I'll second DoubleCAD. I'm a complete CAD noob and was able to use some of it.

@mike lucey said: Ah, I don't mind a good murder mystery even if there are a load of murders in it but I really don't need to see slashing and blood flying all over the place. Okay, I'll make an exception for Hallibal Lecter When I was 9, a friend of mine and I went to see Frankenstein. It was the first time in my life I was exposed to Cinematic Crap. I spent well over 3/4 of the time in the theater's lobby, while the film was playing. I had the the most horrific nightmare that evening. I remember that event to this day. I have tried to avoid all such Cinematic Crap, all my life. The amount of Crap produced to entertain the masses has increased 100% over the past 10 years. It really started to pick up with the Hallibal Lecter Crap. Perhaps soon to be followed by more Crap: The Kinder side of Jeffrey Dahmer. However what really gets me pissed off, is how all of this has allowed us to become divorced from reality as just another picture, such as as a beautiful Pelican covered with oil: [image: Pelican.png]

Did anyone see the 800bhp biodiesel on "pimp my ride"? unbelievable. Bio diesels are definitely the future....or at least the future of the transition between petrol and electric. There aren't really any advantages of petrol over diesel any more. Apart from initial cost which is negligible.

was it downhill? haha and yes Escape Artist....your theory is similar to a turbo charger.

I tried spontaneously singing and dancing in a public place one time. I got arrested. Some people have no appreciation for the arts.

look at their prices. if you ask me, they do not seem to be facilitating anything.

French Documentation V2 and UI are released and are "On Line"! PDF is also updated!

Ah, the Houston area. Thanks.

@dale said: Thanks Roger for that detailed explanation. A question... to create a hemispherical global, is it a matter of lens, or do you have to rotate the camera on the z axis as well? The answer is, it depends. You can use a 180 degree fisheye lens and lay on your back looking up and get a hemisphere in one shot. Or you take the other extreme and shoot a hundreds of shots with an extreme telephoto (in the x,y and z axes and stitch them together). The difference between the two is amount of work and resolution. The fish eye will be in the 5 to 10 megabyte range. The stitched image could be 40, 100 or even more gigabytes. [image: Mesa Arts Center] This is MAC (The Mesa Arts Center)in Mesa, Arizona. If I remember right this is composed of a matrix of 12 photos (4 across by 3 high). I guess the FOV might be 120 degrees. I had to do a fair amount of PS to get rid of the worst distortion. For comparison SketchUps dfault FOV is 35 degrees and I estimate our sharp field of view to be about 12 degrees. As humans we stitch the images in front of us all the time, but we do it in our brain and in our memory. At 12 degrees we are really looking through a keyhole, but as the eye scans a scene it gathers many views and stitches them together. In fact this is also HDRI as I took a normal and underxposed view of ever position so I could keep the sails from over exposing. We are looking at two layers of 12 shots each.

To do a publishing Photoshop is not a must! It can be done with Photoline or CorelDraw or SerifPage Plus or Canvas or Xara or Scribus or ... More than 100 free video tutorial for Gimp http://meetthegimp.org/

@unknownuser said: The account is free, so I am not understanding why you need and alternative route to get the same thing for free. Oh, and I should have mentioned it before - create an account, Nikonmorous. I already have one.

I'm in FF, I get the same result as Speaker. [image: Capture.JPG]

@gaieus said: Well, in my test history tracking was NOT checked. That's why I thought you could get it back somehow. Maybe if earlier... Who knows? Anyway, you re-made the model now... Yeah, its just got some flaws. I can fix it though. Thanks a ton for the help, it was really nice to get some. Well, since the model is remade, i think this thread is officially dead. Thanks!

WhattUp... Happy Birthday Dale..!! [image: http://www.kerkythea.net/users/Frederik/Anim-Icons/party-smiley-020.gif]

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@flipya said: @unknownuser said: Hij had zelfs die typische ballenlook: gestreept hemd, achteruitgekamd haar. You got me wondering now... I know two guys in this industry who look like that but their offices don't look the way you described lol. It's not likely you know the guy, as I live in Belgium, not the Netherlands. Oh well, water under the bridge. Shame about that job, though! Modeling, rendering, and it was only 15 minutes by bike! I'll probably have to pick up my old profession again (copywriting and editing, that is). If I can get me a nice part-time gig, I'd be okay with that.

Flipya Yes I am often referred to as a hardass

Relax,... I used a smiley at the end of the sentence, which automatically makes it okay for me to say On a more serious note. I understand my comment could be read in several ways. 'They' refers to Google, not to the people actively working on fine tuning Sketchup. The comment on itself only states the fact that Sketchup today is simply not what it could have been. Hope I didn't step on too many toes...

Nice. Quite enjoyed the video.

Wow! davidh, the house with the snow is beautiful! All great images. I can see that PS has to become a bigger part of my working skills. Thanks for posting the images! TBG