@unknownuser said: The funny thing is to see Excel build such complex and astonishing structures!

Perhaps thesewill be of interest to you then?

@paris said: My problem is that I cannot access the stand alone KT GUI. The folder is in my HD Apps, but there doesn't seem to be a way to open KT. Am I just having a 'brain fart' or being obtuse? I wonder if there is a prob with my X11? Unfortunately I'm not on a Mac myself, which makes it really difficult to come up with advices... Have you downloaded and read the Instructions for Running Kerkythea on a Mac tutorial..?? Although I'm not on a Mac, that tutorial seem to explain the steps very well... @paris said: BTW, apologies for my little rant... I know you guys are doing an awesome job! No need to apologize anything... I fully understand your frustration... Thanks for your kind words..!! Much appreciated..!!

be continued... Moi, SU SU, SU Kerkythea, Podium [image: 19648d38b8e7de83.jpg]

Although we have our own Forum for IRender nXt: http://nxt.accurender.com/forums/146.aspx I think many SketchUp users would prefer to post all their SketchUp related questions at a single forum. I was hoping that SCF wanted to be just that - a place for all questions relating to SketchUp - (SketchUp itself, 3D Warehouse, COntent providers, Ruby and other extensions, Renderers, other apps, etc.) By making the add-ons section more flexible (i.e. a sub-forum for any add-on which requests it), we would make it easier for users to post their questions to the proper sub-forum, to read questions about the add-on, and to subscribe to questions about the add-on)

If you have problem with Podium can you call in the Podium forum ...It would be useful if you post skippy with your post.

modelhead, not necessarily. You just need to turn the power up a lot if you dont set the background to black.

I vote for the return of sub forums..! Was much more easy to deal with...please!

Works fine on my laptop with XP 64 bit

Yes "The first official release of LightUp is now available" is released so no more beta for free after the first try

Hi Tim, welcome to the SCF! @mantis-1 said: I have the same problem, can someone explain how the problem was resolved. See the post two places up from yours... @sepo said: solved...issue of permission to write the textures. For the uninformed (i.e. those of you that don't check previous posts), this was using the Podium rendering software available for SU. A recent decision by management to throw all the toys into one basket and let you sift through it yourself resulted in the forum as it is now, somewhat overwhelming and disorganised.

using Irender...

Interesting, I signed up for the beta. Thanks

thanks kwistenbiebel, I think it would have to be looked better.

You can attach images to Forum postings using the Upload Attachment tab. You can email images or .SKP files to [image: Support-email.PNG]

Thank you for your answers but, the problem isn't the focal point, I have got it. And when I render, I have a little bit of blur; it work. The problem is that I don't know how to define the quantity of blur and the distance which is really net on the photo. I mean that I want to have a little net distance and after a quite big blur effect. I joined to my message a preview of my work. Thank you for your help about this. [image: q76R_Boules3bis.JPG]

Send a .SKP model to [image: Support-email.PNG] and we will take a look.

thanx Hal Materials: I meant that procedural materials (in the library that comes with Irenderplus) for example brik: when I select the material I can change it but when its applied I should be able to change it with all the options I get when i created it no? Bump: I was talking about the procedural materials... not images. When I create a marble material (in Irenderplus) there's no place where i can specifie bumpiness for the veins (for example...) when I use Sketchup materials (with images) It's easy to do so theres an "auto bump" option. Cutting planes: I get this message: ERROR during: Export Entities and Start Ray Trace: C:\Program Files\Render Plus Systems\IRender_nXt/ruby/nXt_extract.rb 1332 in nxt_add_section_plane_entity_to_model undefined method `>' for nil:NilClass

Great render. The lighting works really well, but the wood texture on the desk could be better, apart from that though. Great stuff!

Great work ! many thks