So it is, slightly under whelming but very tempting at the same time. Could cover the cost of my shiny new indigo license

@gaieus said: And yeah, true that it's so easy to find resources yet often hard to tell if they are legit or pirated. Yup, often you come across people posting links where it comes across as they made it them self. Been burned there a few times.

There is always the concern that if you use some small name codec, that your users will then have to download and install that codec in order to view your videos. Keep that in mind, Chris

Just keep your eyes open. I will post it on this thread: NprTools

if you just put a little bit of effort to learn it, mapzone can be a really powerful tool when used in conjunction with an image editor like gimp or even by it's self.

TBD, Thanks for looking into it. It appears the problem had nothing to do with LightUp. It is solved now but I still don't know what was actually causing it. I don't remember which script was the last to be installed. MIght have been FreeScale update or Chris's Perpendicular face or some other. I started uninstalling scripts one by one in alphabetical order (using Ashampoo Uninstaller) aiming to completely reinstall SketchUp. I would try to fire up SketchUp every now and then, and it suddenly stopped bugsplatting! I don't have any tyime at the moment to look more closely into it, maybe later. The toolbars were all over the place when SketchUp finally did open. It seems coincedental that bugsplatting started on the last day of LightUp Demo. It might have something to do with what registry entries Ashampoo Uninstaller saved after LightUp installation. I would have moved toolbars around to place LightUp toolbar where I wanted it. So perhaps when Ashampoo reverted back to pre-LightUp state it also removed some of those registry entries relating to the new toolbar positions of OTHER scripts.

I personally use kerkythea not only because I like the rendering engine, it also lets you add as standalone models and other things directly to kerkythea without being in the sketchup model, making this a lighter, add birds because many models (trees and cars by example) greatly hinders the work in sketchup, speaks directly to the Gstaad ekrkythea me the quality and can be reached VRay quality also, quite clearly known. I am waiting for the moment the new version!

@frederik said: @eulgrand said: In the material editor, uncheck the "Visible" flag in the Model Flags section of your material. By unchecking the "Visible" flag for the material in the Material Editor, you will also loose the shadows... The object won't cast any... Oops, I got confused by the pop-up message. I should have checked, sorry [image: 6qn7_2009-04-25_075124.jpg]

Getting rid of geometry which doesn't effect the scene - including reflection and shadows - is always a good idea. Layers are find too - and you can just turn off the layers for each view.-- The trees work in Revit - we haven't added ground cover yet. I'mm stil waiting to see if the large model renders. These large models aren't very fast.

Kerkythea do have a powerful instancing brush feature. Cant say it would beat Vue7 in large scale animated nature creation, but in smaller scale it's fairly effective. Take a look on gallery or forum wip/final renders. Learn to use it with Instancing Brush Tutorial for 2008 Echo and get some model libraries and start painting your canvas with vegetation.

or go there http://sketchup.google.com/intl/fr/download/ French people has not yet the V7 in French only the V6 So... Choose Windows or Mac and press Button "Télécharger" Hope this help

@edson said: i just stumbled across LightZone a new, easy to learn and cheap image processing app. watching the videos left me quite impressed. there versions for windows mac and linux. Lightzone has been around for a while. It's a fairly innovating tool and also supports most RAW file format's. chris

And don't miss the Pepuka viewer (free) for see your model in 3D before pasting [image: bumblebeepepakura.jpg]

I'll second stinkie's recommendation. downloaded 'intro to modeling in modo' and started watching. very thorough...much more so that the stuff from Ablan.

@thomthom said: I can't see, at the moment, any use of adding a pattern to line edges. I think the difference between patterns and using a lighter edge color are subtle. However, there may be times when they can be useful. Here is a sample of the steps from this white house, using normal (thin) edge lines (upper left) and making them light grey in SketchUp (upper right), 50% mask and 50% transparency (lower left) and 50% mask, 75% transparency (lower right). The images are extracted as a detail from a larger model at the top and then blown up 4X at the bottom so you can see how the transparency and masking works. [image: WH-detail.JPG] I have put some larger examples on the RPS Wiki Here is the whole image with 50% masking and 75% transparency: [image: WH-small-4.jpg] And the same image with light grey edge lines in SketchUp [image: WH-small-2.jpg] Again, the difference are subtle, but there may be uses for them.

Hi BTM, thank you very much for your clarification and...sorry for my late reply. Actually, generally enhancing the contrast of the marker symbol can also enhance application's stability. On the other hand, in this case this is really a minor issue. Stability issues are greatly dependent on the quality of the webcam in use. Thank you again Graziano

I've just used jim's obj_export_1.1 on a small building and the obj imported perfectly into blender...except of course for the scale and orientation. this is with su7 and blender 2.48. strange that it didn't work for you...i know that if your whole model is a group, the export will fail

For me it was the "Save for Web & Devices" that stumped me at first. Because even once you get it imported, it seems all but impossible to save it as an animated .gif. It lets you export to any filetype, or regular save as a ./gif that is not animated, but the animated .gif type is ONLY available in the "save for web & devices" window. Maybe they fixed that silliness though for CS4, I have only done it in CS3. Glad its wokring now. I really keep meaning to look into GiMP too, Chris

We have selected the finalists in the IRender nXt Rendering Contest. Thanks to all who participated. Take a look at: Rendering Contest Now we just need to determine the 3 winners from the 12 finalists. Also, we are letting the SketchUp Community be one of the judges. Cast your vote HERE.

Some people have been having problems running the Tree Editor, either from SketchUp, or directly from the disk. We now have it creating a debug file as it loads. If you have been having this problem: Download the latest version from: Downloads Start the Tree Editor. If the tree editor fails, go to the RpTreeMaker menu under windows and select Show debug file. Send us the content of the debug file so we can determine where it failed.