@adamb said: LightUp (http://light-up.co.uk) will render TGA sequences from your SketchUp Scene animations. Thanks! I'll check into it...

What are your global Displacement settings? Have you tried playing with edge length - setting it to 1 or 0.5? (warning! very detailed and slow setting!)

Maxwell Render is at 50% off again thanks to Spain's goals against Italy -- sale discount is valid until July 8th. Best, Jason.

Hi rogueparker, Thanks for the tip. I'm going to try it. Charly

Another question, I want to position an object by aligning one of its edges to the edge of another object. Infact, I have an imported Revit file, and multiple objects appear to be linked to a helper object - if I move the helper they all move, if I move the objects they move individually. For some reason the Group function is disabled for these objects. I'm trying to align two imported models - so I want to accurately align one set of objects against the other set.

If you set the empty SKP's Model Info > Units to meters, with say 3dp and no units displayed you can input all of you dimensions as if they are centimeters [or even millimeters provided you are consistent] - thus you'll avoid the issues around the inability to make tiny facets on some meshing operations. Once you are done... IF you must make it back into the 'real' size then draw a temporary line 1 'unit' long [actually it's 1m long, but from your viewpoint it's 1cm !]; now reset your Model Info > Units as desired; now in the Model run the Tapemeasure tool and click on the two ends of the temporary line and immediately type in 1cm, when prompted say 'Yes' to scale the entire model... everything in the SKP is now the right sizes in cm - and the now very tiny facets can exist, although their creation was not possible without the 'units/scaling' trick earlier... PS: You can use the Scale tool as Gaieus suggests BUT then any groups or components will be scaled BUT their original size is unchanged [unless you do further work] - unlike with the Tapemeasure re-scale trick...

Really coming along well, Aaron; it's incredible what you guys are doing!!!!!

@unknownuser said: What is the results with the other progs ? I thought you were going to show us. I think that you should, hairy one. @unknownuser said: Is the extractor not doing the job correctly, possibly? I think you are correct. Try a different one, and/or reboot and try again.

Importing the scene to Maxwell Studio does give better results with the built in semi ortho cameras.

Just about anything is possible through Python Scripting in Maxwell -- pyMaxwell is probably one of my favorite new Maxwell features in quite some time (now if I was only better at scripting ) Best, Jason.

Outstanding article Francois! I thought you presented a really compelling argument for the value of using both SketchUp and Maxwell (as well as the combination of the two). I also want to say that the images you used as examples are excellent and highly artistic (as always). Thank-you for sharing Best, Jason.

Also, you may find this thread interesting: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=45091 Best, Jason.

Thank for the info!

I found these useful when I just starting out with Photoshop. You can find them on a podcast too. http://blog.lynda.com/tag/photoshop-top-40/

Hi Tom, This piece of spirit will make you shine and good @t_osborn said: I will keep trying Don't stop n give up.. regards, vd

Hello! I exported as an .MXS and then just hit the black render button, despite exporting out the original .skp scene.. it worked! Thats makes noooooo sense to me, but Solo, thanks for the tip, it solved this problem! Really, thanks. Was pulling my hair out. Cheers for the help

@juliogriebeler said: Hello, i want to load 3 similar extensions with different names and icons. But with all activated in the menu Window/Preferences, in the menu View/Toolbar/ shows only one of them. Anyone know a solution to load the three at the same time? This probably belongs in the Developers' forum ? When you write a new 'tool' you create a toolbar and add commands into it; each commands has its own button images etc... If you have separate scripts loading you need to make an enduring reference to the toolbar. So have a 'loader' script, with a 'module' [say module Julios...... end] in which you define the toolbar with a @tbar = ... reference. Then get it to load the other scripts which you have in a subfolder [perhaps called 'Julios']. Then have each of those script's 'tools' encased in the same named 'module', and have some code to add each tool's command/button to ' @tbar' toolbar. This way you make the toolbar and add items too it from other scripts, by sharing the same module and a common reference to the toolbar, using a @ name that 'endures'

It's not a big price else you have some other where you can put any profile Here Extrude Edges by rail by faces by TIG Take a very tiny face [image: http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=88451]

I know KT is good and most of all its free, but this one is fun.. I just never got any easier render software than this one, Before i was know z-path render which is kind of the same behavior like renderin.. but have no further news from the developer. And after all the rendering process need to take to post production work, to make it look better... so for me this software is fun My test render: [image: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5063/nelsonvillajimbaranforr.jpg] Explore a bit more and you will fall in love with this software.. regards, vd

Do you have anything 'wwx' auto-loaded from the Plugins folder ?