No more new features?

[DanRathbun]

@betazero

I love the program but it is lacking so many basic 3d modeling features. Like… lights, rendering like Lumion, … animating materials for water and skies etc, …I look at a program like Lumion and just wonder why either Lumion does not make a modeling program like SketchUp or that SketchUp does not improves their program to the level of Lumion…

Whenever someone wants SketchUp to be like something else,
I post a link to this thread by the team members:

Vision and feature requests

Continuing the discussion from Solid section cuts: When SketchUp was first created, the vision was to have such a simple toolset that you could access every tool that you would need right from the home screen. And for advanced users, they could quickly use modifier keys to make those simple tools powerful. A flaw in many other applications at the time (and this is still true today) was that features were added over and over again so that a once-simple application is now cumbersome and complic…

And if you do not have the time to read the entire thread,
the most profound quotes in it can be found in one of my posts there:

Vision and feature requests

This is the most important (and profound) thing that has been said here on the forums, regarding SketchUp development and maintenance, in a long time. It is definately very informative to the public, in understanding the Trimble in-house development philosophy for maintaining SketchUp. (IMO, it should be quoted or pasted into this forum’s header “intro” post.) It again reminds me of a “promise” made by Tyler Miller, Engineering Director at SketchUp, (some years and cycles ago,) that they wou…