March Entry: A Sketch - Up example

[alucard339]

I realy like the dark version.
I think the red arrow will add an easy reading side to the map and that is always good.

I also think that your final version of the challenge will look really great.

C U,
Alu.

[pyrandon]

Wow--Sandeman, this is very, very impressive! Daannnnnnng!!!!! Nice work!

[kalmarjan]

This is what the first room looks like from a battle map perspective. I plan to take this into a 3D application to play around with textures and get some detail in there.

It is hard to see, but all the doors in this room are different, and I built them using the component editor in Sketchup. Quite powerful.

I am planning to post a "GM" map, with each room out as a separate battle map. Should be fun. In the end I guess I could just make a PDF. Anyone know of a good free PDF resource? I have Acro Reader, but I do not think you can make a PDF with it.

Anyway, let me know what you all think.

Sandeman

[Midgardsormr]

I've been using PDF995 for a while. It acts like a printer: just select it from the print dialogue, and it outputs a pdf instead of a print job.

I'm not sure how it would work with a large-format job like a battlemat, though. I guess that's something to look into.

[Torq]

Its looking great Kalmarjan. I've been wondering about the usefulness of Sketchup for mapping. The trouble with real perspective is that the larger the area you are trying to depict gets, the more side-on the view becomes at the extremities. I think its best suited to individual battlemaps as you suggest.

For conversion to pdf try Bullzip. It installs as an alternative printer and exports into a pdf document.

Torq

[kalmarjan]

Its looking great Kalmarjan. I've been wondering about the usefulness of Sketchup for mapping. The trouble with real perspective is that the larger the area you are trying to depict gets, the more side-on the view becomes at the extremities. I think its best suited to individual battlemaps as you suggest.

For conversion to pdf try Bullzip. It installs as an alternative printer and exports into a pdf document.

Torq

A cool thing is you can set the depth of field with the camera. Just use the zoom tool, select what depth you would like, (say, 90 degrees) and zoom back in. There will be a little distortion, but you will be able to see what you need.

[RobA]

Sketchup does provide an isometric rendering mode as well. Turn that on and set the camera to one of the three default views (straight down) and all perspective is eliminated

And in answer to the question on pdf, I have been using cutepdf. Like the one mentioned it sets itself up as a printer driver (used the ghostscript libraries). I know the page can bet set all the way up to a 36"x96" pdf.

-Rob A>