3D CITY MODELS???????

Also, when downloading 3d models, make sure to look at the poly count. Some of these models can run into the 100's of thousand of polygons a piece, which is inefficient/impossible to use in a game.

i was thinking maybe if someone could help me make the 3d models I could let you keep some of the profits (I am selling this game online)

That sounds like blender is some piece of wooden chuck in contrast to Sketchup ;) I'm not an artist but i know that blender can stick up with most professional modelling tools out there. It take some time to get familiar with the interface from what i've heard, but i've seen some people doing really crazy stuff in blender within 3 min.

I never get warm with any modelling tool, so i better keep programming ;)

Blender is getting constantly upgraded as well, which is more than I can say for most of the 'professional' products out there right now!

A small interjection, Sketchup is terrible for professional game models. It lack any sort of support for animations, proper texturing, UV-mapping, baking, etc.

It's very good at sketching and architecture models, but in being that it makes some fatal assumptions that make it difficult to use for game models.
For instance:

• It assumes all faces are double sided.

• It assumes you don't care about poly-count.

• It assumes meshes don't have pivot points.

• etc

Basically it assumes you're doing 3d sketches, not video game production models. In that sense Blender is vastly superior.

It depends what you need. For buildings and lo-poly assets, there is no better and faster tool than SU. But you need some extensions, CleanUp and PlayUp being the most important (FredoTools, joint push/pull, rounded corners, solids are handy etc). You still need to go thru every face and draw lines manually at some point, this is nothing unlike any other 3D editor but if it's lo-poly, well.. I don't think there exist a 3D editor where you don't need to check every triangle on assets that are repeated hundreds or thousands of times anyway.

Pivot points, mechanical stuff, no problem but like everything, you need to practice. For most 3dsmax/blender users it's simplicity is often mistaken as "it should do it this way automatically". For my use (lo-poly assets and architectural, drafting etc) blender is awful.. But SU is NOT for soft body models or animations, nor is it really good on anything really high poly (allthou, you can use it to model vehicles for ex.)

SU has changed to accommodate game design a bit better and it has now a lot of good extensions. It really is superior on making simple stuff or placeholders where blender and 3dsmax just are way too complicated... And you don't need Pro for personal use.

Forgot UVToolkit extension, it is mandatory, SU texturing is it's least game friendly part.. Best is if you use it to quickly get the basic geometry using just placeholder textures, enough details for testing and then later use other softwares that are more suited for texturing. SU is quick and fast, dirty but it wont stop your ideas flowing for twenty minutes to get one freaking building made, ie death of inspiration aka blender.. :) (it's just a tad too slow and it's interface messes up your brain when you switch between unity and blender, SU doesn't do that so much)