SKETCH UP 8: Geophysical Context & Energy Modeling

This should allow design teams who have modeled their projects in sketchup, to run a fast IES model of the building, a lot faster than before (no more tracing the building over again), and see how its performing long before the energy model by the MEP engineers is being done (often late in the process, unfortunately

Read the article here:

http://greensource.construction.com/news/2010/100920SketchUp.asp

Animation Capabilities

Check out this awesome camera sequence:

Thanks to Jeff E. for sharing!!

Overnight Rendering Results

Here's our first overnight high-res render. We're still troubleshooting model and lighting issues, but we've at least got the sun, point lights, and cove (IES mesh) lights working here. This was rendered at the highest resolution possible and best photon-mapping option, which yields a large enough image (28 x 21 @ 100 dpi) that it could be a standalone image on our marketing boards. Best of all, the software is stable enough to run overnight with no human babysitting!

KERKYTHEA: Getting Started

To Download the "Getting Started" Guide shown in today's Lunch n Learn Click Here:

http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=fileinfo&id=89

For furthur Exploration there are several great Tutorials at this Link: (Scroll down to the Sketch Up Section)

http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_openwiki&Itemid=75&id=tutorials


... More to Come Soon!!!