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Sketchup as an XNA modeller

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One of my colleagues pointed out this week that the latest version of Google’s free modeller, Sketchup,  now allows exporting of your models in Collada (*.dae) format. Perhaps many of you already noted this, but it had passed me by so I thought it was worth highlighting here. There are a number of Collada content importers around – including this one from Remi on the Collada forum. Sketchup is a pretty intuitive tool for modelling and is particularly brilliant for low-poly buildings, so I though some of you virtual worlds/RPG types (John?) might be interested to try it out? 

Posted Sat, Jan 16 2010 10:42 AM by VeraShackle

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LintfordPickle wrote re: Sketchup as an XNA modeller
on Sun, Jan 17 2010 9:35 PM

you couldn't have posted at a better time :), as I just started doing town generation this week.

I'll definitely be checking this out.  If I end up with anything worth while I'll post it,

thanks

Nemo Krad wrote re: Sketchup as an XNA modeller
on Thu, Jan 21 2010 11:15 AM

Cool post, you can also find a load of pre made dae models on Google too, the link escapes me now.

I was going to use them for my Flash AR stuff here at work, but they did not pan out too well, may well have been me though... :P