@kwistenbiebel said:
My wish:
A rewritten solid Sketchup core, adapted to nowadays technology and conceived as an open source platform.
Plugins could still be commercial. Google can decide to make their own plugins or let 3td parties develop them.
Those could be called 'apps' and sold in an I-tunes kind of web system. (game development apps, modeling apps, rendering apps,3D physics simulation,3D scientific apps,3D medical apps, etc..etc...)
Google is doing it with Android and chrome OS, so why not an open 3D platform?
Hasn't been tried before....might work!
Besides the commercial plugins, maybe even some obscure ones? I can imagine someone fixing the carmack shadow bug as an underground project
This all might be the best solution for Sketchup to have a future.
Let's face it: Sketchup as a tool for Google Earth won't make it. Nowadays there is better technology (ask Thomthom) to get a 3D world built than doing it manually. Besides, it would take a 1000 years to get the world populated with 3D manually.
And I don't see Google engaging a market they don't know anything about, which is the CG, graphical and architectural world.
Producing SU as a solid open source 3D platform might prove to be a viable option and could open '3D' up in ways google didn't even think of.
Time for Google to take a chance and innovate.
That would be cool, especially they can fix the clipping bug in large models that are more then 6000' in diameter.