SketchUp to Blender Workflow: 03 Change Materials (Blender Render)
Screencast of a Blender session. Since SketchUp has moved to a web-based environment with reduced functionality, my students needed a new workflow. We are using SketchUp as our modeling environment and Blender as our rendering environment. Blender is a very capable modeler too. This short video demonstrates changing materials, breaking a complex model into parts in preparation for a simple monochrome rendering using Blender render. The next video will adapt this method to the node-based Cycles Render