Sketchup users please read, Tips and resources for Sketchup modelling

[Chris Ollis]

Hi there,

I'm a little concerned about some of the models being made for Moviestorm with Sketchup and the tendency for them to have excessive poly counts.
I'm not a Sketchup user so am unsure of the facts, but I've gathered a few tutorials and bits of info to help keep these numbers down.

First of all what looks like a useful and logical tutorial on polygon reduction
http://members.home.nl/r.mussen/sketchup_tut00.html

Secondly Google offering official tips on the same problem
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/ans...mp;answer=41100

and another one for luck
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showt....php?p=11340037

I'm hoping to get a polygon counter put in to Modders Workshop so that when you import a Sketchup mesh you can see how many polys are imported and then compare that to our in house assets.


Feel free to add to this thread with more Sketchup tutorials and tips

[kv]

After several failed attempts, I decided to load the model back into MovieStorm and sure enough there was no warning about using a version 6 model
Mike

Actually it does say "Import Sketchup 6 model"

But yeah it would be nice to see an error warning if you accidentally import the wrong version, even better if modshop could start accepting later than sketchup 6 models without worrying about setting them that way on exporting

[MikeLyons]

Actually it does say "Import Sketchup 6 model"

But yeah it would be nice to see an error warning if you accidentally import the wrong version, even better if modshop could start accepting later than sketchup 6 models without worrying about setting them that way on exporting

Exactly the point. I had thought I had saved my Sketchup model as a version 6 model... I am in the habit of developing my models using the default version 7 format and then when I am ready to bring them into MS I save a copy of the model, selecting Sketchup 6 as the Save As option, and add v6 to the file name, as in:

DigitalRecorder.skp <-- original v7 version
DigitalRecorder v6.skp <-- for MovieStorm

Mike

[primaveranz]

Exactly the point. I had thought I had saved my Sketchup model as a version 6 model... I am in the habit of developing my models using the default version 7 format and then when I am ready to bring them into MS I save a copy of the model, selecting Sketchup 6 as the Save As option, and add v6 to the file name, as in:

DigitalRecorder.skp <-- original v7 version
DigitalRecorder v6.skp <-- for MovieStorm

Mike

That's the same as I do, however I often get caught out as I do the "Save As" into V6 then make a tiny (perhaps inadvertent) change and when I close the file I get asked "do you want to save changes" and automatically click "Yes" but of course SketchUp does a Save into V7, so I have a file with a V6 suffix but actually it is V7. It is one of those "Bummer" moments when your MW blows up and you realise you just did it again