Google SketchUP......

[RPMiller]

Excellent stuff! Really beautiful work.

I wonder if we can tempt him here? <s>

Ravs

One sure fire way to find out...

[pyrandon]

Okay, for me personally it is highly ironic you posted this link.

After posting my "Holy Isle" isometric/perspective sketch over in the finished maps threads, the response many people gave of "I wish I could draw" made me wonder whether/how someone with little/no training in perspective drawing could still come up with at least a basic 3-D sketch using the wonders of modern technology. SketchUp came immediately to mind: create a simple render then improve it in an art program.

Google SketchUp then showed up on radar at the exact same time I wondered about it in a thread over at the EN World boards--with people asking if it could be used for this same purpose! (http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=202314) Coincidental, eh?

And now I see that amazing series by "None the Wiser"--that's ironic!

How can we not see a lot of uses for SketchUp type programs? To make a map (either 2D or in perspective) & be able to easily manipulate views and shots from unlimited angles is the way of the future for computer mapping, for both hobby and professional cartographers.

Great, great find thebax2k!! Inspirational.

PS: so who's going to give "None the Wiser" a call?

[RPMiller]

PS: so who's going to give "None the Wiser" a call?

I think it is your turn.

[Duvik]

ol' Snikle over at RPTools.net and Four Ugly Monsters has done some nice work using Google Sketchup. I played with it myself and found it to be a great tool as well.