Burkhard, It's the other way round - there is a SKP Importer for Archicad that can be downloaded from the Graphisoft site. The version I have tested is meant for version 11, I don't know if it works with 12. Models imported with it needed quite a lot of cleanup, but it is a nice way of creating custom doors and windows as SU hole-cutting components are imported as windows or doors (if they touch an edge) into Archicad. Anssi

Which OS are you on harry? IF its vista, try running sketchup as an administrator (right click the SU icon->run as admin)

I am not sure what you mean with the first part about shadows. I did understand the second part. Podium comes with presets. There are more on the Podium forum. Soon we will have even more.

'fraid not. Still on XP at the moment. I'm going to be working on the problem today. I'll try and report back if/when I find the issue. What frustration I'm having w/ Maxwell early on is that the error messages are pretty unsatisfactory. Might as well be "Render Failed: Guess again" -Brodie

Oh, well here's a couple thread about that.. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=11338 http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=4845 I don't know if they have what you need.

Damned I have not found the trick for use the Section Plan for adapt it to the clear cylinder Just the Rotate of the Proper Animation works fine (Enable Menu Plugins Start animation observer before launch the "Play animation) rotest.skp

THANKS for the link

Got It,,Thank You..Mint Julips on me..

Ooh, very cool! I just got Ulead studios, I didn't know it could do chroma key, coolio!

Thanks ilay7k I'll check it out

I too began to study Modo last year for the similar purposes, but have stopped in the absence of the translator, I wait till now... Developers have made the good import-export translator for Rhino, can try through it? From it like easier to send in SU?

@chrisglasier said: But if they are imported some other way, is there some nifty way to refer to them? I guess there has to be an observer which checks if an instance of a component is added. @chrisglasier said: I don't know much about observers. I guess they can "see" changes in xyz's, rotation and so on but can they also log logical relationships to other components. (design criteria type thing). An observer will tell you that an object has been moved (transformed), but that is all. The AI has to be coded to react on such an event. It is the hardest thing, I think. Tomasz

Oh, the atmosphere thingy is good. A job well done. Thing with Maxwell is that it's buggy, too buggy for it's price. And bugs don't exactly get squashed swiftly, either. If I had known this beforehand, I may have gone with Fry. That's not to say Maxwell is bad, though. When it delivers, it delivers quality. But those bugs ... And the Studio ... I dare anyone to spend a day 'planting' high poly trees (while using cautious settings to not strain the app!) and count the amount of crashes they get. I once had over 60. Thing is, of course, that the ability to populate a scene with trees and what not is, at least partially, wherein Maxwell's appeal to us 'poly limited' folks lies ...

You could try this. The diffuse image was taken from this site : http://www.kavewall.com/fire-smoke/index.htm I just cropped the image and made a clip map out of it. Hope this helps. Material file. [image: TLWp_flame.jpg]

Thanks Majid, nicely UV-mapped ! Did you post it on KT's forum ? [image: 0giy_temp_bmlt.jpg]

Yes, it's unfortunate, but it does make sense. The free version of SketchUp is so powerful that there needs to be some way to distinguish the pro version from the free version or nobody would drop 500 clams for the pro version. For a more in-depth look at the difference between the free version and the pro versions of SketchUp, see the link below: http://www.suwiki.org/suwiki/index.php?title=The_Differences_Between_SketchUp_Pro_and_Google_SketchUp -abe.

That's a neat little program. Is there anywhere to freely host a hypercosm model to be viewed by the public? I would love to be able to rotate through some of the great models that people on here have made. Hell, I think there is a whole city being modeled right now by someone in the gallery, and screen grabs just don't do it justice.

I downloaded the new version and now it was working in firefox thanks to the creator of Hypercosm. here is my work http://www.juvard.net/hypercosm/06_stevenson/

Rejoice!

You can edit this material in Kerky, first go to advanced settings,direct light estimators>refraction enhanched>turn on pseudo transulcencies. Then edit the refraction of your material, hope this helps, you should check out the kerky material editor guide. Mike [image: 3GeC_Ktest.JPG]