Thank you so much, I'll have a look!

Note that these 3D trees work perfectly (without poly reducing) in Kerkythea or Thea. You will need to adjust the materials though but than after saving, they are just fine.

Hi good tutorial...and i'm french...good works...really Thanks.. i can help sometimes if you want...

You could only do so if all its parts were valid, solid groups/components, too. When this tool came out, I tried with a couple of my models and they all failed.

Indeed YT does not allow "updating" of what's uploaded. So make sure you upload a final version.

Ask Coen where they are.

Cool find!

Alvis, have you seen this excellent knot tutorial by TaffGoch? http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8226

The file I attached above is to scale and was made in the same way as EarthMover, with the exception that I used shape bender to curve the original component so the whole ring is round instead of faceted.

The background and foreground planting are primarily photographs in .png format taken thru fotosketcher seperatly and consequently have the same all-over texture as the main image.As I work,I normally overlay colour(which are just blobs of colour with a strong gaussian blur filter applied and transparency reduced) over the entire image which helps to integrate the final image.One trick I often do is to take the final finished image in jpeg format thru fotosketcher a second time and overlay this fotosketcher image with the finished photoshop image (normal blend or softlight blend,with a transparency of as little as 15 %).Its all about overlaying layers and playing with the transparency.

Just to add to that - Tools On Surface could help in engraving panel lines - if you don´t want to achieve that by textures, but to extrude such curved surfaces, another Fredo´s plugin could save you a lot of frustration http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=6708&hilit=joint+push+pull

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=17948 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=28851

thanks to this tread i just discovered fotosketcher. Where have i been all this time? I have found my true calling!

That tree video is pretty sweet.

Hello sir ..thanks for this precious post I have downloaded a file called : V-Ray Express High.visopt How do I use it please ?

You can insert any insertable content (png images and such) into a simple layout file then go to File menu > Save as scrapbook. Then you will find your custom scrapbook content in the Scrapbooks browser on the right.

ShapeBender: [image: y8i6_hose.jpg]

@wdbao said: great tutorial but what is the 2cyl.rb what a strange name i've never heard it please tell me where i can find it try to find "line2tube.rb"

@chris fullmer said: I even added Marians name into the title so he might spot this thread easier. Maybe he can help out best. Chris Ok, thanks!

I just wish I could get my vistugh machine to display thumbnail images of the models I download at 3d warehouse like my XP machine does.