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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

SU Animate 1.1 Win/Mac released


+ SU Animate 1.1 has been released. This is the Ruby program that automatically creates SketchUp scenes from a camera path making SketchUp animations very easy to create. What's new? For one thing 1.1 now supports the Mac OS. Another, there is now a 10 day eval version. Other things - a cool fillet ruby script to round the edges of your camera path.This simple application works inside SketchUp and automatically creates scenes that you can play as an animation in SketchUp or export to an AVI or MOV video file. SU Animate will create "key frame" like animations where SketchUp objects move along a path or walk thru type animations where the camera moves along a path. Also, the new version will create a batch of all the animation frames to individual .skp files. If you are currently using 1.0, the upgrade is free. Just download the eval. version from here, and then re-enter your serial number (if you are prompted for it).

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Build Your Campus 3D Competition


+ Build Your Campus 3D, an SketchUp Competition which just ended in the U.S. and Canada, has now reached Australia and New Zealand. Google invites SketchUp users among the students in any college or university in Australia and New Zealand, to show off thier campus in 3D. All you have to do is model your campus buildings in Google SketchUp, geo-reference them in Google Earth, and submit them through the SketchUp competition website. The winning teams will earn eternal online glory and an all-expenses-paid visit to our office in Sydney.
To enter the competition, you must be a college or university student in Australia or New Zealand, and you must be at least 18 years old. You can take on the project yourself or enlist the help of your classmates, and to do your best possible work, we suggest that you have a faculty advisor. The deadline for entries is October 31st, 2007.

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Introducing IRender and IRender Plus



+ A link to it, is lying on my desktop for quite some time,..... Although, we have put a news about it in our regular feature of CGnews Tid-bits , we think it need a little more attention. Well, IRender by Render Plus systems is Ray Tracing rendering system for Google’s SketchUp, and is based on AccuRender ( IQ: uses AccuRender rendering engine to create renderings). The reason which makes it note-worthy is that; IRender rendering solution gets fully integrated into SketchUp and all the IRender settings are saved automatically in your SketchUp model. This mean user can switch to other high-end application without a need to specify lights, reflections, glow etc. again. Besides, giving advantage of Fully integrated into , IRender offers other great features such as:
- It creates custom lamp fixtures.
- Create lamp component (bulb) of any wattage and beam angle.
- Create reflective materials easily.
- Create target lights on IRender lamps.
- Can create reflective mirror.
- Can render individual object in a 3d scene.
IRender plus is extended version of IRender with more advance features such as Radiosity, huge component library (500 fractal plants), convert AccuRender materials to SketchUp material and can create walkthrough animation of your SketchUp 3d Scene. Although the market of external rendering system for SketchUp is hoting up and big-wigs like both VRay & Maxwell render are now released for SketchUP, the IRender still remains worth a look......So guys have a look and give it a shot by downloading a fully functional 30 day Trial Version. Documentation as well as quick start guide is also available on Render plus website.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Vray for Rhino 4 and SketchUp



+ ASGVIS has released VRay for Rhino 4 and SketchUp. This release brings users various performance enhancements, an out of the box rendering solution, and many great V-Ray features to Rhino as well as SketchUp.
Vray for Rhino 4
V-Ray is a rendering plug-in that enables Rhinoceros users in all fields—from engineering and architecture to design and animation—to take advantage of the power and speed of the Chaos Group’s V-Ray rendering solution.
With VRay for Rhino, ASGVIS offers visualization professionals a state-of-the-art solution that generates high-quality images of unparalleled realism. “Top studios in all disciplines have relied on V-Ray for years to generate photorealistic images of outstanding quality,” says Corey Rubadue, ASGVIS Director. “With V-Ray for , we’re bringing this powerful, flexible, and affordable rendering solution to Rhinoceros users, enabling them to take full advantage of all that V-Ray has to offer.” Render Options are now easier than ever, with Default Render settings reflecting correct settings for Indirect Illumination, the VRay Sun, VRay Sky, and Sampling levels.V-Ray offers Rhinoceros users a robust set of global illumination and ray-tracing features that enable them to bring their ideas to life quickly, easily, and cost-effectively.
New Features Includes:
- VRay Sun and Sky
- VRay Physical Camera
- Distributed Rendering allowing a single image to be process over up to 10 machines
- Per Material GI, Background, Reflection, and Refraction
- Displacement
- Seperate Global Reflection and Refraction
- Dispersive Materials
- VRay Two-Sided Material for easy creation of thin translucency
- Easy Gamma Correction Controls
- More Efficient Memory Handling for Larger and More Complicated Scenes
- Expanded Functionality including the ability to set Memory Usage Limits
- Animation Support for Bongo as well as Rhino's Built-in Animation Tools

