How to apply wood texture maps to your sketchup models

SketchUp models look much better when their surfaces get texture and color. Heiko Rech provides some useful tips through this sketchup video for applying color and texture maps to the surfaces of your sketchup models to make them beautiful as well as include detail and realism to your models.

SketchUp facilitates you to paint materials on faces. Materials basically belong to paints which contain a color and optional texture.

Once you apply materials to your model, the special abilities of SketchUp’s materials can allow you to perform various tasks like replace one material with another, edit the material, measure the quantities of materials required.

SketchUp comprises of different types of materials collections: carpet, tile, groundcover, glass, wood, and more. It is possible to generate your own material if the particular material, you are looking for is unavailable.

Within the SketchUp interface, the materials are modeled with the Paint Bucket tool and the Materials browser (Microsoft Windows) or the Colors browser (Mac OS X). The Materials or Colors browser also facilitates you to view, manage, and arrange the materials. With the Materials or Colors browser, it becomes easier to monitor the materials in your model and produce your own custom materials collections as per your projects or workflows.

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Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com

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A position is vacant for innovative 3D artist/Content Developer in Zurich

VirtaMed AG the award winner of several national and internation prizes as well as a developing company having a strong background in engineering and medicine. Besides, the company develops, creates and allocates virtual reality simulators with superior precision towards the education of surgeons.

VirtaMed AG is seeking applications from qualified 3d modelers having good flair in modeling and medical applications to support their Content Creation team in Zurich area.

Job Role

• Create Model and texture elemental 3D models concerning human anatomies.
• Model, texture and animate 3D models of surgical instruments.
• Generate, fine-tune content for the avant-grade simulators, by applying the company's patented simulation engine method.
• Work in tandem with the company's high-tech software engineers and product managers to create supreme products.

Eligibilities:-

• With minimum 2 years of experience in generating 3d models and 3d contents towards games, as well as 1year complete experience in applying Blender.
• Ability to generate complicated 3D models. Should have good motivation power to transform the products of the company to superior level.
• Well versed with the technical side of 3D modeling and the content formation pipeline.
• Sound knowledge in editing XML and other configuration files.
• Contain knowledge in modeling and texturing with Blender on a low poly budget.
• Must have knowledge with scripting languages (python), configuration and customized Blender plugins.
• Famility with Photoshop, Gimp or identical 2D software.
• Should be logical, solution- and team-oriented, imaginative, and self-starter.

To get more information about the company, please visit www.virtamed.com

Interested candidates may send their resumes and motivation letter through mail to Michèle Bölke (jobs@virtamed.com) alongwith their top-5 list on why they would prefer to work with VirtaMed AG.

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Art of Illusion 3.0 – the newest free open source 3d modeling, rendering & animation studio

Java-based open source Art of Illusion, a free 3d modeling, rendering & animation studio, can transform your creativeness to the next level. This useful 3d modeling app can be applied to generate models out of cubes, spheres, cylinders, curves, spline and triangle meshes and more. Besides, the users can characterize materials, edit textures and surface properties as well as produce naturalistic images through motion blur, depth of field and more.

The users can easily export sequels of still images to be used in other places as well as saved as a .mov video. Apply forward and inverse kinematic animation for providing support for skeletons.

The users can also get supported with scripting, through a bunched example attributing fur to your model with a single click.

The users will be able to download the scene file from art gellery and open & perform with it in Art of illusion.

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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