Posts made by Mariyan-Hristov

Thanks a lot for the links ! ely862me your videos were incredibly helpful for my sketchup studies.I hope I post some of my polygon designs soon

Thanks for the links! I have watched all of those videos in the past. I learned a lot about low polygon modeling from them. But since I visited the 3D Warehouse, I started asking myself “What were the learning sources of all those amazing vehicle modelers?” .I searched for vehicle modeling tutorials in Google, but I didn’t find much. That is why I decided to open this thread, in case I’m missing something important

Hey guys I was wondering can you give me any interesting tutorials about modeling? I’m into vehicle designs – cars, tanks, helicopters, airplanes etc. I looked in the Tutorials thread and YouTube but most of the tutorials there deal with the architectural aspects of SketchUP.

Thank you guys! Tomorrow I'll try to really explore this problem using all of your advices.I'm really gratefuller.

Thank you so much for the nice comments guys! Yes ken28875 , I totally agree on absolutely everything which you said and your feedback is really helpful to me.The sci-fi designs were my first ones, so that's why they look so unfinished, I just didn't know how to fix some problems in the modeling process.Right now I'm learning how to render and use textures, so I'm hoping that in the near future I will upload some even more finished pieces.Again, thank you so much guys !

Well If I have to be honest I didn't find a model which will be suitable as an example.I tried to recreate the problem and upload it.But I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't had this problem now.
Basically when I make a component : -> Flip Along -> Move tool + Shift and sometimes no mater how many times I try, the component is always several millimeters inside the other component or it doesn't touch it, and you can see that issue only if you zoom like crazy.This creates a problem because if I want to hid the line you can see a gap between the two components and if i try to delete those lines a face gets deleted as well.

Hey guys,
this is a problem I still struggle with.How do I finish a piece in which I used symmetry whiteout a huge line between the two components? If I try to hide the lines or explode the components and erase the line, there are always bugs.Because no matter how precise I try to glue together, one of them is always a little bit off and that creates holes in the model? Thank you !
PS: I apologize if I spam , I'm sure it's an easy fix.But I google searched it and I didn't find anything, I know I probably didn't google it right, but I can't waste any more time on the problem.

This is much more than I expected. Thank you soooo much guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you very much for the replies, I would like to use Sketchup for game design.
Here is my recent work :
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=54019
I basically don't know what I'm searching for, that's why I made the thread.I'm just in search of plugins which will allow me to make more curved objects like airplanes and cars and some plugins which will save me some time.Because very often I make something very complex for just 5 minutes in sketchup, after that I need to make something really simple and it takes 5 hours to work with the line tool and soften edges.

Hello everybody,
here are my first works in SketchUP.I look forward to get some feedback from you guys.I'm new to the program, so if you have any advice about plugins which will make my job easier or whatever advice you thing you should give me, please do !

EDIT : The thread was originally called "My first designs ;]" but since a year has passed I decided to rename it

Some aircraft with a retro feel

World War II vehicle used for traveling in underground tunnels

Some kind of Sci-Fi Police car

Exploratory vehicle

Hello everybody.I was wondering can you recommend me some useful plugins for game design?
Right now the only ones I use are "Tools on surface" , "Joint Push Pull" , "Round Corner" and "Fredo Scale". Thank you

Hello everybody, for the last 2 mounts I started using Sketchup.My models so far have certain complexity, since I make almost exact models of military vehicles.When I make tanks its no problem, but airplanes are pain in the ass, since Sketchup is not exactly the program for complex curves, I have to spend days making them with the pen tool and "soften edges". I was wondering can you give me any advice on any free plugins, I know Artisan can be a real help, but I can't afford it right now.Video tutorials would be very helpful too .Thank you!