Corona@Sketchup started

[Ondra]

Here we go...

First off, we need few testers for the very early stages. If you want to get your hands on the latest Corona tech, and you dont mind testing unfinished software, drop Marcin a line at miodek@corona-renderer.com - quickly sum up your experience with Corona and with Sketchup, and why you want to test Corona. We will have a build to test in few days, and we will select few testers to receive it.

[caecarvalho]

That's great news! Just dropped a message!

[jiminy-billy-bob]

I'm the developer of Skatter (http://www.ronenbekerman.com/skatter-a-sketchup-scattering-extension/)
I'd love to have it working with Corona :D

I've sent an email

[bjornburgh]

I'm thrilled! Just sent a message.

[Rhodesy]

Great news. Im a sketchup and C4D user so its going to be really useful to have the option to work in both environments. I know its early stages but will cinema4D users get access to the sketchup plugin as part of the SAAS agreement and vice versa? Who knows I could end up just staying in sketchup if it has everything the c4d version will have. (And proxys). Cheers

Also are there plans for the future to have a universal material system across all platforms? I'm suspecting so the with some of the additions in the C4D beta. That would be fantastic.

[Tanakov]

Good to know, best way of progress :)

[Juraj Talcik]

Really looking forward to this :- ).

SketchUp is my most fondly remembered software. Imho, this will be the biggest chance for Corona to proliferate market, even if it wouldn't be most profitable compared to Max. The vast amount of users from academia, architecture offices,etc.. simply can't be compared with.

[MillerArch]

Message sent, I would be very interested in giving this a try!

[arqrenderz]

Im a 100% Sketchup user, how is the library thing going to work? i make the architecture inside SK and export it to max, and use the never ending models found for max..

[rambambulli]

Mail sent.

[Ryuu]

Im a 100% Sketchup user, how is the library thing going to work? i make the architecture inside SK and export it to max, and use the never ending models found for max..

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. AFAIK it's possible to import Max model geometry to SketchUp, but there is no way to import any materials more complex than a diffuse texture. If I understand your concern, you would like a possibility to import Max models in such a way that their materials will be usable by Corona, is that correct?

[arqrenderz]

Correct, its not really possible to import max models to sk, .3ds is a very old format with a lot of limitations...and Collada never works

[spadestick]

daniel, how are you a 100% sketchup user if you also use max? Sorry I'm trying to understand...

[arqrenderz]

well I mean i have like 8 years using it, and i model all my projects using it.

[Ang]

I've sent an email  ;)