Hi! Newbie here! I been testing TS 7.6 few days now. I think it is a great tool for animating things, UI is pretty "complicated". Lots of tutorials though. Older versions like 5 were good for beginners...

Thanks Pete. The soft shadow button will still result in hard shadows for me. Perhaps it's the ambient light/sun light slider that I need to adjust. For the grass, I'm looking for something that I can use for quick residential projects. A short mowed lawn that doesn't appear flat, without taxing render times too much. Do you think creating an ecosystem material would be my best bet? As it will render billboards in the distance, instead of trying to displace an entire lawn.

Funny and practical when you are at the opposite side of the world without prog! [image: http://forums.polyloop.net/imagehosting/1964965eac370039.jpg]

i dont think there were many major changes made to the inference system (which is probably what your experiencing), although im a forgetful chap so their might have been some improvements somewhere.

Hi. Kerkythea has options to make flythru animations. You can setup a lot of things directly inside Sketchup, and if you need some others in Kerkythea itself. Imho its verey a verey interesting option. I would recomend give it another try. Indigo its an interesting option too, and its tuned inside Sketchup. (And if cash its not an issue consider donate a little to the free render engine you choose )

Hi Yanivkin! I had similar problems before. 1rst step is to dubbelcheck that all the files are where there are supposed to be. Plugins etc. Most problems Ive had with Sk2kt comes from that. Its been a pretty stable system so far.

@idraft said: Is there a way we can have a voting system on this forum. You can always add a Poll to the first post of a topic. Wait however for others to add more services if you are really interested.

Third approach could be to use php files instead of html files and simply include the one that contains the Hypercosm applet into another one (in case one doesn't want to use iFrames which can be the case sometimes)

I would not use sky with camera view like that. It would be better using background colour. To avoid bright spot like that try to move the origin.

For all those thinking to buy Modo they are running $200 price reduction over festive season.

Ahhhhhhh now it makes sense. Thank you!

Too late! Already got it myself. As always, the solution was right under my nose. Thanks anyway.

@kwistenbiebel said: They might as well go fully open source with Sketchup, so really funky coding stuff can happen. Amen to that! I was really hoping Google would step up to the plate with this release and show that they had some vision for the software, but version 7, although improved, is not a step towards something better. Google is content with having sketchup be purely a surface modeler with poor integration and inefficient load handling. I was hoping to see an indication with this release, that sketchup would move more towards a quad modeler or at least start to offer things like direct vertex manipulation and subdivision. There are so many great ruby scripts and ideas that could've been taken on by Google's development team and integrated into the software as standard tools, but in the end, there were no new tools whatsoever. Except for automatic line intersecting, which I'd imagine wouldn't take more than a few lines of code to add. So, in the end, the only real solution to the inefficiency dilemma is to have solid third party application that can be strong in the areas that Sketchup is weak. I wouldn't count on Google to provide this solution.

artlantis is a very good app, very easy to learn and use. its problem is, like others, its price tag.

I once read a post on this forum that points to a plugin that fools SU into believing that SU free is SU pro in a limited range of situations. If however this is a Boo Hoo, please forget I mentioned it.

Hey, just found on maxwell forum: Pelias say's: "There is one very important change which is not directly visible though. The handling of transformation matrices was overwritten to solve the issues of Studio compatibility for groups/components. This is a big one - I believe this fixes the issues of objects misplaced in Studio or Studio crashes when loading SU generated MXS files for good." Yeah!

Thanks big for the detailed answer, Solo, I will try to bypass this problem somehow. Though all the same does not converge, put pictures: [image: http://s45.radikal.ru/i109/0812/64/3934eb43074ct.jpg] [image: http://s45.radikal.ru/i109/0812/d9/e6c22994f56bt.jpg] Vue simple polygons splits up not for two, and on many triangles, them in 40 it turns out times more (see arrows)....

I've seen anim8or... but is there ANYTHING like it for macs?

I think that I got it all sorted out. I have put it onto the Gallery. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=14123

Craig, thanks for replying. I've downloaded the latest version via the link you gave but still the same problem. I've posted it to your forum. I did find that if I temporarily moved all my plug ins out it did install so there must be a conflict with other plug ins. This issue has been reported on your forum which the new version was intended to fix. One thing however, what is the new version number? I still get VE-Ware59 as the installer the same as before. Kenny