Hi Guys
Thanks for all your hard work so far, go hard for the next week and I'm looking forward to seeing each of your submissions! Yesterday, Sheng brought to my attention a plugin he has been using that may be useful for any of you with complex or curved surfaces. The plugin is call Soap Skin & Bubble and the link is here: https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/soap-skin-bubble
The plugin appears to be very straight forward to use so implementing this at the last minute shouldn't be a problem and will help avoid spending a heap of time tidying up the model. Take note of the tutorial video where the guy mentions that "more divisions will result in more polygons and will increase your file size", this is absolutely true and creating too many divisions may slow your computer down or even crash it so just use as many divisions as you need without going overboard.
Another thing to keep in mind is that it is going to be very difficult to apply your custom textures to surfaces that you have created using this plug-in. Here's some images of what Sheng has created with this plug-in;
Hope this helps!
Chris
Thanks for all your hard work so far, go hard for the next week and I'm looking forward to seeing each of your submissions! Yesterday, Sheng brought to my attention a plugin he has been using that may be useful for any of you with complex or curved surfaces. The plugin is call Soap Skin & Bubble and the link is here: https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/soap-skin-bubble
The plugin appears to be very straight forward to use so implementing this at the last minute shouldn't be a problem and will help avoid spending a heap of time tidying up the model. Take note of the tutorial video where the guy mentions that "more divisions will result in more polygons and will increase your file size", this is absolutely true and creating too many divisions may slow your computer down or even crash it so just use as many divisions as you need without going overboard.
Another thing to keep in mind is that it is going to be very difficult to apply your custom textures to surfaces that you have created using this plug-in. Here's some images of what Sheng has created with this plug-in;
Hope this helps!
Chris