Not to get off topic but.benman08 wrote:Yep pretty bad. I tell you what i tell other sketchup users, USE sketchup for building modeling and architectural building only! Sketchup isn't meant for anything else but that.
I Disagree look at the Sketchup homepage.It has is own page dedicated to guess what.... Game Development! I'll even quote it for you.
Sorry, but I have been to @Last(The people who made SketchUp) SketchUp training and I can tell you that this program is not limited to Architecture.SketchUp's Homepage wrote:Game Development
Few industries are hotter right now than video gaming. Whether the games are Web-based or created for popular video game units, the race is always on to get the latest and greatest games to market. We didn't exactly set out to be a level design tool (in fact, truth be told, we didn't know what 'level design' was) but game designers are rapidly discovering SketchUp.
We keep hearing that SketchUp works great for level design because it's fast, accurate, really easy-to-use, and, well, just plain fun. Game designers tell us that SketchUp enhances their creativity and is a great way to quickly communicate concepts to the rest of the team.
We clearly don't have all the answers yet but we're getting there with enthusiastic support of the gaming community. Here's what some people are saying...
"Since adopting SketchUp into our game design process we have been able to start working in 3D at the earliest stages: in most cases, completely skipping the need to work out designs on paper first. Working in this way allows us to communicate level designs faster and in a way that our artists can quickly interpret for in-game use. In short, SketchUp is changing the way we design our games."
Giles Tuck, Argonaut Games PLC
"The sketchy design aspects of this program are enough on their own to convince me to buy it. The images SketchUp produces enhance any design document and provide fantastic visual communication with other people. Add to this the ability to easily link with Max and you almost have the ultimate Level Design tool'.
Billy Thomson, Lead Designer, Real Time Worlds
SketchUp and Game Development:
SketchUp is fast becoming the tool of choice for level design, where exporting data to FBX and OBJ formats for downstream visualization and modeling are important.
For Maya users, OBJ is as important to most folks as 3DS for general data transfer so we've given our OBJ Export full "first-class-citizenship" by integrating it into SketchUp in our most recent release.
With our FBX Export (Filmbox), you can easily get your SketchUp models into the graphics pipeline for previz and special effects planning work, working easily with Alias' Motionbuilder and other applications.