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Free Sketchup to Truespace .... About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Free Sketchup to Truespace .... // Roundtable 1  |   Order by default Post by RAYMAN // Jun 22, 2008, 2:04pm RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Well many of you will know Sketchup and most will know that nativly it does not support export in the free version but only few people know that there is a plugin that someone wrote and is now in a new version ! So you can export to Truespace. Sketchups component system is awsome and those of you who have used it know how easy windows can be placed and moved around and arrayed mulitple copied on the walls. There are many free windows and doors in the warehouse and you can build your own components and store them. You can import via 3ds from Truespace and use everything as component with snapping and you can import with the object plugin ! ALL FOR FREE ! You can export in groups or use the plugin bomb to explode these groups. There is a plugin for Kerkythea that works well with the free version as almost all plugins do ! Vue imports SKP files too ! Its easy to use and learn and you build up houses in minutes rather then hours ! Here is a screenshot of the model of a house that was built in 5 minutes and imported with the normal obj importer ! http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2007/01/wavefront-obj-exporter.html http://www.smustard.com/script/Bomb HTH Peter Post by Burnart // Jun 22, 2008, 2:22pm Burnart Total Posts: 839 Cool. Thanks for pointing this out. Post by RAYMAN // Jun 22, 2008, 2:30pm RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Yeah thats realy cool ! But for all who render in Kerkythea and do modeling in Truespace here is a link to do it the other way round ! You import into Sketchup ( from Truespace as a component ) via 3ds and export through the SUtKt plugin read this for further reading..... http://www.alexschreyer.net/cad/rendering-sketchup-models-with-kerkythea/ ALL WITH THE FREE VERSION OF SKETCHUP ! Peter Post by RAYMAN // Jun 22, 2008, 4:27pm RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 dont foreget that its the best way to keep polygons down when you build up big sities with many real geometry windows etc. Its very economic ! Here you see hundreds of real window without instancing all in workspace ! All with textures ! PLUS DONT FORGET YOU CAN ALWAYS USE THE TIME LIMITED TRIAL OF THE PRO VERSION TO EXPORT WHAT YOUVE BUILT IN THE FREE VERSION.. Peter Post by jamesmc // Jun 22, 2008, 5:02pm jamesmc Total Posts: 2566 If you have photoshop CS3 Extended, you can also import kmz (Sketchup 4) and make some nice textures or your buildings. :) Post by JimB // Jun 23, 2008, 8:11am JimB Total Posts: 341 I came across this tutorial http://alexvaqp.googlepages.com/sketchupblender Ultimate Unwrap is useful too :) Post by RAYMAN // Jun 23, 2008, 8:14am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Jim ! i cant open the link ! Would love to see that as there is quite some possible using free software ! Peter Post by JimB // Jun 23, 2008, 8:16am JimB Total Posts: 341 Hi RAYMAN That was my fault I posted a bad link,try again it should work. Post by RAYMAN // Jun 23, 2008, 8:23am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Thats cool jim ! Thanks a lot thats very usefull information !:D Have to try that out ! Peter Post by JimB // Jun 23, 2008, 8:25am JimB Total Posts: 341 Thats cool jim ! Thanks a lot thats very usefull information !:D Have to try that out ! Peter It works very well I used UUnwrap3d instead of Bl*nder. Post by RAYMAN // Jun 23, 2008, 9:22am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Yes Jim b I did that too because I didnt get the Blender script to work it always says it cannot find file .... needs a link ! But UUnwrap works smoothly ! Great find !:D another thing that I cant understand Caligari said they would support full Collada and it DOES NOT IMPORT 1.4 dae ! Peter Post by JimB // Jun 23, 2008, 9:27am JimB Total Posts: 341 Yes Jim b I did that too because I didnt get the Blender script to work it always says it cannot find file .... needs a link ! But UUnwrap works smoothly ! Great find !:D another thing that I cant understand Caligari said they would support full Collada and it DOES NOT IMPORT 1.4 dae ! Peter Regarding Bl*nder if you re-install Python 2.5 the importer does actually work probably a bug. Unfortunately I also found the TS dae importer did not work.

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