Sketchup to XSI- Exporting Alternative

How to create models in XSI and other 3D applications and make them work in Battlefront 1 & 2. Post models, tips for application usage and share anything XSI, 3DMax, SketchUp, etc.

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Sketchup to XSI- Exporting Alternative

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Google Sketchup Pro 7 Trial (Click)

I don't think this has been covered (just searched it).
Google Sketchup Pro 7 has an XSI export feature (File>Expert>3d Model), and this new trial version allows 8 hours total of usage, which can be split up into unlimited sessions. If you use the free Sketchup to make the models, and the trial to export them, I figure we can get a pretty big export number (assuming we export fast :wink: ). Full XSI export, textures included.

I just wanted to give all of us Sketchupers the heads up. :)
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Re: Sketchup to XSI- Exporting Alternative

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To .xsi ? With textures? Well, that will make Sketchup models much easier to get to msh.

Thanks for the heads up Ben!
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Nope, no textures, at least not for me, the .xsiftk format doesn't work well in the conversion.

I can say its easier just to use the methods described in several topics.
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i had textures on my one. not sure about any other significant errors, the only thing was that the model was rotated the wrong way round.
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Re: Sketchup to XSI- Exporting Alternative

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DarthRogueKnight wrote:Nope, no textures, at least not for me, the .xsiftk format doesn't work well in the conversion.

I can say its easier just to use the methods described in several topics.
What do you mean by no textures? I can't open up XSI at the moment for reasons I won't bother to explain, but I can see that it at least exported the texture picture file itself. And I assume you mean it exported a XSIFT file, with the extension of .xstft.
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Re: Sketchup to XSI- Exporting Alternative

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Thanks man. Glad to hear it. I'll make sure to try that asap.
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