Nice work, Tina. The last kitchen render is great - the added depth and realism of the shadows in combination with your style are stunning. Keep posting your progress.

thank you bro

That's sort of what I figured unfortunately. Any other ideas on how to do what I'm trying to?

Also " and ' are know to cause problems with SU2KT. Use plain a-z and 0-9 and _ or - then you safe.

Nice model GreyHead, although it is curiously stretched in the x direction in the zip file (easy to re-scale).

thanks a lot!

@alan wood said: Hi Solo, this posting has inspired me to download the trial version of Podium. cheers Alan I am with you Alan, I have always been interested in what Podium does but never spent the time to trial it. Best I do.

Here's a great text description tutorial by Frolfer12, and a link to the video tutorial for watching it directly.

@syburn said: Hi, How to get a decent relflected image in my reflected surfaces. I often only model stand alone elements and furniture etc so there will be no walls or ceilings etc. You can use simple studio light scene or like here or HDR lightning. Just find, buy or made suitable spherical hdr image for the sky. There are also some pre made HDR globals at Kerkythea repository. This simple render was done with HDR lighting and one IES light. [image: trefoil_s_106.jpg]

You're welcome, Alpro... Glad to hear that there was a rational explanation to your issue... Looking forward to see your renders..!!

OK, so I did some more digging. The setup I explained above will work fine, but it seems that two of the mentioned new low end machines will outperform the three custom built machines (some new parts some second hand parts) above, and will cost less than the three. My mistake the first time around. So guess which way I'm going... So it looks like I've solved the question regarding how well the setup will perform, questions regarding interoperability between OS's & KTe2008 versions remain. Topic over at the KT forum.

maybe you can use this plug in....its very cool but it just make one part of the process . it convert all the lines on faces, so then you have to push and pull the walls with out make the face http://www.iscarnet.com/sketchup/plugins/ruby/crear_caras.php

Thanks Tomasz, Your da man! BTW are things going with you? Mike

Hi Frederik, Thanks a lot for this update! I can hardly wait till the week-end to start playing around!

Now we are waiting the new fashion clock watch

Thanks Gaiues for the link. Majid you are very welcome to join us. Looking forward to see more of your posts.

OK, I've just tried again and funnily it said I entered either a wrong username or my password was wrong. I use FF and I make it remember my login data on my home computer (only). I looked there and there was "Gaieus" but there were way less *s for the password than my normal one. I re-entered my password and it finally let me in (I actually checked my password manager in FF settings and there the correct password showed). Anyway, I'm in. I hope you guys didn't have a hack again!

Re MEMORY STICK This should be possible. You should be able to copy the contents of C:\Program Files\Render Plus Systems\3D_PDF onto a memory stick, place it into a computer and run skp_to_3d_pdf.exe from the memory stick. We will give it a try. However, I can think of a few problems. Some Visual Studio DLL's may not be on the target computer. If we discover what they are, then they can be copied onto the memory stick and that may work (or we may have to create a new release of 3D PDF with the missing DLLs) You will not be licensed to run RPS 3D PDF on the target machine. I don't know how we will solve this problem. We can discuss it after you get the comcept working properly. There are 2 other solutions to the general problem. You can "remote log in" to your own computer, which is licensed for RPS 3D PDF from the client machines, run RPS 3D PDF remotely, load a file from the client machine and process it. You can bring your portable computer with you to the client location, put the .SKP file from the client machine onto your portable, and use your portable to create the PDF file.

Shadows would be "possible" in RPS 3D PDF - but very difficult for us to implement. U3D, (the underlying format), itself, does not do shadows (as far as we know). If anyone has seen other 3D PDF products which do shadows, let us know. So, to do shadows, we would have to places textures on each shadowed face which already had the shadows on them. This is "possible", but very difficult, and it would probably create a PDF file which was too large to use properly. We have seen some approaches which use .AVI movies, rather than 3D PDF to create presentations with shadows. SketchUp can do this with sun shadows already, or you can use IRender to create movies with reflections and shadows from point lights as well as the sun.