@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: 7CUM_Mesa_Museum_Composite_sm_1.jpg] 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: 1TVG_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: 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

@unknownuser said: I almost answered the ad but then I thought: "Go find the old smudge powder, triangles, Mayline, rapidographs? Naw, I don't really want to go back to that." nor do I. And I can't. all the room on my desk is taken up by monitors!

@unknownuser said: I left a comment which may help CCG out. http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ratings?mid=10b71bf16676377993114802c50035db Good. THat really stinks for him...

You might want to check out the Hardware Recommendations thread in the Sketchup Discussions board.

@escapeartist said: I also like very much how he worked in what life was like then for different classes of people, how the church was built and designed and all that. People here would surely appreciate the latter! Indeed, my sentiments exactly. I recently had a tour around Fountains Abbey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountains_Abbey near to my home. It was incredible the amount of stuff regarding monastic architecture and the monastic way of life that i "knew" as the tour guide was telling us, all of it from POTE and a bit of light reading around the subject after reading Follet. Brilliant stuff!

@unknownuser said: Fine with me...I never did get why thats such a crime... Yeah, i will probably get destroyed

@pbacot said: That IS cool. Yes. Read Architosh's article here; http://architosh.com/2010/05/sledgehammer-autocad-for-mac-beta-in-the-wild/

From the AIA exhibitor schedule, Cadalog/Podium, RenderPlus and Google SU will be there.

@unknownuser said: or wasn't an iMac (ghastly glossy screen). gggrrrrrr! I keep having to close all my curtains! the reflections are soooooooooooo annoying on my 24" imac! when I bought my macbook pro I made sure it had a matte finish screen as I just couldn't imagine using a glossy one outdoors. funny seeing android on iphone.....its even funnier when you get blue screen on your mac! or you have to press ctrl+alt+delete