Simcity4

CrazyBC · 9 Jan 2010, 05:00

it be nice if some one help or point in the right directions on how to do BAT tool for sketchup just like gmax has i have both but sketch up is the way to go .. get
all the plugins u need makes it perfect for my needs .. im sure thers a lot of people that can do this .. im trying to learn on my owne .. it will take time .. but some help be ...NICE AND VERY APPERCIATED !!! ya My spelling sucks ..

pilou · 9 Jan 2010, 09:09

Sketchup itself is the perfect BAT tool

@unknownuser said:

A long time ago I downloaded gmax, to creat buildings for simcity 4. After a while I mentioned that this program is really hard to work with. Yesterday I read somewhere on the sketchup website that it is possible to use sketschup for the creating of buildings for simcity 4. The one who wrote that tekst did not explain how, and I couldn't find his emailadress either, so I can't ask him. Is it possible to export sketchup moddels into gmax?

@unknownuser said:

Its a bit more complicated but it will work indefinetly with the free version of SU.

First you'll need a copy of blender. Then you need to export your model form free SU as a google earth 4 file. Once youve done this, find the file and change its extension to .zip (.kmz files are actually just zip files in disguise.)

If you then open up the zip file you'll find a folder called 'models', in there you will find your model with the extension .dae. This file format can be imported in to blender, and then from blender you can export your model as a .3ds