet engine while the back like a propeller engine in reverse position.

Time to figure out how to attach the balloon and the ship.

SketchUp is very addictive program that I ever encounter (Except from game). It easy to use and fast to understand.
It's almost 10 month since I start use this program. The more I explore the program the more I realize this program capable of doing something extraordinary.

At first I model A cockpit of a space ship but discontinued afterward becouse the lack of program knowledge at that time. A bit dificult but somehow I manage to do it

After Watching some video on youtube I understand the program a little bit better and start modeling a Normandy SR2 from mass effect 2 game.

After that my brother suggest me to find plugins to ease up the work. And I find this wonderful Forum. This forum elevate my knowledge to whole new level. and start working some more daring model.

After that for over two month I get distracted by an online game, I'm not even touching sketchUp in this period of time. The Darkest moment in my sketchup history.
Then after that period end. I start to get my grip at sketchup again and start modeled new thing.

Sorry For the number of picture and the boring story.
http://pangeranberbajuputih.deviantart.com/
Recently My DeviantART account full of WIP and make my Gallery seams to unorganized. so I'll move them to this site. Hopefully some one don't mind.

WIP Airship
My first WIP is an Airship. Start with the balloon

I miscalculate the the poly on the and my application start to slow down. Probably from the rope and fake knot, They should be put on different layer before any progress can be made.

@unknownuser said:

Here is a reusable spaceplane that might one day get built. We can but hope!

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/skylon.html

Should be fairly easy to model.

Well that is truly something. It's quite easy to model indeed. But some how it's just feel like a flying fuel tank. Only little place for payload or passenger. It seams space age will remain si-fi for a moment being.

@unknownuser said:

nice model

Thank you

Here is after render in kerkythea and some post processing.

model at google warehouse (about 1MB or so) http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=293ef2f68889d73533d2b813c4ecef6f

This space ship actually created when i just started using Sketchup. After facing several obstacle i dropped it. After learning Sketchup better, I decided to resume the work.

Got a lot influence from ME2 Normandy SR2. The tail fin modeled after sepia.

I think thomthom Is right.
Your image size is far to big to be imported to SU, this is the piece of preview from some cut piece of the picture you provided when i put the in su
It's not as blurry as your screen shot

You can enable maximum texture in Window->Preference->on OpenGL tab, check the maximum texture size.
you will get a warning but don't worry to much about it since you need them only once for modeling it's base. you can turn them off later.

If not, then I think The problem mostly caused by your image size resolution is to small. You can use most basic image editing program to enlarge and then sharpen them to reduce the blur.

You both right. after i scale the working file 10 time over the face is close down. thank you.

I think I'll need to read the forum more before asking another question.

Why I didn't notice this plugin before. This will fix all my unsolidity problem. Great work!

I don't know if this is categorize as small, but i usually work on large scale at start and when finished i scale them to the size i need (if the work doesn't require accuracy).

Surely there is no sword that big.

Recently after google Sketchup 8 are out. I realize there is a new set of tool called solid tool. For free user only outer shell are available. For me it's a change to check the model I created solid or not. Since most of my model is not solid, I decide to create new model with solid in mind. I check every component solidity before and after merging them together. Everything work well for some time But at the last part, just when I about to finish, The solids that I merged is not a solid anymore. After spend some time checking, there was a surface missing after the merging.
I undo the action and repeat the merging proses, and still the same surface missing. I don't know is it happen to all or just mine.

I also upload the problematic file.
Solid Amatyst3.skp