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Posted by: liam887live
"Yes but google sketch up isn't useful if you are trying to upload into games or video, though you can make some cool renders and designs easily."
Thats not true there is nothing you cant do that can be done in other programmes. You can export in 3ds and obj so anything you make can be put into game.
So you are wrong buggy virus its 100% possible to port directly into a game engine so make sure you get your facts right before feeding people false information. I myself have actually made models in SU that have been put into fully working PC games! Anyway he doesnt want to make games just renders which would be perfect for SU, just import your model then use a free renderer and your all done!
I would recommend SU if you are starting off as a novice. Its easier to use than the other programmes and once you have grasped the basics f 3D you can move on to another package but if you want a free software with a good community try blender or SU.
Anyway here are some links:
blender
Blender training on same link!
Sketchup
Sketchup Training
By the way here is a screenshot of part of a tutorial I wrote on 3D layers in photoshop CS3 with 3D layers is this similar to what you were talking about:
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3519/tutorial2.jpg
Oh, I know you can do that, export directly into a game from google sketch up, but usually there are clipping errors and other things like that that you wouldn't notice usually that get fixed up in other Modeling programs.
And usually by the time you fixed up all those errors having made something in CAD or Gmax would have been just as fast.