So I've been thinking recently of exporting a "rendered" animation from google sketchup, and I need to know the potential when it comes to 2 points:

1. Is there a certain plugin/software/rendering engine that can handle rendering animations?

2. What kind of animations does it support? Camera movements or in model animations?? Because I need to create waterflow animation "similar to particles works in 3DsM" and I have no clue whether it could be done or not?

Thanks in advance your replies are much appreciated.

Well, I didn't know where else I could post this,

So I'm a student in architecture school and I've been recently introduced to this place,
And I have to admit that I wouldn't have reached 15% of what I've reached if it hasn't been for the help of this place,
So thank you so much for helping me...
And special thanks to Fredo, TIG and Thomthom, your amazing plugins really made this software better...
I wish I could do anything in return for you..
Well, here's an image of the final product, I know it isn't great but it was very good in comparison to my other work.
Again, thanks a lot

Great! Thanks for the info TIG... It will be taking quite some time though since I'll be have to process each window on it's own but it should work...

Thanks everyone for responding...
indeed latticemaker was the answer to my problem, thanks TIG for that..
However, I encountered another problem, it's probably been posted before and I did search for it...
As per the attachment, I created a smooth mesh and resulted into those faces, in which I want to create a lattice,
However, I want to make the lattice into four edges, not three... I've been reading in the difference between triangulated and quad faces but I didn't find any successful methodology to make the lattice as such...
any help would be appreciated, thanks a lot!

thomthom I tried that, didn't import anything, I am also keen on generating something that isn't completely random, I have a certain topography.
TIG this could work assuming it works on non coplanar surfaces, I'll try that

Thank you both for replying.

I am a former user of Blender, they have introduced this ANT landscape modelling engine through which you can generate randomized landscape terrain resulting into something like the attached image...
My question is if there is some sort of a plugin that could generate something similar? And not necessarily from scratch, I could have smooth topography generated from lofting surfaces or importing from Google earth, but I want to add more realistic detailed terrain to it...

Thanks in advance!

Hi mitcorb, thanks for responding...
Let me explain this on the attachment
Yes, what I want to create is something like a spaceframe truss "a curtain wall to be precise" and I am aware of the latticizer plugin, the thing about latticizer is that it only works on coplanar surfaces and my mesh is deformed, so I have to select each surface individually, turn it into a group and latticize it... My question was is there a way to make a script that automatically runs these steps for me, going through all the surfaces?

Thanks!

Hi everyone,
Excuse me for being such a noob, I am no programmer and I have never written scripts before,
However, I'll assume that what I want to make is quite simple...
I want to develop a script that select each face in the model individually, and then put that face in a group, then latticize that group...

Any ideas on how to develop such thing?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Yes, that's the one.
Anyways, I've tried something else, instead of restoring it to default I loaded "sketchup default" preset, it looks very similar now except that I can't get over that sepia tone.

Sorry, I should have posted that before...
Says here version is RS 1.5 something.