My method (the go2school method describe above will work for this sort of thing But you must record the screen for keep the animation! Or maybe Twilight can render this (?) Ps Can you save Siphon in V6?

@ Gaieus,TIG & others: very useful information. plugins , styles & materials...i have MANY MANY maybe GOOGLE should add selective startup option or i wish some smart guy create such plugin. thank you very much. TIG this is great...thanks http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=335586#p335586

Now that can indeed happen. Some rendering applications like twilight can export animation made with PA (or SP) though...

Question: Shader Light vs Twilight Render - which is better? Answer: The one you master and your talent.

Hi Dghpts, hi folks. I woould try drawing the drapery in its straigth deployed position. Then I would squeeze it using the Scale Tool. Finally, using a bending plugin, I would curve it. Just ideas.

Finally just some additional words on the PM system: when you send a PM, it is in the Outbox folder until the recipient reads it - when it will "move" to the Sent messages folder.

Good, you now have the image - now just add it to a new material and export as a SKM file as I explained...

I think i fixed the problem..at least for now..i reversed the faces of the light (backside toward me and that's unnusual). Hope that will work for all of them. Thanks for your help and hope that i can post some renders soon

The lines in the sketchy line styles are set in increments defined by pixel length rather than in model units whatever they are. Depending upon the style, you may be able to increase the "Level of Detail" slider under Edges>Edit. One other thing that might make a difference is to uncheck the box for Halo in the edges edit tab. If that was turned on, it will shorten up the lines a bit. It might be possible to edit the line style to create shorter line segments and update the style in Style Builder but there is a limit to how short the lines can be. I believe it is 16 pixels.

@unknownuser said: Sorry, that may of come off snarky. I don't model cars but there are many on SCF that do. Take a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlDxc2wyIhY&feature=player_detailpage or http://goo.gl/WMyAO Lots of other ways are possible with some of the newer plug-ins. I only modeled one vehicle: Long time ago, [image: mybaloneyhasafirstname.PNG] Nahh, it's all good. I suppose that first tutorial is pretty darn close to what I'm looking for, I'll have to try that out. Nice Wienermobile, by the way. And Pilou... that car is incredible, it looks like something right out of the Fallout games

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There are loads - search the forums here r try a Google search with appropriate keywords - there are lots of video tutorials about.... I know the million+ hits won't all be useful... but the first few are pretty good...[image: QkCc_Capture.PNG]

@tig said: You think you need 'Drop' http://www.smustard.com/find/ Simply select the things and 'drop'... they stop at the first surface hit, or z=0 Thanks for the speedy reply TIG, that worked a treat. Saves me a lot of time

Dear John, Many thanks for that. Kind regards, Bob

There is no attachment? There's a recent 'unfold' topic/tool here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=342110#p342110

Please explain what you mean. Post here? You just did ?? Do you mean 'using Vista' or what exactly?

There is that too. bgrubb, it shouldn't be any problem if you simply hide the outlines. All the pages of signage here were all done exactly as described. Most of it is way less than 26" and as you can see...no problem.

You can get as industrial and techy as you like... realising that there is, of course, a difference between working-up an existing object from plans, and designing something from scratch, where you might need a more technically advanced system to precisely tune aerofoil surfaces to maximum mechanical advantage etc...although, I guess there's nothing to stop you exporting the SU mesh to other software to do that kind of thing. You just wouldn't get instant feedback.

Uber Fantastic! Thanks very very much!

Don't take it the wrong way. What people are saying, is that although your question seems simple, the answer is not.