Sketchfab Official News Thread
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Hi Polycounters!
We wanted to start an official Sketchfab thread here in the forums, something we can use to bring you announcements. Check here for news about Sketchfab contests, product updates, new tools etc.
Stay tuned, as we have a lot coming in the next weeks and months
Best,
The Sketchfab team
We wanted to start an official Sketchfab thread here in the forums, something we can use to bring you announcements. Check here for news about Sketchfab contests, product updates, new tools etc.
Stay tuned, as we have a lot coming in the next weeks and months
Best,
The Sketchfab team
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Check out the blog post linked to up top for details, and have fun!
Good luck to all the participants!
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To celebrate our integration into Photoshop and the upcoming 3D Print Show here in NYC, we have put together a little challenge. Called "Printable Fine Art," the idea, as you can imagine, is to make a beautiful model that is 3D-printable. The top 3 winners will have their work printed and displayed at the print show, as well as receive one year of Photoshop CC and Sketchfab Pro.
More details can be found here in our blogpost. We hope you'll find this a fun contest, and definitely come see us at the show if you'll be in New York!
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With the start of the Fifa World Cup, we're happy to announce a brand new Sketchfast. We're challenging you to design an awesome trophy. We've got Sketchfab PRO accounts and Shapeways 3D printing vouchers up for grabs.
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Anything goes: you could theme it around your supported team, country or just make it look good!
You can read more about it on our blog.
Good Luck!
-The Sketchfab Team
This is an exciting message for all you students out there!
Universities and educational institutions who are members of our Sketchfab Student Program will now gain free access to our PRO features! This means you'll have more money to spend on keeping yourselves fed and energised to make awesome 3d art!
If your school is not a partner, or you want to know more about the program then check out the blog for more information.
Free Sketchfab PRO plan for students!
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-The Sketchfab team
With the introduction of annotations, you can mark different points on your model, record the best camera position, and add a description. So now your model can take your fans on a guided tour of your favorite features. They're crazy simple to navigate.
Use annotations to tell viewers a little more about your workflow on a specific project or highlight something awesome. We think ALL Sketchfabs users will really enjoy it.
Give it a try. Then post your annotated model right here. Wed love to see the creative ways youll use annotations.
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If you want to know more, check out the blog. Theres a video tutorial, too.
http://blog.sketchfab.com/post/92050205754/meet-our-annotations-feature
And as always, we love feedback. Tell us what you think. Be honest. (But dont be brutal.) ;-)
Sketchfabulous,
The Sketchfab Team
Can we make Annotation be actual links to tutorials or breakdown how-to ?
Yes! Hyperlinks supported
At SIGGRAPH, we are previewing the next generation of rendering: Physically Based Rendering also know as PBR. With PBR, models materials are more accurate and work great under all ligthing conditions. PBR will be available to everyone on Sketchfab later this year.
Come and meet us at booth #544, or check the demo
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Are you game for some 3D modeling action this weekend? Create a nature model using your favorite 3D sculpting tool. Anything goes, like animals, landscapes, plants, trees..
If you dont own 3D sculpting software, you can use our own easy to use Sculptfab. The winner will get his work featured and can choose a topic for the next sculpting contest!
Interested? Check out the blog for more info and rules:
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Good luck!
-The Sketchfab Team
We're currently running the 2015 Valentines Day contest over on Sketchfab!
1st place receives $250 in cash towards a romantic weekend, along with 1-year of Sketchfab PRO.
2nd place receives 1 year of Sketchfab PRO
3rd place receives 6 months of Sketchfab PRO
There are already some great entries but if you're up for the challenge, you can read more about it on our blog here .
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If you have any questions we'll be monitoring this thread. Alternatively you can tweet us @Sketchfab or message us on facebook.com/sketchfab
Good Luck!
-The Sketchfab Team
Were excited to announce that Facebook now supports Sketchfab embeds! Its super easy - just include a Sketchfab link in a Facebook post and it will automatically convert it into our real-time viewer.
Now youll be able to share interactive 3D content without having to leave your news feed!
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This is a huge milestone for us and were excited to share more news and features over the coming months.
Sketchfabulous!
-The Sketchfab Team
Sketchfab now supports Physically-Based Rendering!
As you probably know, PBR is fast becoming the standard way to render 3d content and it's great to finally share this support with the community.
You can read more about it on our blog here: http://blog.sketchfab.com/post/112612737009/physically-based-rendering-is-here
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There's already some fantastic content utilising PBR. Give it a try and share your results on Twitter and Facebook!
