If you want to go further, it’s nice to be able to add artificial light sources. You may just need to be able to import backgrounds, adjust sun and shade settings, camera position, and not much else. It will often be external views which means you can rely on a single light source, the sun.īlender has a whole host of tools that aren’t necessary for this limited task. I don’t suppose I am alone in mainly wanting something that will take an already impressive SU 3D rendered model and jazzing it up with more realistic lighting, without having too steep a learning curve or having to spend hours just to get a slightly better render. There’s been a lot of discussion about using Blender as an alternative to SU but I’m not up for that. It’s hard to know how many people are using Blender this way, even if only as a cost-free gateway drug to “proper” render engines. We already covered the old SketchUp (SKP) importer for Blender 2.9 in the past and will keep an eye on any updates.I have been looking into the capabilities of Blender for use as a photorealistic renderer for SU models. The importer works with Blender and promises to improve compatibility with newer SKP files and bring more SketchUp data to Blender. You can grab version 0.22.3 of the importer from Red Halo Studio on Github. We found another fork of the SKP importer that is compatible with both Blender 2.93 (Beta) and SketchUp 2021. What about SKP files created with SketchUp 2021?įor those files, we would need an update to the importer. It provides compatibility with SKP files created with SketchUp 2020. Today, we are currently at version 2.93 Beta of Blender, and the SketchUp Importer 0.21 still works. After the release of Blender 2.8, another developer forked the project, and we got an update from Arindam Mondal to versions 2.8 and 2.9. It all started with Martijn Berger in version 2.7x with an importer capable of handling SKP files in Blender.
But, due to the efforts of independent developers, we have reliable custom importers for SKP files.
So we have a native option to import SKP files? Unfortunately, there is no default importer for SketchUp. That is when a SketchUp importer becomes a critical part of Blender. From that first idea in SketchUp, they might want to hire a visualization artist to further develop the concept in Blender. For instance, you might want to use furniture models from an online library or start a design from a reference file.Ī popular source of 3D data for architecture is SketchUp, which lots of professionals and companies use to build ideas for a project. Even with all that flexibility, it is sometimes faster to import existing data to a project to save time. In Blender, we have a lot of options to create 3D models using powerful tools using either polygon or curve-based workflows.
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