pirallah Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Im a fairly new user of 3dStudio Max, and recently was able to acquire a copy of Sketchup 5. I was just wondering if the veterans here can give me advice if it would be better to start modelling my projects in SU,then render them in Max, or to just stick to Max from modeling to render. Im working in the interiors and exhibitions industry, where lots of revisions are commonplace. I found that revisions are hell to do in Max (almost better to do the whole thing again from scratch). That's why Im thinking of switching to SU for modeling. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchrender Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 In my experience you get what you pay for. I would stick to max and learn it inside out. The work flow will become easeir. Sketchup layering is a nightmare , handy , but nowhere near were it should be. I love them both but if you have spent 4500 euros on max learn it and learn it well you won't regret it, use vray too if you can afford it. phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 If there are a lot of revisions and you need to render all of them, then staying in Max is probably easier - with Sketchup to Max you'd be doing a new file import for each change. If you can do everything in Skechup style until it's finalized, Sketchup would be good for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ds4arch.com Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 i find SU extremely fast to build and setup a quick presentation /sketch based/ For a model that I know that will be used later on in Viz/Max i spend more time on building it very carefully - the right layers, components, no single faces etc. later on in Max it pays off where you can turn something off in SU and 3ds it to Max. Or learn some more Max and finish the model in Max. It all depends how you want your final presentation to look like. i use 50/50 SU and Max, that is my work habit, but i mostly do exteriors, so it may be easier. but as the guys before said, learn something that you will be comfortable with fairly quick. good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVARCHRACER Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 The quality between 3DSMAX and other quality rendering programs vs. Sketchup is uncomparable. Sketchup has its place for quick massing studies for clients to view but other than that the presentation quality is lacking is alot of areas. I was a huge fan of sketchup until I learned and developed my skills with ADT2006 linked to Vizrender. Vizrender that comes with ADT is the lesser of the quality programs I was refering to and I prefer it (with a little help from photoshp CS2) hands down over a sketchup presentation. Unless ofcourse there is a trick to sketchup modeling that I havent explored yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 I don't know about that. Sketchup doesn't do photorealistic rendering, but it can still do some great graphics if you style it up a bit - I'd take it any day over a very poor "photorealistic" renderer like Viz Render. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirallah Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 Thanks for your all your input people! Im still trying to get into grips with Sketchup, and with what Ive seen, I think it focuses on conceptual and design development stages of design, and Max is better used for the final modeling and rendering. I guess SU can also go the distance if you want it to do the final presentation renderings, though I guess one has to know the Ins and outs of the program really well (which I dont...yet..hehe). But I can say this for sure SU can make really quick design! I used it to develop a project that was done over the weekend, and though there's still a lot of design issues, I wouldn't have been able to make the deadline if I was using Max. So, I guess SU does have its advantages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renderbeads Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Hi kababayan, SketchUp is fairly new here in Cagayan de oro City, Philippines. Since nadiscover ko ung program a year ago, ginagamit ko na sa mga presentations ko, ma interior man o exterior. I need your feedback on how you are doing with the program. Maybe you could check out kerkythea, I hear they have a plug in for SketchUp. Kerkythea is a render engine. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirallah Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 Right now I use sketchup to get fast design output on the earlier stages, like the first conceptual presentations up to the final development revisions, its quicker that way, and dont have to deal with lots of complicated settings of Max. I get into max when we need a very nice marketing-quality render, and have a bit of time left. I realize expert max users might be able to do everything in max, but I am just not that good (or that fast), so the workaround. Good luck on your work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renderbeads Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 now that vray for sketchup is on its beta phase, we can be assured of great renders incorporated seamlessly on this wonderful program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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