Guys, I started a fresh thread on 'upgradable autos' here, https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=73687 I located an excellent thesis by Daniel Couttolenc which shows a way to 30 year car life cycles. Mike

After a few years, I finally decided to try learning texturing, texture painting, and Rigging in Blender3D. Here is the result. Thank you michaliszissiou for all your helps! [image: bpXE_Capture.PNG]

Rather a very old topic, but I just signed in and it is not still free, maybe it is free for premium members.

Excellent work.

Rocket 3F looks pretty cool.

I have nothing against refurbs. I love refurbs! They are usually the best bargains and all the bugs have been worked out!!! What I have right now is a 9 yo i5, with 8GB RAM and 2GB video, all with 2+year old drivers that can no longer be updated. Not even the BIOS. For simple chores, it's fine, but starting to struggle. For SketchUp and video editing, it's done for. In fact, a refurb was what I was going looking for when I could afford it.

decided to redownload the installer again as when i opened scenes it kept crashing so something must have been crruppted the first time i downloaded... if your curious these are the defaults from the preferences.dat file [Accelerator] Count=20 0 0 0 H selectDollyTool: 0 0 0 I selectImageIglooTool: 0 0 0 O selectOrbitTool: 0 0 0 Z selectZoomTool: 0 0 1 Z viewZoomExtents: 0 0 0 A selectArcTool: 0 0 0 C selectCircleTool: 0 0 0 E selectEraseTool: 0 0 0 B selectPaintTool: 0 0 0 P selectPushPullTool: 0 0 0 R selectRectangleTool: 0 0 0 Space selectSelectionTool: 0 0 0 L selectLineTool: 0 0 0 K View/Edge Style/Back Edges 0 0 0 M selectMoveTool: 0 0 0 G Edit/Make Component... 0 0 0 T selectMeasureTool: 0 0 0 F selectOffsetTool: 0 0 0 Q selectRotateTool: 0 0 0 S selectScaleTool: u can use notepad++ to edit the file directly

What I don't understand is why couldn't they all jump on a simple standard? (Screen denotes up, perhaps)? And here be madness, I have two HTC devices. Their ports are opposite! Cheers.

Hi, I could have not said it better

Thank you L i am, I will.

Thanks, TIG So, I wanted "lock by layer" moved up in the menu structure. Change name from lockbylayer.rb to A lockbylayer.rb. Also changed the code "file loaded" to the new name. Moved up and still works. This was not obvious just by looking at the plugins in the plugin directory. Anyway, got it fixed. Would really like this plugin to be a toolbar plugin. And thanks TIG.

Works for me as lock by layer However it is often easier to search for just a word and and scroll through what comes up. I found this by just searching in the store for 'lock' Edit: a quick tip incase you are using the search box at the top of the page. That searches the forum. Click PluginStore just below it and search there. [image: vLSjUe5.gif]

Hey guys! We have just finished the second season of our podcast. The third season is coming – we will do more interviews with CG artists and plan to talk with software developers as well. I encourage you to check the episodes from last year, especially the ones with our guests - Sayan Mondal and Erin Woodford. CG talks S02E06: Why and how to optimize your scenes? In this episode, Andrew, DJ, and Marco talk about how optimizing your 3d scene can save your sanity, what aspects of your project could be adding unnecessary render time what you can do to render your scenes faster on a render farm even without much technical rendering knowledge! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiu6chE33MY&t=529s CG talks S02E07: A living with Blender - interview with Sayan Mondal In this episode we introduce an exclusive interview with Sayan Mondal - founder of blueinversion.com The interview includes Sayan's origin story and how he decided to pursue his own path as an artist and entrepreneur instead of continuing a regular education curriculum. What led him to dive deep into procedural shaders in Blender. We talk about constant learning and improvement as well as art and important inspirations and role models. The conversation develops into sharing thoughts about the modern CG industry, young and older CG artists, and their pros and cons. Along the way, we touch upon topics like A.I. Crypto Art, Inktober, November, and NPR rendering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cas3MTOCNYo&t=50s CG talks S02E09: Nodevember procedural magic with Erindale.xyz In this episode of CG Talks, Marco, DJ and Michal sit down with Erin Woodford of Erindale fame. Erin is an artist, designer and entrepreneur specializing in creating procedural objects and surfaces in Blender. We learn about his discovery of procedural design and the experience he's had on the journey so far. Erin also demystifies proceduralism and explains how despite the nuances in this workflow calling for a less intuitive or conventionally artistic mindset, it isn't something reserved for people with coding experience or mathematical thinkers. If you've been curious but apprehensive about learning proceduralism, this episode is for you. Procedural workflows are certainly key for the future of CG so if you want to jump on the bandwagon, it's about time (and lots of fun anyway)! This might just be the thing that motivates you into participating in next year's Nodevember! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snHH4_izLbg&t=2487s CG talks S02E11: What is shading and how to nail it? In this episode, DJ, Andrew and Marco talk about shading - what it means for 3d artists, and a few key considerations to take when working! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekn7Yl2-mMg&t=1079s I hope you will find them interesting.

Paper bottles, I have heard of. One of the coke ideas is a thin film of plastic inside the 'bottle' but not seen anything firm on the ideas.

Baz, it is ok, OUR BELOVED Su is capable of doing shadow study, and you have done a really cool design and presentation job. Thanks for sharing, BTW I guess it'd be better if you'd share it on the "gallery" section of the forum.

I don´t know about curved ones but if you go with Dell you should buy UltraSharp ones, They have a great color cover. That one has U in the model name. Glen´s is UltraSharp. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dell-u3818dw-curved-monitor,5282.html

I agree with you Ken. It looks like a mess that has to be cleaned up otherwise the USA election system will not have present or future credibility and if that becomes the case, I dread to think what will happen. I had actually listened to the Russel Ramsland (Co-Founder of the Allied Security Operations Group)interview by Simone Gao, Zooming In. 'Exclusive: Exam Indicates Georgia Tabulating Machine Sent Results to China' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqsC5vIeoGw Russel Ramsland seems extremely knowledgeable and very credible.

As a spiritual person rather than being Muslim, Christian, etc, I sincerely salute you all the birth of the prophet of love and peace, holy Christ, and wish you the best for the season! Wish all and me the upcoming year to be full of hope and happiness!

Glad you got a result Steve, best to you and yours. Keep rockin' on mate.

Nice thing with Twinmotion is you can do all your modeling in sketchup then to Twinmotion. The most exciting thing is you can combine other 3D Format assets FBX , OBJ,RHINO etc within your scene. No more converting meshes!!!! Buy ready textured assets from 3rd party and Twinmotion will take care of it.