"Google Sketchup Wargaming" Topic
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| Kropotkin303 | 14 Jan 2012 9:59 a.m. PST |
Hi all, Over the last few weeks I have been using Google Sketchup to make 3D models of hex-based wargames. You can pan around and zoom in on the action. Unit counters can be made and imported into the game as additional Sketchup objects ( skp files . These can be moved and stacked as the battle progresses. Here are a few images. They are based on a famous old game, but the map and the counters are generic.Hope you all like them. Overview of the map: link Initial German and Soviet setup: link After first move: link It was fun to do and what's more free. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 14 Jan 2012 11:11 a.m. PST |
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| PapaSync | 14 Jan 2012 7:35 p.m. PST |
It looks like a Heroscape terrain generator. 8) |
| Dale Hurtt | 14 Jan 2012 8:22 p.m. PST |
How much time did it take? To me, it isn't free if it takes a lot of time, which is what I lack the most. Dale |
| Kropotkin303 | 15 Jan 2012 1:10 a.m. PST |
Thanks Guys, The program is quite easy to use. The hexes themselves can be hard to allign properly, but once you have a blank board the time it takes is quite quick. Likewise once a blank counter is made it can be modified and saved. |
| goragrad | 15 Jan 2012 9:34 p.m. PST |
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| Mal Wright | 17 Jan 2012 7:37 p.m. PST |
But..but…you forgot to 3D the T34!!! |
| Kropotkin303 | 18 Jan 2012 5:01 p.m. PST |
LOL Some people have made 3d models of tanks.
link I guess they can be imported.I have been using images from the junior General paper soldiers site to add pictures to the counters |
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