@tig said: If you have some Scenes when you want 'solid' people/cars and others where you want 'wireframe' use Layers and Scene-tabs. Make two Layers named SOLID and WIREF. Your people/cars should be components. Put them all on the SOLID layer. Now make a copy of all of them and put those on the WIREF layer. Switch the SOLID layer off... Select all of the people/cars [on WIREF] and use make unique on these - this way you keep a 'solid' set unchanged. Edit each person/car component in turn. Select all faces [use one of the selection-tools available] and delete them [a quick way is to use Wireframe view mode, select all edges by fence, Edit>Cut so the faces auto-delete and them immediately Edit>PasteInPlace so only the edges are left - go out of Wireframe mode to check they've gone!]. Use 'Entity Info' on these selected edges to stop them casting shadows etc and then you have what you need. By toggling the two layers ON/OFF you can have solid/wireframe people/cars in different Scene-tabs... If you move one need to remember to move the other - easy done if both layers are temporarily on while you edit... The awesome trick worked thanks indeed !

@unknownuser said: I am using Twilight to render these images. When I set "two point perspective" I can't get the image into the view. In other words it is not rendering the scene showing on the screen. Offsetting the SU image does not seem to work. @unknownuser said: Rendering 2 pt perspectives in Twilight only work if you do not adjust the scene (panning/zooming) after clicking the 2 pt perspective button. Marcus is right and, as far as I know, this is an issue for many renderers integrated in SU. You can try this little trick I found however: -Switch to "2 point perspective"; -Move nothing; -Switch back to "perspective". Now you can pan &zoom and Twilight will render it correctly. Not really the same of 2 point perspective as you will see, but at least the verticals will stay straight.

Appreciate the comments. The access to 3DSMax models and materials is a plus, as well as the DWG and Revit Families manufacturers are creating to use in models. We had a couple furniture changes on the aforementioned interior project. Was as easy as downloading from manufacturer website, except for SketchUp didn't like the files. Close competition in my test runs has been Maxwell Render and Indigo. Lighting hasn't been the easiest in either. Does anyone favor Maxwell or Indigo over the 3DSMax route?

Hi All, I had been looking for an animation tool that allows me to animate really technical stuff - I think I may have found it in Simfonia Animation Tools. It's not the easiest tool to learn but the documentation is pretty comprehensive, however, it is surprisingly powerful. This is an animation I have made whilst learning to use the tool(s) of Simfonia. The parameters of this animation are controlled by a .csv file - note how rotor blade speed slowly increases, the angle of the chopper tilts forward at an accelerating rate, the chopper begins moving forward while still rising upwards and then accelerates off screen at an increasing rate - these are all things that are not possible to control with other plugins (correct me if I'm wrong) and I'm just getting started. If you can be bothered spending the time to go through the documentation I recommend checking this tool out. http://youtu.be/NA3odsY4yCk

In all recent versions of SUp the 'Entity Info' dialog should report a selected Arc's 'true length' and NOT the total of its segments. To test this change the Arc's segment count in 'Entity Info' and you'll see irrespective of if it's 3 or 999 the reported 'length' remains the same - whereas exploding into lines copies of that same arc with differing segment-counts will report their cumulative lengths as differing...

no, none that I can tell.

Pass, AutoCAD 2013 hasn't been released in Europe yet. I presume it'll be triangulated (although they may be hidden depending upon the visual style applied in AutoCAD). SKUP "solids" may be converted into real solids in AutoCAD, but I'm guessing.

Something who is some difficult is to have a "view top" And edit : you are not obliged to have component or group for give different material to a cube with different colors!

@mike lucey said: Bjørn, I also use Opera 11.61. To check out P3D, I downloaded Opera Next from here, http://www.opera.com/browser/next/ It does not overwrite Opera 11 and can be run separately. The WebGL images loaded / worked perfectly Nice to know that it doesn't overwrite Opera 11. Maybe I should give it a try then, although it looks like I'll have to make object-movies for this project, to make it more widely viewable.

hi baz, thanks for your quick help, it´s pretty cool! best of luck ! [image: zujcp1.jpg]

hi, i´ve found this video, which makes you happier ( hope so:-) enjoy ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuudbR9jouw&feature=related [image: zujcp1.jpg]

hi, a very nice effect! lightup is truly amazing soft for SU fans. i don´t want to try your patience, but need to create an effect like this. any chance please? thank a lot! [image: Zx0TO.jpg] [image: zujcp1.jpg]

I had a similar issue some time ago. In my case I didn't need to explode all nested elements, just the inner one where the image is. I am guessing that this is what Gaieus meant when he said "do not explode the component though but edit and explode the image inside". Seems like you just didn't go "deep" enough when you tried the first time, so my guess is that you don't need to explode 3 times, but just once on the inner nested element which is the image entity. Doing it this way you maintain the advantages of a component.

Amazing! I guess it is only a matter of time that we'll be able to see full rendered animations on our real desktops. Just imagine a videogame played like that!

@valerostudio said: Uhhhh. This makes absolutely no sense? Why are the forums here? To answer questions about the software we use. Just because we ask questions about Maxwell is no reason to ban a user to answer questions. Are you JOKING??? Valerostudio, Your 'Why are the forums here?', is a good question. Have you thought that an answer might be, because a dedicated group of people put in many, many hours of work for little or no remuneration to the extent that it costs them money / time and they have to secure support from commercial 3rd party entities that gain from exposure on these forums? I won't go into the ins and outs of what happened with NextLimit (Maxwell for Google SketchUp) as that's confidential. However, I can advise that matters have now been resolved to everyone's satisfaction and I see Jason will be continuing to advise / help in the areas he is expert in. So I am now locking this topic and suggest we all get on with more productive matters. Mike

It seems that it could be a Topocad file http://adtollo.se/en/surveying-mapping/download/

@chris fullmer said: ps - I work on images that get up to nearly 1gb. And they just keep getting larger and larger each year as I develop my editing process. I'm sure I'll break the gig size soon and probably keep going. Chris, what graphics program are you using with these size files? I have a 500mb aerial jpg that I tried to change to a png in GIMP but went to 2.5gb! Only reason why I tried it was that SU like png's right...?

It is quite possible to do great looking interior renders with Modo. It just isn't as fast as Vray. That being said, it does have its strengths -flexibility, ease of use, the preview renderer- and I'm guessing that the introduction of light portals will prove most useful. I am dying to try it out.

@unknownuser said: Podium doesn't run inside of SketchUp, and there's a 64 bit version available. So that's not the issue, I think. Correct I am running 64 bit Podium v2.8 and it does not render within SketchUp. The computer i have for rendering is specifically design for crunching numbers and rendering, only thing it needs is a better GPU (which im working on) in the hopes to be using Lumion, just need to get work to sign off on it. I will get in contact with Podium to see what the problem could be, I might try rendering a basic model and see how large i can go though Gaieus, Installing Kerkythea 64bit was a little tricky as not all the files actually get installed but once it is and you render in it, it flys compared to the 32bit version!

We would be happy to look at the model to find out why it isn't rendering in Shaderlight. If you would like to email support@artvps.com we can try and find out what is going on. If it is a large model we can go through options of getting it over to us when you email. Martin