Just as the criticism of Lewis Wadsworth on Packt Publishing, I see that this book, Packt has bothered to put the color images, (many, nay, almost all books about SketchUp is black / white) but not concerned with the quality of the image posted in the book. Second book in less than a month! The theme is good! I'd stick with Aidan's own book, or Chris Grover's Missing Manual. (For example, the Blender book's discussion on the topic of UV unwrapping was both out-of-date as far as the UI was concerned and partially repeated in successive, garbled chapters.) I've been led to believe that Packt prints-on-demand, so these sort of flaws are even more inexplicable. Packt also is notorious for not updating their title catalog as applications change, or for doing a decent job with editing.
Not my favorite publisher.previous titles (there's a very similar one for Blender, and I've also read their book on Wordpress) have had about the worst-quality illustrations (like smudged, faded newspaper photos) I have ever encountered in a technical book.
Posted by Aidan Chopra, SketchUp Evangelist The above is to the book on Amazon here it is on the publisher's website. If you're an experienced SketchUp modeler, you owe it to yourself to pick up Robin's book.
It's definitely the most productive time-passer within arm's reach of my computer. Every time I open the book, I get sucked into reading another incredibly useful tip. Robin emphasizes a workflow that uses powerful but affordable tools (like Kerkythea and GIMP) for photo-rendering, but he also talks about creating better animations, using other Google tools for context modeling, adding entourage, matching photos and plenty more. SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualization is a treasure trove of information about making your SketchUp models look their best. My favorite chapter title: "How To Collect An Arsenal Rambo Would Be Proud Of" My favorite thing about Robin de Jongh's excellent new SketchUp book is the clever writing I tend to like my technical reading to be entertaining, too.
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