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    FAIR WARNING: Sketchup models

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    • demer928
      demer928 last edited by

      Gents & Gurlz,

      A great resource for FREE 3D models with free licensing\sharing has been taken over by the Money Mongrels.
      That resource is 3D Warehouse. Formally “owned” by Google it is now owned by Trimble Navigation Limited.
      IF you are DL’ding and converting .skp models for Falcon use, you need to go and read the NEW “terms of use” on the site.
      It seems to me that they are doing a Lost Pursuit type of thing i.e. taking FREE work and trying to sell it. I could be wrong?
      BUT, suffice it to say that going forward I will be contacting the original author, when possible, before using a model in Falcon.
      I suggest we all do the same.

      Be careful and diligent,
      demer

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      • Metalhead
        Metalhead last edited by

        I think 3d models made using Google Sketchup are bad 3d models , because of the amount of vertices created by the software.

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        • Radium
          Radium @Metalhead last edited by

          I agree Metalhead, Sketchup warehouse models are almost all out of specs…

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          • Metalhead
            Metalhead @Radium last edited by

            There are too much double lines and vertices at the same location in the 3d models from G-sketchup.
            Lines = edges

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            • Jackal
              Jackal last edited by

              @demer928:

              BUT, suffice it to say that going forward I will be contacting the original author, when possible, before using a model in Falcon.
              I suggest we all do the same.

              Be careful and diligent,
              demer

              Aye, sir 😄

              Agree totally on all yours above, but with Metalhead’s too 😉

              With best regards,

              "I told it Orville and Wilbur too: that thing will never fly"

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              • demer928
                demer928 @Jackal last edited by

                I did not start this thread to debate whether or not a model made in Sketchup, Maya, Autodesk, Rhino or the plethora of other modelling software is any better or worse than that of their competitors.
                I started it to shout out that the rules have changed. I do not want to see another Eagle611\Nizmo debacle going forward with some VERY skilled 3D modellers that are NOT under WaveyDaves tutelage or part of the BMS team.
                3rd party development in Falcon has ALWAYS been the catalyst for ANY iteration to move forward. It would be sad to read that some great modelling efforts were lost over this. They have been in the past……Sigh!

                Sincere,
                demer

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                • Dee-Jay
                  Dee-Jay @demer928 last edited by

                  @demer928:

                  I did not start this thread to debate whether or not a model made in Sketchup, Maya, Autodesk, Rhino or the plethora of other modelling software is any better or worse than that of their competitors.
                  I started it to shout out that the rules have changed. I do not want to see another Eagle611\Nizmo debacle going forward with some VERY skilled 3D modellers that are NOT under WaveyDaves tutelage or part of the BMS team.
                  3rd party development in Falcon has ALWAYS been the catalyst for ANY iteration to move forward. It would be sad to read that some great modelling efforts were lost over this. They have been in the past……Sigh!

                  Sincere,
                  demer

                  Thank you a lot for info Demer. Fortunately, Nizmo and Eagle61 wasn’t “VERY skilled 3D modellers”.

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