![]() ![]() Yafaray downloads were needed to render anything decent too, Lux cost $$ You had to use tri's and quads and there were no n'gons so it was a huge hassle to model if you didn't want to be bothered with topology loops. When both were free this kind of video was mostly ignored by people who used one tool or the other. It actually starts with the reasons why sketchup better for some cases and doesn't seem too biased. I suspect the migration of users will increase as some of the minor plugin developers will jump ship too. Many people have noticed a lot of new features hit blender but not wanted to be bothered to spend the time to get past the learning curve, especially in the mesh modelling area. I guess the more architecture and CAD people will go pro and the hobbyist model/renderers will jump when the 2017 version gets to old The pro users will hang on (although less of them since the price has risen) and since the free Make users will not have a platform that support plugins they look like they'll move to blender. ![]() Reading through posts at SketchUcation, it looks a bit grim. If you prefer to drive the Accord, do you really want to learn to drive a monster truck? Is the money saved by learning blender more or less than the money one would spend on SU pro? Hard to say, as the latest version of Blender looks significantly better than the past. Some would say, if you are professional making money from building projects with SketchUp, then purchasing the Pro version is simply the right thing to do. That company sees no financial benefit to building on what the massive SketchUp community/user base has built over the past several years so obviously that leaves the community "in the lurch." That said, it is true that SketchUp has changed now that a new company owns it. The Honda can be tricked out, "pimped", "souped up", a thousand ways to do amazing things even better than the Monster Truck, but it's still not a monster truck. I mean, Monster "Blender" Truck can be used for driving to the grocery store, but it's not the most practical thing, is it? It's so much faster to model with than Blender but if it's fading then I don't really want to invest more money on it, better spent on learning cyclesĮverything I model I render with twilight so I'm wondering what the twilight community thinks.Īnyway, as said, if this topic has been laid to rest, please point me to the detailsĬomparing SketchUP and Blender is something I avoid, as it's like comparing a Honda Accord with a Monster Truck. ![]() I'm wondering, is Sketchup is still the tool to stay with. I could be overthinking this but the community really built sketchup over several purchases by different companies and now the community's work only works with the prod version. I'm guessing that people are either using the Pro subscription or sticking with 2017 make? I was thinking of going Pro but I noticed that they had a subscription system now I'm not a fan of subscriptions as I tend to skip versions till there is something new I want, then I'm happy to pay for an upgrade. I'm guessing that the web (browser) free version doesn't support all the plugins that the community have built. I've been away from CG for a year or so and came back to find that Trimble doesn't make a free version anymore. Apologies if this topic has been hashed out already, if I'm flogging a dead horse please feel free to point me to the thread so I can catch up! ![]()
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