Sketch Up Scenery

[nasakid]

I would like to know if there is a way to make orbiter scenery in Google Sketch up?

 

[Urwumpe]

Not that I know of, there is no converter from Sketch Up to Orbiter.

 

[nasakid]

Darn! I Made the NASA Countdown clock for GE and i wanted it for orbiter

 

[astrosammy]

I think this [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3005"]LC39-EAFB 2006.3 (Lo-Res)[/ame] has a countdownclock.

 

[Kristian]

The newest version of Sketchup makes conversion between the .skp and .3ds formats possible, thus a model originally created in Sketchup is perfectly editable in programmes such as Gmax or Anim8tor.

 

[no matter]

I would like to know if there is a way to make orbiter scenery in Google Sketch up?

The free version can't export to 3ds (may be I am wrong i don't know sketchup at all) but here is a way to convert a sketchup scene to .3ds.
I have tested the method and it works well:
HERE

In summary:
1) Download or create a .skp model in Sketchup
2) In Sketchup, export your model to "Google Earth 4 (*.kmz)
(note: be sure to choose version 4, because the other one is different)
3) Change the extention of the kmz file to .zip
4) Pull out the .dae file
5) download fbx converter ( FBX converter )
6) In FBX Converter, convert the .dae file to .fbx
7) In FBX Converter, convert the .fbx file to .3ds