-The Sketchfab Team
We've had a few more software integrations in the last few months so wanted to share. (3DPrinterOS, Strata, Quirky, Blender Cycles support...catch up on the blog)
Most excitingly, you can now publish your 3D-Coat PBR projects to Sketchfab with one click
Their latest version contains a Sketchfab exporter that publishes your project to Sketchfab, sets up all required PBR materials and then enables the PBR renderer.
To celebrate this new integration, we’re giving all 3D-Coat users a free 90-day Sketchfab PRO license.
So if you want to try out 3D-Coat and get 90 days Sketchfab PRO... just download 3D-Coat (they have a free 30-day trial), upload a model with their new exporter and the 90 days will be added to your Sketchfab account.
Have fun!
-The Sketchfab Team
We wanted to let you know about an exciting feature we released this week: We're serving your models faster with the new texture quality button: where you control if you see a low res or high res model.
Until now, we always took a cautious approach: low-powered devices would always serve low-resolution textures, even if they might be able to display a higher quality.
With the introduction of our new texture quality button we put YOU back in control! We will still default to a texture resolution that we think is the best mix of performance and quality. But if you want, you can now override it.
Read all the details on the blog: http://blog.sketchfab.com/post/124241170759/serving-your-models-faster-with-our-new-texture
And here's a quick gif to show it in action:
Enjoy!
It’s that time of the year again when the weather gets cold, leaves turn brown and unspeakable things awaken from their slumber.. Join us for a visit to the Haunted Houses of Halloween! Great prizes await inside for those brave enough.
We have over $600 in prizes, find out details on:
http://blog.sketchfab.com/post/130682270874/halloween-2015-contest-haunted-house
With the upcoming premiere of The Force Awakens, we’re getting pretty excited about Star Wars, and we bet you are too! So we wanted to invite you to our new contest:
Model famous Star Wars scenes and compete for cool prizes, like your own Sphero remote-controlled BB-8 droid.
The grand prize is an Oculus Rift! Star Wars had the first holograms after all, and you can now build your own Princess Leia scene in VR on Sketchfab
To level the playing field, we have selected 2 cool scenes from each episode so far, and we threw in a bonus scene! Your job is to tell that story in a 3D scene, using annotations or animation.
These are the scenes you can choose from:
We have a stellar line up of judges including PolyCount's own Adam Bromell and the winning work will be featured here and on other CG sites. Entries close December 10th, for the full details, head to our blog!
We can't wait to see what you come up with!
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@Macrow I'm sure you could find a friend to swap with you
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Exciting news: we released animation for everyone today!
Read all about it on our blog!
Can't wait to see what you create!
-the Sketchfab team
(By the way we're really close to having the embeds here on Polycount fixed, thanks for your patience!)
We're excited to start the year with a major milestone - we've reached 500,000 models uploaded. That's thanks to you!
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Check the story http://www.sketchfab.com/500k and share how many models you contributed!
Thank you!
-the Sketchfab team
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Editing a post with an embed seems to break it and it no longer works.
We've let Polycount know so hope to have it fixed (for real) soon!
For now, you can embed in NEW POSTS.
Cheers,
-the Sketchfab team
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We have just updated our 3DS Max exporter. New features include support for animation and draft mode, and an easier and more secure way to log in to your Sketchfab account.
Exciting news! Today, we got integrated into Steam!
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Enjoy!
-the Sketchfab team
We are very excited to announce the release of our apps for Virtual Reality – available for Oculus, HTC Vive, Gear VR and Cardboard – as well as initial WebVR support on Sketchfab.
These apps provide a dedicated Virtual Reality experience and make Sketchfab available on more headsets. The apps are a curated showcase of models, and already a great illustration of what Sketchfab + VR means. Our goal is to scale them to let you browse the entire Sketchfab gallery in VR within the apps.
The other great news is that with our WebVR support, you can now explore ALL Sketchfab models in VR – not only with Cardboard, but with any VR headset. This now also includes positional tracking on all platforms that support it (Oculus and Vive). And it’s just a click away from any model – press the VR button to get started!
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Hey Polycount,
We're excited to announce that we've made another leap forward that will help artists everywhere show off their work and discover others. Thanks to our WebVR integration it's now possible to explore every one of the close-to-a-million scenes uploaded by you, our community in VR on mobile (Cardboard, GearVR) AND on desktop with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
To make exploring in VR easier we've added our VR Launcher menu allowing you to browse scenes without leaving the googles, VR teleportation to move around the scenes and VR Scene Editor settings to simply and quickly set up your models for the best possible viewing experience in VR.
[edit] nevermind, found it. http://store.steampowered.com/app/464940/
tT seems to be limited to a specific selection of models though. Is there a way to type in a URL ?
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