[Hades]

As a side not of the craft i make dont seem to fit the FS universe, thus i see no need to upload them here. if anyone wants me to of course i will tho

You can post them in Fan Fiction and Art.
OMG look at what I found in the Sketchup Warehouse : A fan made GTD Orion

[Hellstryker]

Ok, give it up, who the hell here made that?

[Retsof]

On a side note, I just got sketchup a few hours ago, and it is easy, but I too cannot make spheres and such, I had to use an ark and put circles inside it, then outline it with normal straight lines so that it would show up.  Advice?

[Hellstryker]

It has premade spheres in the components section

[Retsof]

Oh, I haven't found that part yet. *gets on sketchup and starts looking*
EDIT:  Found it!

[Polpolion]

Pfft! Spheres are over-rated. A real man's model is perfectly symmetrical and lines only run on or parallel to one of the three axis...

[Retsof]

It's actually a hemisphere, and it is the base of a turret.  The rest of the ship is blocky though, so maybe I should make the turrets angular as well...

[Grizzly]

Noob question: Google Sketchup's can be converted to Freespace format?

[blowfish]

Yeah, SketchUp models can be converted for use in game.  It takes a good amount of work and patience though.

[Hellstryker]

Skp-3DS-Triangulate/optimize in lith unwrap-COB-POF is the order you have to do things in with sketchup

[TrashMan]

HINT: - if ship is symetrical, cut in half and work only on one half.

[blowfish]

Skp-3DS-Triangulate/optimize in lith unwrap-COB-POF is the order you have to do things in with sketchup

I just texture in SketchUp, export 3ds (the exporter triangulates all geometry automatically), import into TrueSpace, edit grouping, import into PCS2, add stuff (like firepoints) and use ingame.  Its a delicate process though.

[Colonol Dekker]

Can't see it snal but im sureit better than my 1st.¤ well done ¥
 

[Hellstryker]

DEKKER IS ALIVE?

[Unknown Target]

On a side note, I just got sketchup a few hours ago, and it is easy, but I too cannot make spheres and such, I had to use an ark and put circles inside it, then outline it with normal straight lines so that it would show up.  Advice?

To create a sphere, create one circle on the ground, and then another 90 degrees from it emanating from the ground sphere's center. Select the bottom circle's line (not the whole circle), then click the "follow me" tool, and click on the upright circle.

[Bob-san]

My modeling is done on Autodesk's AutoCAD 2007. It's a hard program but I end up with simple and very precise models that way. Sort of like yours I guess. Anyways--good job and keep going. You do have to use those polys somewhere or another... and I use mine in creating hull armor and windowing.

[Admiral_Stones]

Bah... and I got flamed when I released my rather low-poly Archangle.

[asyikarea51]

Does anyone know how to change the length of something, say a line?

I'm used to the SolidWorks style of editing measurements (haven't used it ever since I finished the module for it in school though) and I don't know how SketchUp does it.

[Hellstryker]

Bah... and I got flamed when I released my rather low-poly Archangle.

Only because it was unoriginal and had about 50 bad polygons 

[Admiral_Stones]

Fifty?