try going through DAE export from Maya, it always worked fine with me ...

Maybe not the best but very easy SimLab Composer Animation

Now I really have no excuse for learning DC's...

yep that was brill thanks what one would i use for mac viewers please

Roger, I'm glad everything worked out. It's always a good idea to schedule regular backups. I've lost more files than I care to admit by neglecting to backup. I try to contact the authors of any plugins that do not work well from outside SketchUp's default folder. The typical reply is that "I'll consider it, but it's not a common request." The installers of some plugins even allow installing to any arbitrary location even if that breaks their plugin.

Looks superb, I havent considered Lightup before but I will definately check it out after seeing those videos.

You do have to look at a monitor to see the model, a webcam (or other camera connected to a computer) is used to "see" a target that the model is projected up from, so whatever else the webcam sees will be in the image as well. Confusing maybe, but that is what it looks like.

Yes and with the new DX11 patch it looks even better. The feeling of painting entire forests of animated trees is great.

Thanks for your comments and insight. You are driving me crazy with interest.

I like Simlab's, they seem to add new features frequently, but I haven't tried any others.

@miikka1978 said: Is there some limitations with the size of the model? For example, I would like to bake a golf course model (2000m x 2000m) and import the model into Unity. The file size is about 5-6MB. No intrinsic limits. However, you can significantly accelerate your workflow by structuring your model, using Layers, "Zoning" your (golf) landscape into top-level Groups to make it easier to edit and process, using a consistent level-of-detail both in terms of geometry detail and texture detail (no 6000x6000 textures for the basket in the corner). etc. Adam

Cool. Just what I need at the moment.

Octane demo users can't get the exporters... You need to be a 'licensed member' to get access to special parts of the Octane web-site to be able to download the various exporters and other goodies - and that includes the Sketchup Octane Render Exporter that I wrote for them last year [(c) Refractive Software]. It was recently updated to overcome a sudden and unexpected glitch with the new version of web-browser caused by Safari in the latest MAC OS, but it now works the same way on PC and MAC as it did before

In the first way you can change all the maps applied to an object at once (diffuse, bump etc) while in the second you can change them one by one. Remember that the number you see shows the times the texture is repeated on a surface, so higher the number smaller the texture. [image: vyQU_Cattura.JPG] [image: Gued_Cattura_2.JPG]

wow!! that`s sound terrific!!! I'll give it a try and see what happend! thanks a lot!

@unknownuser said: These 2 products seems are clearly first for Professional uses so price are in adequation It does not necessarily follow that if I am a "professional user" that I am "rich" so I have to pay "big money" for software that seems to be priced based on the philosophy of "professional" = "soak him big money".

I have to agree it is not the best idea I usually like to have my 3D PDFs sent by email where they are opened with the full Acrobat reader. Though there are few factors here. You need to have acrobat as the default PDF viewer in FireFox, I guess there are some other tools that may be used to open PDF in the browser. maybe installing acrobat 10 simply changed the default viewer to acrobat. Also the site traffic, when I opened the link in the morning it was fast, and the PDFs were interactive in the web page. I will prepare an example and I will post it to see if this is what you are looking for.

You can try this, http://www.nicetuna.com/kt2obj along with this, http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=35936&hilit=fluid+importer Mike

Well I will say one thing [Kerkythea Donate] Pressed, Stinkie My Alien Tower is due to be major up grade but wont be going Via Alien this time as i hate Dell with a passion. Issues is i'm relying on my MacBook Pro to much to renders as this dual core AMD build just takes to long 3x so what i'm having to look at is new pc Build with Dual Processors, and Stay with Kerkythea and invest in Thea to, may as well invest in a product i know and dont have to learn all over again. But if any one has done a timed test for products please share

The wait is over - try the first public RC of KT Echo Boost here. Currently only 64bit Windows available.