oh yeah, i've never attempt to things like that, it's great. I'll fix it.

hahaha, Durant your commentary looks really interesting. the Grays are between ourselves. 3D "flying with me" Visual

Ironic that I used to teach advanced Pro-E classes and didn't even think to start out with a skeleton model. Thanks monsterzero for your post and link to your website with great video showing "how to". I should add this to my very simple robot - the skeleton will make moving it into position - and back - much, much easier. Very nice models Rodentpete and monsterzero - I'm not in the same league but still having lots of fun.

Yeah, segmented geometry (however "simple" it may look) can really trick you. Just a couple of extrusions here and intersections there and you end up with a file size of a town...

Chef Ramzy, Jack bird bring it. I'm so into this, I am smoking with both hands in an attempt to stop from working my main controller -- something I broke once when I was hitting a "tree knot" -- that being when I was young and didn't know better. Either way, I want to party on this, or put it on tour with the Red Haired Blonds. Right on. Durant "power to the people" Hapke

Thank you. You know you've had too much cold medicine when you can't recognize your own style. It's Old Paper Darker Lines from this thread. Sorry about that. I wish there was some way to boost the contrast right in SketchUp. If there is, I haven't found it.

@andeciuala said: ...Sorry for my poor english, i've studied a long time ago this language. Andeciuala It's good enough for us to understand And the images just speak for themselves. Please, keep posting any enhancements - this is so nice!

nicely done It's amazing what a simple program an a clear idea can create. I agree on the trans-peeps having the steps alter thier color halfway down is distracting. Try moving them all the way to the top of the steps.

@unknownuser said: Please do. I checked out the above link and did not want to register just to download. Thanks Dave. Done. Cheers, Dave

I would love to see your design images, I think I was also contacted by this owner for design work..mysteriously cancelled, would love to see what "won out" over me.

Didier's script isn't supporting textures at this time. Hopefully it will someday. (SunFlow does but as noted above Didier's efforts in his plugin development are hindered by a lack of documentation on SunFlow). I don't know if there are any other routes to getting a textured model into SunFlow. I haven't looked around the SunFlow site or Forum enough to find out. If your model has colours they will work fine. I attach an example render. The model is from the FormFont Exchange. After exporting from SketchUp I edited the scene file so the glass and hydraulic rams would look shiny. [image: sunflow5.jpg] The render times for the above image was about 15 minutes. The 'clay' ones above were just two or three minutes. Adding the HDR lighting & then the glossy effect added more time. The glossy one probably took 20 minutes. If you visit the gallery at the SunFlow site you'll see the program is quite capable. Hopefully Didier's script can, in due course, develop to take more advantage of it. Regards, Ross

Fred, that is beautiful, thanks.

Thanks Gaieus, I'm taking all criticisms possitibly to improve my style... Happy Holidays, allanx

Thank you Dylan. I just drew the model as built. A back rest seems like a good idea although I'm not certain how it would work. I thought about modelling a bit of sag to the seat but decided not to complicate the model further. I hadn't noticed that it does look a bit sagged but that is certainly due to the texture. Here it is after a short MLT render in KT. [image: th_modebench40MLT.jpg]

old school [image: jAOA_toaster.jpg]

Thanks for posting Sid

Thanks for the comments guys. Mike Vesele Vianoce a Staslivy Novy Rok

Thanks Some PS was used but it was mainly done with a KT rendering put over a raw SU image.

All three parts now merged into one and moved to the Gallery Forum. Really nice work and perfect presentation, thanks, Wesley... I'm sorry that you were late for the CatchUp Prize Draw, too. Hopefully next time...

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