Spot on!!! Thanks!

@unknownuser said: ":35h96pqt]...when I got my phone, that's exactly what I said." Aww,Voder,... ...I don't know whether to laugh or cry Taff

Hello Igor Welcome on SU planet. MALAISE

If you still want to use a skybox, you could turn down the opacity of the texture to 65%, SU treats anything with less than 70% opacity as clear, so this should let the sun through without eliminating your skybox.

There is a step by step directions posted here.

Hello there, Try No.19 from here: http://sketchup.google.com/gsu5vtvideos.html

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Hi Landscapedraw, The sandbox creation process should be shown at the bottom of your SU screen. Do you see any process running there? (Sometimes - especially if it is a complex set of contour lines ,-, it can take rather long; even hours!) If that is an issue, you may be interested in "simplify contours" downloadable from the ruby section of the GSU website (scroll down to the bottom).

no problem - thanks for your help

Hi RD, Note however that most models in the WH are (or rather at least "supposed to be") real life (1:1) scale. So if you keep having scale issues, make sure that your scale is correct (1:1) and you are not working in smaller or bigger than real life.

It definitely looks as if it had been unsoftened. You can soften the whole meash to "get rid" of them (as I see there are no draped lines on it which would be a pein to lose in this case).

okay, cheers thanks alot

until Bryce looked to be the right size Interesting method. When I took the photo, I was not paying attention to number of pedestrians in the image. But they are there. It can be used to scale. I should intentionally include them from now on, in at least few of the building shots.

Glad to help.

bernhard, So, which driver worked for you? (You are on Vista, right?) This info could benefit others... Taff

thanks i will try that when i get back to the theatre this week.

Thanks everyone, I'll try that. Sigurd

If you do that, you won't be any further ahead. You still have to select the bits that you want to erase. It sounds like you may not know the various ways to select that will make things easier. For instance if you orbit your view so that the bits you want to chop off are all facing towards the right of your workspace, you can drag out a Right to left selection window over the geometry that you want to get rid of. Stop your selection window just short of the cut lines. That will select all items even partially within the window. Once selected, just hit the "delete" key. To select only those items that are edge to edge or endpoint to endpoint completely within the selection window, do a left to right selection. To select a surface and it's bounding edges, double click on the surface. To select all attached geometry "triple click on the surface. ( can't use this above becuse the cut line is still shared by the other portion of the model so it is still "attached") Lot's more ways to select also. You are doing a bunch of advanced stuff but I think you may be missing some of the basics that may make life a lot easier for you. Groups and components definitely being a biggie. If you could post your model, and just explain what you would like to accomplish, ( multi-part group??? do it over and over again???) Maybe we can provide some input on how to accomplish faster and easier, yes?

Hey, just wanted to drop a quick note and say thanks for the tips on this. Through being very diligent about how I placed my images (as textures, not images), and by re-setting my views so I'm not so far away that the camera thinks separate planes are the same, I was able to eliminate the flickering problem completely. Thanks a ton to all for your help and insight! I appreciate it muchly.

No worries mate