Arcwalde In reply to AeoMayo [2019-07-03 00:23:39 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, pretty much the same here. People give me the crazy eye and wonder how I'm even managing to do this with Sketchup in the first place. I've been told to use Blender myself, but I just can't wrap my head around it. Hey, so long as I can import to blender and rig it in the future I'm good, :V

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AeoMayo In reply to Arcwalde [2019-07-03 01:05:55 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I'm in the same boat. Blender just does my noggin in, at this point all I use it for is its myriad importing tools people make for it.
Say, your renders look pretty nice, what do you do those in?

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Arcwalde In reply to AeoMayo [2019-07-03 02:49:40 +0000 UTC]

Up until now I've been using an old copy of vray for sketchup, but I'll be abandoning that. For any future model I'll be using Sketchfab and taking pictures using that. Allows for real-time rendering and has a screenshot tool to take high resolution screenshots (with or without a transparent background) of the models I upload into Sketchfab.

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AeoMayo In reply to Arcwalde [2019-07-03 03:40:22 +0000 UTC]

Oooh, Sketchfab, that's a thing alright. Always such neat stuff, uhh.. buried under several trillion tri 3D scans of sculptures and people.  
I should look into that, I keep trying to use the default Sketchup """render""" (if you can even call it that..) or trying to shove it through 3DS Max with shoddy results because I dunno what I'm doing, someone tried to teach me render setup for Blender but like everything else in that thing it's just... Huh?? Speak English!

Thanks for telling me though, appreciate it.

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Arcwalde In reply to AeoMayo [2019-07-03 10:31:49 +0000 UTC]

Yeah. I use Blender to make sure my model exports to *.OBJ fine (No reverse faces, no backface materials, everything looks proper like it does in sketchup), then I export the OBJ to Sketchfab, where I can adjust all the 3D rendering settings in real time. Definitely superior to a lot of the other rendering and showcasing tools out there.

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Arcwalde In reply to augbon9 [2019-06-02 20:02:25 +0000 UTC]

I use Sketchup to make my stuff.

As for any tips, not sure to recommend. Definitely brush up on ship knowledge, with regards to how certain parts function and come together. Most of my ships really lack any element of realism in that regard, though I tried addressing that in some later models like the submarine (to a very small degree!). References also help, just to see how some ships are shaped and replicating that shape to get a feel for it.

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augbon9 In reply to Arcwalde [2019-06-03 18:11:51 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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Arcwalde In reply to toppa23 [2019-05-19 13:44:37 +0000 UTC]

Sketchup, www.sketchup.com/

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toppa23 In reply to Arcwalde [2019-05-19 22:41:09 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much .................... you are very kind

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Arcwalde In reply to tkdrobert [2019-04-03 23:48:22 +0000 UTC]

I use Sketchup.

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tkdrobert In reply to Arcwalde [2019-04-04 00:00:38 +0000 UTC]

I’m going to look into it.

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Arcwalde In reply to bjmaxvin67 [2019-02-17 13:15:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks much!

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Arcwalde In reply to GuyverMasterOmega [2019-02-17 13:16:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Arcwalde In reply to augbon9 [2018-05-15 23:53:07 +0000 UTC]

Nope, just come up with random story settings in my head and design things for the most part. The only really persistent setting would be my Frame Crash stuff.

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augbon9 In reply to Arcwalde [2018-05-16 04:29:48 +0000 UTC]

okay

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Arcwalde In reply to AnimeCitizen [2018-05-15 23:55:53 +0000 UTC]

Unfortunately I'm already pursuing my own project (Which I've already missed several personal deadlines on) for an RP forum, so I don't want to divide my attention any more than it currently is. Sorry!

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