Ah, thanks. That's exactly what I need. Move, Copy, and Rotate was all I ever used. Come to think of it, I may have had the trial version before, but when the month ended it just kept working.

Hi: Ive been doing a bit of research on this subject as well. My findings: There appear to be four sources to convert SU 3D to 3D for viewing by othgers, clients, etc. The SimLab option that someone else mentioned at around $100. Very simple to use and the fact that anyone who has a recent Acrobat reader (8 or later, I believe) can rotate the model, turn on or off lighting, do basic measurements, etc. Nice and simple, but not many bells and whistles. eDrawings has a viewer, (free) and pro at around $100, that has more options, but requires a eDrawings viewer (which can be packaged into a single executable). Al Hart's (and associates) iNextRender has one that is attached to their render machine, I believe. Finally, Hypercosm which has a free and pro (around $200. This also requires a viewer or a player, but the viewer can be downloaded fro free as an applet for your browser. Hypercosm Pro, though not recently updated (I think) is the most sophisticated, permitting a 'client' to do more re viewing options. Hope this adds to your dilema! Robert

@ksj100 said: When I try to register to the site I cant because it says the passwords don't mach every time! If you email help at light-up.co.uk with your details, they can reset your password. Adam

@unknownuser said: Y'all can make contributions to the SOS Stinkie Fund through Mike.

Never mind - I will redo the changes at the end (so that we are not cross-editing things there). I only mean to do some minor tweaks in the css file anyway. Looking forward to the outcome; these effects are really cool.

I have a 9600 GT (1Gb ram) and Lumion works pretty fine on it. Certainly not the most modern card of course (and I also have a 32 bit XP - and Lumion is coming out on a 64 bit version soon so I should really upgrade my system and HW as well)

check the normals

nice, good to hear! neither of those two factors would be a deal breaker for me. do you have a twitter, blog, facebook, etc set up to track the progress or would it be best to just follow this thread?

Hehe. That's funny (and something's indeed buggy here). Would you mind posting it here as well? http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=83 Tomasz is working his ass off ATM and it's more likely that he monitors that forum more often. He'll definitely have questions (like how you exported; instances/hierarchy etc.)

Hmm.....While I haven't done much of this myself, I would guess the following are good places to start.[image: 7IKy_Temp00.png][image: 6xpr_Temp01.png]Have you tried to get help from the Renditioner Forum?

Solid Thinking is great piece of software. It is nurbs modeller with fantastic history layering system. I am not aware of ability to import directly SU. I was considering it for my product designers but decided on SolidWorks instead. I am finding that nurbs and meshes from SU are not always compatible. SU can produce meshes with a lot of small holes which for instance Rhino can import but model is usually not very useful. With Rhino there is comand to covert meshes to nurbs but topology is not always predictable. So better way to import SU models to SolidWorks and Rhino is via T-splines with corrected topology in 3d Coat. If the purpose of the modeller is product design I would not bother with SU. Small details create problems in meshes. OK I know you can scale it up and than reduce but still ... I would model in industry standard software such as SolidWorks , Engineer Pro, Solid Thinking etc.... If you want model architecture SU is good enough or if you want high poly and better quality model than try Rhino. It is very intuitive and very powerfull software. It produces clean geometry good enough for production and you can render with Thea or Vray ....Sorry for moving away from the main topic...

We put out a new version of RpTreeMaker with Flowers. See: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=36762

Thank you for the suggestion, Gaieus. I didn't remeber that I can modify Clip mapping. It's strange that in the file exported from SU7 I have the pic in the field Texture with Threshold 0.5 and in the file exported from SU8 there is no pic. When I put pic, I have to give a lower value for Threshold (0.1) to see correctly rendered image... Ok, but at least it works... Thanks!

Hi Kate The "Submit" button on the page where I'm supposed to enter my machine ID to get a license code doesn't seem to work? http://www.activateshaderlight.com/ Do I need to enter a 16 digit code number first? How do I get that? Thanks for any clarification. Eric_J

Very nice. I learned to drive with my Dad's 55 Ford sedan, and I once owned a white, red interior, 62 2 door Chevy Impala coup. Those were the days when American Iron ruled the road. I actually purchased it from a little old lady in the 70's. Wish I kept up the Chevy. At the time I was too young to appreciate what I had. I later traded it in for a Mustang.

Aha! I need to play more and lets You now! Thanks!

wow... that's pretty sweet.

Almost as a rule you'll find that people on 3D forums consider the Quadro line to be way overpriced compared to the GeForce. I can't say for sure but I think the Quadro only pays for itself when you move into high end architectural engineering programs that require continual math calculations. Get a GTX570 or 580

@aerilius said: I'm also interested in this topic, who knows if there will be an importer plugin (or maybe stellarium can export sky domes?). I think that in Stellarium you can save the sky dome like an image, then you can apply this image like texture to a sky dome model in SU.

@burkhard said: Would be better in the Extensions & Applications Discussions corner. True; moved there.