In your anti-war protester picture I think you have [inadvertently] included three or four guys in hi-viz yellow coats - if these are police officers then I must point out that it has recently become an offence in the UK to photograph police officers [in a way that might be useful to terrorists]... I suggest you immediately surrender yourself to the appropriate authorities and expect a prison sentence, somewhat in excess of a basic murder rap... If you want to know [or perhaps 'do'] the 'time' ask a policeman... as the song goes...

It's actually back in my garage right now!!! My Brother ride it up for a wedding a few weeks ago and had a lift back to work so he said, best you look after this for a while.... So I get rid of it and then get it back!!!!! reliability was fine, Julian. I only had it 2 years and did a bit of weekend riding on it and a few weekends away to the tablelands, [winding, hilly roads ] and it went like a rocket. Not the most comfortable on long distances but if you give it some you want to be prepared to hang on......

To get a taste for SU without inferencing, turn off all edges and profiles in your style. Then navigate your large model. And remember, its still inferencing all the faces (on surface inference for example). It just doesn't have the edges to inference. It allows for much larger models with the lines off. Of course, SU is useless without edges on since you can't draw too much. Chris

Looks solved.

Walkabout3D: http://www.walkabout3d.com/ (GBP 79) and Simmetry3D: http://www.simmetry3d.com/ (GBP 300) I don't really know if this latter one (beside the ability to manipulate things by clicking) knows so much more. There also sems to be some relation between the two.

Speaking of that land-diving thing. . .I used to watch those guys on National Geographic as a kid. I never could figure out how they didnt pull their legs out of their sockets doing that . .or impale themselves against the tower. Third World Bungee Diving. Insane. . . But I remember hearing that those guys really stoked themselves on Peyote and Red Bull

What a great little clip!

Some of the books can be downloaded as a PDF file. Here's and example on this page on the top: http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2418/pages.html

I saw that on the news last night...but at 10p a page for out of print or out of copyright books; for the price of a couple of such books you could buy an e-book reader and just download the text from Project Gutenberg.

@unknownuser said: lol. This one's for Jeff Hammond: YAY! there are a few F.L.W.'s in there

I doubt that SU was involved in the animation at all. I'm guessing that CS is custom scenery and that's what SU was used for. IMO the scenery isn't very impressive anyway. It's just an unobtrusive background for the coaster.

that guy needs to learn a modeling app, something with physics support

kmead said @unknownuser said: The thing is its not what I am interested in doing. I hire people to create renderings... Day to day we just don't do them... don't have the time, money or real need for that level... I don't really care to. I am a designer... SU is a good tool to design with and although I may send models to be rendered ...its not going to be me doing it. This was always my attitude, until quite recently. Now I'm trying to learn to render as soon as possible. Now I'm a freelancer, it certainly helps to have that skill. But mainly because it really seems that the general public, business people and even planning committees see everything through CGI tinted glasses. Regardless of how good the design is, it's the better renders that win jobs. Recently I've seen several, what I regarded, as innovative designs by up and coming architects consigned to the scrap heap, while some really ugly buildings by mega-corp developers have been heralded as "pioneering architecture" on the strength of the render. As I'm employed solely as a modeller a lot of the time, the only way I can compete is to recommend outsourcing the render to a Chinese render farm that I've made some contacts with (getting renders done in the UK is too expensive). This still comes at a cost but the quality of the rendering and the speed of the turnaround might be something that I could never achieve. However most of my clients are really small firms, so even a service like this is too expensive for them. Only option, do it myself.

well, at least you had the timing right.. september is the best month to be in nyc

Interesting thought. I supose there is no reason why not. I am personally looking at the posibility to use it as teaching aid. Here is the forum where Ani started the idea. http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/4801/P0/

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=18508

It's actually inflatable. Made in China.

But the adrenaline rush.... aaaah... Not there unless you have prevaricated...

You could still add something to the side area to take up some space, just not making it look like it's out of place, like the first design which seems like it's going over it's page.

@broomstick said: @unknownuser said: and you can run vray via cinema4d... This I have to check out. Vray runs on C4D on macs? @unknownuser said: coming soon though is vray for sketchup OS X which will run natively on macs http://www.vray.com/vray_for_sketchup/buy_vray_for_sketchup_mac.shtml This is extremely good news!! YES....!