I made this new topic so you can discuss Blender with whoever else wants to. If you stay on this topic I predict you will not get flagged and can make whatever civil argument you like. I think It’s a valid conversation to have.

[image] chippwalters: Deciding who gets to talk and who should be silenced has no allure for me. The rules were layed out in time way before the insulting posts. We are all moderators here, some take their task more strickt than others. You can’t expect @TheOnlyAaron or @jody to read all the …

I have been following this thread with interest until the informative and interesting posts about Blender started to be flooded by OT posts, for instance rantings about the SketchUp licensing change. I feel that there are already quite enough threads discussing that, and if others feel otherwise, th…

I did some Blender testing over a year ago but could nto get my head around it. However since I am out of work for an extended time I am giving it another shot. Its been really great so far, yesterday was the start of week 4 of my class. We have an online class every Tuesday and given a theme, then …

Good timing. Just minutes ago I was thinking of this stuff you’ve been showing elsewhere, and thinking you should post some here. [image] liamk887: and its totally replaced Keyshot in my inventory Really? How is it at importing SketchUp models? Would a SU to Blender workflow of rendering …

[image] RTCool: Really? How is it at importing SketchUp models? Would a SU to Blender workflow of rendering work well? Yes it works fine so far as either .fbx or .dae. SketchUp> Blender/Unreal would be my new workflow. Or even SketchUp > Blender> Unreal. [image] jody: Thanks @liamk887 f…

In March we had this long discussion. Some of what we went through may be of interest: [image] Problem Exporting DAE OBJ FBX to Blender w/o triangles for quad modeling for High Low Texture Bake for Mixer 2020 Pro So, I’m trying to take a model that I created in SketchUp a…

This finished quicker than I thought, this is day 3 of the 4th weeks project. [ - YouTube]

Wow Liam! Fantastic work, very impressive.

[image] RTCool: Really? How is it at importing SketchUp models? Would a SU to Blender workflow of rendering work well? Hi Rob, I have a free video on it which I just shared here: [image] Blender Discussion Extending SketchUp Here’s another free video on how to expo…

Yes it’s pretty good, but for my course I have to average a new animation every 5 days so cycles is too slow but I’ll be using it for stills for sure and then my own animations later.

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In March we had this long discussion. Some of what we went through may be of interest:

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