those are looking good, how long have you been using Indigo? looks like you have it figured out.

Will03 Here a few other links to read up about accurender, which will help with IRender http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.aspx/McNeel/AccuRenderHome.html and http://www.accustudio.com/ look in the forum area. I would guess IRender is based on AR3 Richcat

over hyped gadget The greatest Army invention ever http://www.dogtagsrus.com/army%20greatest%20invention.htm

Jim, This is one of the new interfaces for the new exporter (there are several). It's actually "skinnable" so it comes with about a dozen different user interface skins that you can choose from, each with different features. Here are some samples: http://www.hypercosm.com/products/teleporter/sketchup/pro/features/applet_skins/index.html Here's how to apply new skins: http://www.hypercosm.com/products/teleporter/sketchup/pro/features/applet_skins/how_to_use/index.html There's also an online "skin repository" that we've started where you can download new skins: http://www.hypercosm.com/download/skins/index.html Since the skins are all just HTML and Javascript, any web developer could make new skins. In fact, if you kept the funtionality the same, you could just make new skins by changing the graphics and HTML of existing skins and you wouldn't need to even worry about the Javascript. Ideally, I'd like to see some artistically minded user interface designers building different types of new and improved user interfaces (and hopefully letting us upload them to our public online repository so others could use them). As far as building exporters for the free version of SketchUp, I would certainly love to be able to do this, but unfortunately the free version of SketchUp doesn't support exporters (or importers) or any kind. So, we can't do much about that - you'll have to take that issue up with SketchUp! Best, -abe. Abe Megahed CTO, Hypercosm megaheda@hypercosm.com (608) 229-2829

Ground control to major Tom ....that red is really yummi;)

i am a small timer around here! dont mind me!

ooo yess its my intent this its a restaurant an the idea its a sky green/blue i love green skey

oh wow!. I mean.... WOW!

Skp + Art-lantis R + Photoshop Object: Ukraine, Borispol city - Detail Plan. In Photoshop - Brush burn, overlay layers, LAB color for saturation & polar filter simulate. p.s. - I'm educated elementary english. Sorry! Posted by: Optimal [image: qhDm_Tiara02.jpg] [image: CO9k_SystemBud02-1.jpg]

yes per request of Gaieus in another thread, he said it was screwing up the forum views for people when the image was too large... over 800 wide... so to insert it, it will have to be under 800 pixels... sorry... like I said, sometime in the near future we may have html... then we can have some fun... I like the roof slate... when I was younger, 12 to be precise... I lived in a concrete roofing tile factory, yes lived in... but anyway, the shapes and styles of the roof remind me of that material... this kind of stuff http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/tps/roofingexhibit/asbestos4a.htm

Gully, I'm not going to try to make an engineer understand (proper) design, aesthetics and such - from experience it just won't work. I don't want this thread to become a flame war so I'm going to close it. Sorry "jessalba" for closing your thread, I really like your attempt and the potential it has that can be developed.

Warren, Thanks so much for the kind feedback. Helpful and much appreciated. I was checking out DesignShare's 2007 new school design awards and found this school using curved green roofs which supports your comment about topography and viewing...and in this case, use. In my blissful naivete I'm not so concerned about the drainage as the structural viability of the roof concept. I've played around some with analog models of triangulated irregular networks (TINs) and believe that a very light roof may be possible using a TIN framework overlaid/integrated with a layer of reinforced plastic foam. I have a project on the Open Architecture Network site that presents this concept in more detail. I think if the roof structural concept proved viable the drainage issues could be managed. Following is an image of the layers I think would be necessary in a roof of this type. From the top down (vegetation, soil, rubber membrane, reinforced foam, interior membrane). [image: House%202.0%20-%20Draft%205.jpg] Thanks again, Fred

Also you can insert an infinite plane in Kerky so that your model does not seem to be floating in open space. Otherwise getting really nice, indeed.

Hi Tim, that's a nice result actually! Glad you managed to finish it!

ps. thanks Fred - your stuff on here is by far the most interesting - keep it up. Except that leaf thing. hehehehehe.

Like Kris said, I don't use Layout at all. James, it is possible, and I do it all the time, to place an image just outside the building in the SketchUp model. No need for Photoshop. See attached. Edit: I know the perspective is all off, this is just a quick example. [image: Image-Model.jpg] And here is the skippy, the skipalator, the skipster, the skip monster, the skippenator, the... ok I'll stop. Download SketchUp Model

@jeff jacobs said: @tim danaher said: Jeff -- You forgot the most important thing about the modo-SU import plug-in: they charge $99 for it... Tim, You never looked better! As for the the 99 bucks, yea I don't WANT to pay for it, but if it saves a lot of time then I don't mind. Forceps delivery. What can you do, huh? As an aside, I recently had a look at Microspot Interiors Pro...this small firm has added native .skp import to the program (for free), and it works flawlessly...everything comes in just as it should, even my largest models. Why can't a slick organisation line Luxology get this right? And Martin is looking into adding native .skp support for Cheetah, now that the SDK is freely available. An .skp in a Smart Folder...how cool would that be?

Who is this "poly" everyone keeps talking about? I've never seen her post her before.... Great work guys! Enjoying the thread. ...still waters, run deep.... Tina Anne Stiles, ASAI Quality Digital Watercolor Architectural Illustrations

Thanks a lot for the compliment, Bill.. and of course I don't mind jenujacob

I don't mind Whaat. Fire away! I just had two margaritas and a chilles rellenos at Panchos in Vancouver, it's BC Day weekend, and our hotel overlooks the English Bay and the fireworks that begin in 3 hours! Two hours and one thread. Not bad Whaat. Keep em coming. I've always liked the look of Indigo renders, but I'm on a mac and haven't even loaded up a Bootcamp Widoze yet or I'd give it a whirl. Try to get the aluminum mullions more "aluminumy" and the floor needs a bit of a sheen. The radiosity must of been up high becuase you have a lot of bounce color in the ceiling. I would like to see more.