VRay for SketchUp
V-Ray is a rendering plug-in that enables SketchUp users to take advantage of the power and speed of the Chaos Group’s VRay rendering solution. With VRay for SketchUp, ASGVIS offers visualization professionals a state-of-the-art solution that generates high-quality images of unparalleled realism. “Top studios in all disciplines have relied on V-Ray for years to generate photorealistic images of outstanding quality,” says Corey Rubadue, ASGVIS Director. “With V-Ray for Sketch-Up, we’re bringing this powerful, flexible, and affordable rendering solution to Sketch-Up users, enabling them to take full advantage of all that V-Ray has to offer.” Render Options are now easier than ever, with Default Render settings reflecting correct settings for Indirect Illumination, the V-Ray Sun, V-Ray Sky, and Sampling levels. V-Ray offers users a robust set of global illumination and ray-tracing features that enable them to bring their ideas to life quickly, easily, and cost-effectively.
Vray for SketchUp Features Includes:
- True raytraced reflections and refractions
- Glossy reflections and refractions
- Area shadows (soft shadows). Includes box and sphere emitters
- Indirect Illumination (global illumination, global lighting). Different approaches include direct computation (brute force), and irradiance maps.
- Depth-Of-Field camera effect.
- Antialiasing. Includes fixed, simple 2-level and adaptive approaches.
- Caustics
- Fully multithreaded raytracing engine
- True HDRI support. Includes support of proper texture coordinate handling for both cubic and - angular maps. Map your images directly without distortions or cropping.
- Reusable irradiance maps (save and load support). Incremental sampling for fly-through animations.
- VRay Material Editor with Material Preview
- VRay Sun and Sky
- VRay Physical Camera
- Displacement
- Distributed Rendering allowing a single image to be process over up to 10 machines
- Per Material GI, Background, Reflection, and Refraction
- V-Ray Two-Sided Material for easy creation of thin translucency
- Animation Support

Go to www.asgvis.com for more details or to locate a reseller near you. You may also email at sales[@]asgvis.com. ASGVIS is a developer of state-of-the-art plug-ins, exporters, scripts for Autodesk 3ds Max, and 3D graphics applications. Among its flagship products is V-Ray for Rhino 3.0, a ray-tracing renderer for Robert McNeel & Associates’ Rhinoceros NURBS modeler that provides uncompromised image quality. Visualization professionals worldwide rely on ASGVIS solutions to bring their ideas to life creatively and cost-effectively.

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Friday, April 13, 2007

Maxwell Render Plugin For SketchUp 6.0


+ Next Limit Technologies is pleased to announce an updated version of the Maxwell Render plug-in for SketchUp 6 for Windows and OSX. Some impressive improvements and enhancements of Maxwell Render Plugin includes:
- Maxwell materials are now assigned to materials as opposed to geometry.
- Basic Maxwell material parameters can be specified directly inside SketchUp dialogs without the need to use MXM files.
- HTML-based panels for Maxwell Render parameters added: it is now much easier to set camera /environment / parameters for the scene.
- Support added to separate individual faces/groups/components sharing the same material into separate Maxwell Render objects.
- Maxwell Render camera field-of-view matches the field-of-view of the SketchUp camera if a Photographic Still 35mm camera is used in the Film&Stage plug-in of SketchUp.
- Names of individual materials are properly converted from SketchUp to Maxwell Render.
- Maxwell Render export help can be opened directly from the Ruby SketchUp plug-in.
- Fix: Normals were inverted when flipping components/groups – fixed.
- Fix: GMT offset was wrong on Intel Mac computers – fixed.
- Fix: multiple identical materials are no longer generated.
- Fix: AutoMXM support on OSX was fixed.
Next Limit’s CEO Victor Gonzalez said: “We are happy to release yet another update for the SketchUp plug-in, showing the unlimited potential of the Maxwell Render and SketchUp recipe. We will continue to build, integrate, and improve this combination even further.” Maxwell Render users can download the updated SketchUp plug-in from the regular customer download area. For more information and trial download visit www.maxwellrender.com !!

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Friday, February 02, 2007

SU Podium 1.4.1 For SketchUp 6


- SU Podium 1.4.1 has been released. This free update has much faster rendering speeds than Podium version 1.4. Our tests show speeds three or four times faster depending on your model and image sizes. Podium is a photo-realistic rendering program for SketchUp. The new version of Podium is compatible with recently released SketchUp 6.0. You can download the new 1.4.1 evaluation from www.ohyeahcad.com/download.

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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Google SketchUp Pro 6


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- Its seems like,.. we are working at speed of a snail.....just few days after we published the review of SketchUp Pro 5, Google has straight away dropped another Bomb by releasing version 6.0 (no betas / no RC)....Google has released both SketchUp 6 (free) and SketchUp Pro 6, which is available as a free upgrade to all SketchUp Users who have purchased any of SketchUp earlier version (2 to 5). The great new feature in this release is; now Google SketchUp Pro 6 lets you create 3D models from photographs, match existing models to background photos, render sketchy effects and fog and mark your models with 3D text, logos and watermarks. With the new Styles palette, you have easy access to a collection of display settings, which you can save and share. You also have greater control, with new features like enhanced modifier keys that let you perform operations like “copy” while you move, rotate or push/pull. If you use Google Earth, Google SketchUp allows you to place your models using real-world coordinates and share them with the world using the 3D Warehouse. Learn more about the new features available in Google SketchUp 6.

