Have you ever wanted to…
make sure you never miss a blog post by the Trimble SketchUp folks?
stay up-do-date with your favorite SketchUp blogs?
follow what’s going on at SketchUcation?
keep an eye on Twitter and Facebook?
make sure you never miss any of my blog posts?
do all of this while you are working with SketchUp?
Then consider yourself lucky! I just posted a SketchUp News plugin that lets you do all of this – right inside SketchUp.
Even if you don’t usually use SketchUp plugins, this is the one to have!
Get your copy at the link below. Oh, and did I mention it is free?
http://www.alexschreyer.net/projects/sketchup-news-plugin/
Enjoy!...
I finally got around to updating my Ruby Code Editor to version 3.0. There are quite a few upgrades including: better environment stability (editor, scrolling, results, etc.), code completion for SketchUp classes and methods and a variety of other minor updates (including the fact that it now remembers the last file).
The following video gives a brief overview of the current version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGWs9p2WZsg
As always, you can get this editor from my website (and look at the more detailed changelog or leave comments) at:http://www.alexschreyer.net/projects/sketchup-ruby-code-editor/
For more on what you can do with this tool, check out Chapter 6 in my book "Architectural Design with SketchUp"....
I just published a page (under the book companion pages) called "Freebies" where I am giving stuff away!
At this point, this page features texture images and spherical environments, which you can use for your SketchUp renderings. All of them are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Therefore, feel free to use any of them in your (personal and commercial) projects.
Although the environments are only LDR (not HDR) and most textures don't tile, they can be very useful as the rendering above this text shows.
Keep checking the Freebies page (or my Flickr sets) often as I will be adding material regularly....
The raw, unrendered version
Happy New Year Everyone!!!
Now that my Christmas / Holiday Card is "so last year", it is time to reveal how it was made. For a tutorial (that also includes the Ruby script I used for it), go to the SketchUcation.com website. You can find the tutorial there.
http://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/48-advanced/306-scripting-a-christmas-card-with-ruby...
I sincerely hope this post finds you all happy and healthy. Enjoy your holidays (whatever you celebrate and wherever you are) and any time off that you can spend with your family. I wish you all a successful new year and all the best for your endeavors.
Cheers,
Alex
P.S.: "Why the water in the image?" you may ask. Well - it looks great and it renders fast. There are really no religious connotations here whatsoever. If you want to know how the image was made, check out this tutorial on SketchUcation for a how-to article....
