Using sketchUp add-on to place furniture looks nice. It will makes work easy and faster.

FYI, the suits were impressed--enough to purchase the Pro if we needed it. Funny though, I have now tested this by comparison and I was using the cut-down free version all the time (well, except for the first 8 trial days). I never noticed anything go away after the first 8 days so I assumed I was just living with Pro on borrowed time--that's a newbie for you! Anyway I'm concluding at this stage of our use that we can get along fine with the freebie version and wait to pick up Pro at a later date. Thank you all again for the help you gave me getting through this. We are taking the exported animation to a trade show next week, where I suspect it may draw some attention.

Why not make a SU collaborative model that tells a story based on this kind of snobbery? It would be a cool 3D "exquisite corpse" told in several scenes.

@unknownuser said: Not unless you haven't saved the original file. It would be under 'My Documents' if the autosave function saves it before you do... Ah yes. Didn't think of unsaved models. The location of that can be set under Preferences->Files->Models.

Here is a very basic ruby that opens a CadYou page in IE. You can try editing it (simple text editor) to change the hyper link. If you change the ruby name, you must change its reference in the ruby. The plugin was written by the owner of the CadYou site where you can access his stuff. I have not tested editing his Ruby, use at you own risk. Btw, I've gotten some good stuff off the CadYou site. cadyou.rb

Yes Sir! Mac only! And boy, this thing is soooo cool.

Wow, that was simple enough, thanks for the tips! Joe

It sounds like you have a Z-fighting problem. Meaning there are two faces occupying the same space. If this is the case you need to "cut out" the offending hatch. Do you have an image or could you upload the skp for us to look at?

Yes, but as I said, it will slow down SU so eventully you will want to find better solution; a better card or n updated driver if your card is okay.

At the moment it isnt possible to trigger a DC animation with scenes, although i believe it is on the wishlist. So no, you cant (easily) make components change relative to the scene. There currently isnt a way of inserting a video in to a scene, either, although i believe some of the ruby chaps are working on it. no guarantees, though. On to what DCs can do: essentially they let you give components parametric behaviours. Basically what this means is you can say to the component "If your x metres from the origin be blue." or "if your x metres high have y steps." Thats a pretty simplistic way of looking at it, but it should hopefully give you the right idea. You can always check out the 3d warehouse for some examples of DCs and what they can do. p.s. speed demon gai beats me to it once more.

Well, HellFire, since we don't know if Kemon uses Windows or Mac, your solution for Mac is rather academical for us, puny humans with Windows (but at least what I wrote is not a "nonsense" for Windows and most probably for the person asked). So back to your solution; "of course you canNOT disable it if you HAVEN'T got the tools..." @unknownuser said: "The next time you think something cannot be done. Think again." Good; the next time I'll think of asking you first. (Thank God this is not a Mac-Hack forum... ) On the other hand, I could (should) be glad that I learnt something new - and I generally am...

Not that I know of, but someone else might. But what you can do is install the film and stage plugin, then create cameras at each scene. Then copy and paste those cameras into other models as needed. That works pretty good as a workaround. Chris

I think so, downloaded/installed SU2KT3_0.exe the 29th of November, downloaded the lights.zip the 15th of December,

can anyone help ... i have the start of a site model with a plan and elevation but i cant seem to get them to line up ... File Hosted ... http://www.mediafire.com/?nniybtq5nkz

I don't know the script (never used) but I can imagine the default video is hard coded in it (it also says "beta").You an open the script in a plain text editor like Notepad and have a look if the link to the video is somewhere inside.

Thanks all for your ideas. I gave up and decided it was more trouble than it was worth to do a SU model and try to match it with the bad photo. I just added plants, grass and trees in photoshop. It seemed very difficult getting the results I wanted in the time that i needed. Photoshop was quick and was ok for what the client needed. I need to get better at photo shop;). In any case I have attached my result. [image: IMG00007t-3 copy (Medium).jpg]

Thank you Scott and Simone! I'll jump on this as soon as I can.

Startup works now for me. Thanks! Great tool.

Anssi Perfect solution. Thanks for that Anfdrew[list=][/list]

Yes, Gully (and also Wodan) knows a thing or two about modeling such tricky parts...