@rspierenburg said:

Wow. That looks like quite a bit of work...can't wait to see it all finished. After looking at the animation I wouldn't doubt if it was done with Sketchup in the first place.

Rob

Could be, i think sketchup is perfectly for things like this, could take some shortcuts, like when it says 32x piece A, i could make piece A just 32x longer, but hey whats the fun in that hehe.
We dont have components for no reason. ^^

And it looks way cooler in some exploded view if its done like in the blueprints with all the pieces imo.

Well, not that complex, but it takes quite some time because there are no measures on the blueprints and there are alot of pieces left to make...

End result is already animated in 3D, from the makers where i bought the blueprint/assembly guide.
It can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhOAkFaWYEA

But from that end result i want to expand it with more pieces, but first the original with some minor adjustments.

@unknownuser said:

It's probably some fine work but when I see those imgshack thumbs I never click them. They load so slowly for me.

There's another member here who always uses imgshack and it makes for painful page loads.

Fair enough, resized them manually to an acceptable size and included them in my post instead of imageshack.

My first WIP on this forum, i found a website where you could buy blueprints for various vehicles, buildings etc.
And i thought it would be fun to buy one and model it instead of laser cutting it or making it out of wood.

Finished 11 pieces so far which make up the barrel and top mount, nothing special but funny to do.
Next would be the bottom part which is quite more complex, but will get there. ^^

The result would be a completely working product.

I just noticed while uploading that one part is a bit off, forgot to fix it for the render, but nothing more then 2 extrudes.

Results so far:

Any chance this ever might come out which works for round shapes?
Love to use this as subtile shadows over the textures, sort of lighting baking.

Warning the next content of "Hopper Dredger "Crane" might make you feel like a crappy modeler, continue at own risk.

hehe, Awesome work. ^^

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. ^^

The Sky Orca...Hubbahubba...

It seems to break VRay too, Funny plugin tho.

For two days of sketchup i think its a fine model already. ^^

Mirroring makes sense.. probly needed some sleep at the point of trying it out haha..
Thanks for the help.

Hi guys,

Today i installed Artisan as i see very nice results coming from it, now i have 15 days to decide to buy it so here it comes.

When i make cube and a part extruded, like a simple chair shape and then smooth it with 3 iterations, its not identical on both sides while it should be right?
As i didnt move the shape to one side or another?

And i see a crease tool, but cant find out how it works, anyone worked with this?
Hope these are not too dumb questions hehe, but what it "should" do just looks very usefull to me.

Regards,
Michael

I played arround with this one too, very nice altho very buggy too.

Some of my creations:

And a little video, dont know how to include youtube, but heres the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tv329_Oexo

Hi guys,

I know some of this "beginner" questions are bodering some of you, Still i hope to get a answer in the "newbie" subforum.

I was wondering if its possible to texture map in Sketchup it self, And how i can get a lower vertices/triangles count.

For example i have this small and simpel object:

http://kiranl.av-studio.eu/models/%5BKiraNL%5DDesignBenchStone.jpg

And the statistics of this one are:

Model Statistics

Vertices: 3901
Triangles: 2438
Groups: 4
Materials: 7
Joints: 0
Smoothing Groups: 1
Mins: 1.26 0.50 0.10
Maxs: 1.46 0.62 0.20
Center: 1.36 0.56 0.15

So i wonder if theres any function or something to lower this count?

Regards,
KiraNL

Yeah did think the same after posting it,I would rather hear some advice from someone with more exp too.
But deleted it as with was more foccussed on the safety of kids then skills i think.

You can import them if they are downloaded from 3DWarehouse.
You need to klik import and set the extensionbar on the right extension.
Then you need to click on the place where you want to put your model in your existing scene.

Hi guys,

Im using Vray for SU, Some of the things i made are:

Hope someone has some nice presets for Vray or something (or tips on configuration), Would be nice

For now i use default settings, But a white sky light and saturation 0.25.
And default textures which may be my biggest mistake, Anyone who can share textures in one .zip or.rar?

Regards

Hi guys,

I was wondering.. how?! can you guys render that nice.

For example:

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/schaalmodel2bsmallest.jpg

Its so nice, My models all look shitty if you see those.

One simple table i made for testing how it was rendered in my game.

http://kiranl.av-studio.eu/models/%5BKiraNL%5DDesignTableTribal.jpg

Like the texture on that table @ first pic, its so nice too, all mine look faded or unreal if i put one on it..

Any tips for a beginner?

Hi guys,

I was wondering, Is there such as a stand-alone renderer?
I do use Vray now, but its not stand alone.

I thought i had read somewhere (dont ask me where) that there will be a stand-alone version of it in the future?

Regards,
KiraNL

Hi guys,

I am using Vray for sketchup 6 but have some problems with the colors.
Instead of white, it showes up as blue??
I think its some kind of color overlay but not sure, Anyone knows how to fix this??

Regards,
KiraNL