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Sketchup from Google

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Ok...as per recommendation, I went and got this program.

WOW!!!!!!

Took me all of about 3 minutes to figure this thing out.... the basics anyway. By minute 5, I was making very cool 3D buildings. By minute 10, I was doing some amazing 3d objects.

I am watching every video tutorial and studying everything so that I can start having some real fun with this.

If anyone is interested in trying to learn how to model...you have GOT to get this.. I have the full version of 3DS Max...and I now wish I had never wasted that money... Because this thing is totally 100% FREE!!!!!

I did in 10 minutes, what it took me a couple days to do in that program.

Ok...sorry to spam here about this...but I couldn't resist!!!! WOW!!!!

- Greg

Did I say WOW!!!!!
 
Hi Greg,

I agree, SketchUp is very easy to learn. I think for making scenery objects it is the easiest tool around. When you want to make complex animations or aircraft I think you still need the more complex tools though.
 
Unless you come up with support for animations!!! :D
Or Google makes it easier to make animations because I still have not figured out how to do it.
You can make animations in GSU but it turns out they are very different from what we call animations!
Hopefully I am wromg.
 
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From the book I have about SketchUp it seems animations are a sequence of different viewing angles for the object. Not sure how that could be translated to FS.
 
robystar said:
Unless you come up with support for animations!!! :D
Or Google makes it easier to make animations because I still have not figured out how to do it.
You can make animations in GSU but it turns out they are very different from what we call animations!
Hopefully I am wromg.
Click to expand...

Yes animations would be nice ... but not in SketchUp. Arno is right,... it only animation it does is viewing sequences.
 
search on sketchup plugin and see some interesting stuff.
videos for sketchup for dummies also good.

scott s.
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