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Saturday, December 30, 2006

SketchUP Pro 5.0 Review ****


Sketch Pro 5.0 Review by Amit Dixit
- We have published the Review of SketchUP Pro 5.0, one of the most talked about 3d modeling application since Google acquisition of @lastsoftware. Snip: SketchUP, was first introduced by @Last Software, a small group of AEC software industry veterans. Google and @Last Software comes together while working on development of Google Earth Plug-in for SketchUP, and knowing the potential of SketchUP, Google end-up acquiring @lastsoftware in somewhere around March of 2006. SketchUP or Google SketchUP is a simple, yet amazingly powerful 3d modeling tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily. Though it had been developed for the conceptual stages of design, SketchUP is more than a powerful 3d application for creating presentations.So here, we begin with Review of SketchUP Pro 5.0.........SketchUp Review!!

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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Podium - New 3D Rendering plug-in for SketchUp


- Cadalog, Inc. has released SU Podium Version 1.0 for Google's SketchUP Pro. Cadalog boast with Podium, You can now make True photo-realistic rendering of your SketchUp 3d model without the pain and frustration of learning a complex program. Podium runs completely inside SketchUp from start to finish. It uses SketchUp features such as Textures, background colors, groups and shadows to achieve impressive results. Podium is intuitive to Google's SketchUp Pro users. Plus, its simple interface cuts the learning curve to minutes instead of days. Make an impression without the pain. SU Podium Version 1.0 (windows only) is available for $149.00.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Creating Geo-referenced 3D Scenes for Google™ Earth with REALVIZ® VTour 1.1


20% Discount on VTour & ImageModeler till September End
- REALVIZ®, a leader in image processing software development, is pleased to confirm that it is now possible for users of their acclaimed photo-based software applications, VTour and ImageModeler® (Windows® users, Mac® to follow) to create geo-referenced 3D scenes for Google™ Earth. , virtual tours and other photo-realistic material created with ImageModeler 4 and version 1.1of VTour, available from this week, can now be directly exported and published in Google Earth, pin-pointing exact geographical positioning, courtesy of the Google Earth 3D.........news Link!!
Related Posts:
RealViz VTour Now Shipping
Google Announced Sketchup free version
REALVIZ Applications Now Compatible With Google Earth
REALVIZ MatchMover Pro & ImageModeler Used for ‘Frostbiten’ VFX
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

REALVIZ Applications Now Compatible With Google Earth



- REALVIZ, has announced that it is nowpossible for users of their acclaimed photo-based software applications to display their content in Google Earth. Panoramas, 3D models, virtual tours and other photo-realistic material created with the REALVIZ software products, Stitcher, ImageModeler and VTour, can now be directly exported and published within Google Earth, pin-pointing exact geographical positioning,courtesy of the Google Earth 3D viewer. REALVIZ Stitcher, ImageModeler and VTour offer users of all levels aninnovative and effective solution for the creation of high-quality wide-angle panoramas, photo-real 3D environments and 3d models, to add photo-realistic panoramic and 3D close-ups to your Google Earth navigation.
For further information, please visit: http://www.realviz.com/GoogleEarth
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Friday, April 28, 2006

Google Announced SketchUP (Free Version)


- Just a month after acquiring @ last software, Google Released a free version of SketchUP.It is called Google SketchUp (free) and is available for download. The name of the non-free version is now SketchUp Pro 5, which is still available for sale. The major feature differences between free and pro version are as follows ; Pro users are able to print and export raster images at higher-than-screen resolution, Pro users have access to the following 3D export formats: DWG, DXF, 3DS, OBJ, XSI, VRML and FBX, Pro users are able to export animations and walkthroughs as MOV (Mac) or AVI (Windows) files, Pro users get the Sandbox Tools (for organic modeling of terrain, etc) and the Film & Stage Tools (for pre-viz work), above all - only SketchUp Pro is approved for commercial use; the free version is licensed for personal use only.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

ArchVision Release's Discovery Viewer for SketchUp!



ArchVision Release's Discovery Viewer for SketchUp & RPC
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- Archvision has released its latest product "Discovery Viewer".The Discovery Viewer allows users to view; @Last / Google, Inc. software SketchUp (.skp) and RPC (.rpc) content within Microsoft Office products such as PowerPoint, Word and Internet Explorer. With support for native SketchUp models including materials and textures, the Discovery Viewer is perfect for presenting designs within PowerPoint presentations............Link!!
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Breaking News : Google Inc. Acquired @Last Software !!



Breaking News : Google Inc. Acquired @Last Software.......Source: CGIndia
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- Dreams come true for the @Last Software the maker of 3d design software SketchUP, who happens to be working with Google in developement of for SketchUp is officialy acquired by Google inc....Brad (Founder @Last.) say; Well, about the biggest thing ever: we've been Googled. That’s right, Google Inc. has acquired @Last Software… so you might have just spit your coffee all over your keyboard, or you’re rolling your eyes thinking this is another one of my April Fool’s jokes. Believe me,we're still having a hard time believing it ourselves,but it's real -we are now Google!
Read full story about Google acquisition of Last Soft.

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