SketchUp 8!

[-Keith]

How bout it believers, is the sky falling?
http://sketchup.google.com/download/

My testing indicates it works fine if you correct the path when installing V-Ray but I am still going at it. Anyone else who's playing with it let me know how it works for you.

[teofas]

Re: SketchUp 8!

i just hope someday sketchup can support millions of polygons like other softwares such as max, maya, etc......then for me sketchup will be perfect,...that day ill go crazy and make a party inviting everyone on this forum, hehehe,...but ill keep dreaming :-\

[40th]

Re: SketchUp 8!

i just hope someday sketchup can support millions of polygons like other softwares such as max, maya, etc......then for me sketchup will be perfect,...that day ill go crazy and make a party inviting everyone on this forum, hehehe,...but ill keep dreaming :-\

::Thumbs up:: ;D funny...
but at the same time it's sad :-[

[camionero]

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cant find anything that say Sk8 on that link just the 7 pro ....

[patplace_cg]

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go to google official web page. http://sketchup.google.com/
sketchup 8 is there now

[davidmurphy991]

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Nice one,

Have you come across any nice features yet.

Dave

[camionero]

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THEy just add those tools SOLID TOOLS !!!! nothing else????
not a 5 % improvement on performance ???
look toolbars or something????
god they took like 2 years !

[dkendig]

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They supposedly fixed some of the stuff behind the scenes that we could possibly use. Considering how broken those things were in the past though... I don't know if we can trust them yet. I also don't know if using those things would really improve our product any. The real stuff we wanted (like the ability to rename a material for instance) didn't make it in to SketchUp 8... ::cries::

[robert111]

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link to dowload trial sketchup pro 8


http://translate.googleusercontent.c...u4Jv0bIfz3HCKg

[thomthom]

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i just hope someday sketchup can support millions of polygons like other softwares such as max, maya, etc......then for me sketchup will be perfect,...that day ill go crazy and make a party inviting everyone on this forum, hehehe,...but ill keep dreaming :-\

Not going to ever be able to compare SU against Max and Maya etc.
Max and Maya require you to render the model, while SU provides realtime sketchy looking viewports with shadows. That and the infering engine prevents you from stuffing millions of polygons into SU. SU was designed to be a sketch tool - it's all about choosing the right tool for the right job.

[thomthom]

Re: SketchUp 8!

They supposedly fixed some of the stuff behind the scenes that we could possibly use. Considering how broken those things were in the past though... I don't know if we can trust them yet. I also don't know if using those things would really improve our product any. The real stuff we wanted (like the ability to rename a material for instance) didn't make it in to SketchUp 8... ::cries::

Yea - I'm eager to test out the new observers. Should have the chance soon.
As for material and layer setters. That is my next crusade - I'll be on it like a ,.... something really persistant ..... o_O ya!

[thomthom]

Re: SketchUp 8!

THEy just add those tools SOLID TOOLS !!!! nothing else????
not a 5 % improvement on performance ???
look toolbars or something????
god they took like 2 years !

Surprised? Same old story from SU7. Though SU7.1 was a much bigger improvement IMO with the performance increase.
Google bought SketchUp because it fit their needs - and I do think that Google's agenda for 3D data is of big influence to the feature development of SketchUp. We saw how it was with SU6 to SU7 - I was not surprised by SU8 and I don't think SU9 will wow people either. SU's wow times is probably at an end a long time ago.
It remains an easy 3D app with shallow learning curve where most of it's features are available for free.

[edonk]

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Not having improved UV tools is a bit of a disaster for SU8. *sigh*

[dkendig]

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yeah, I really wish they had better uv mapping.

[teofas]

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Not going to ever be able to compare SU against Max and Maya etc.
Max and Maya require you to render the model, while SU provides realtime sketchy looking viewports with shadows. That and the infering engine prevents you from stuffing millions of polygons into SU. SU was designed to be a sketch tool - it's all about choosing the right tool for the right job.

I allready know that tom : but i "wish" that it would be diferent, i wish we can have the best of the 2 worlds, a very easy to learn modeler, capable of handle millions of polygons.

that day ill go crazy and make a party inviting everyone on this forum

by the way...your not invited tom :P