Exterior panorama

Gaieus · 19 Jan 2008, 08:11

Chuck, could you post the original file in the SU Bugs subforum?

Yesterday, at work, I also downloaded your model but since there I only have some crap, integrated video card, I thought it might have been due to that fact. Reading the replies here this must be a bug but now you seem to have changed the url for the original skippy for the images and I cannot access it.

I'm sure the SU Team would be really happy to be able to investigate this.

remus · 19 Jan 2008, 10:17

perhaps somewhere along the line SU divided the cylinder up into a set of individual faces, with all the lines hidden, as happens when you use skin.rb. would only happen if the image was applied as a texture though...

Gaieus · 19 Jan 2008, 16:08

Thanks Chuck, I've seen your post and can confirm that the file is accessible and the bug is still "working fine". I've also let the SU Team know about it.

otb designworks · 19 Jan 2008, 16:15

Thank you sir!

I sent a PM to CraigD calling attention to this, too. I also sent a PM to Edson, as I know he works on Macs and I figured it would be good to know if it does, in fact, work on Macs.

Let me know if you hear anything.

otb designworks · 19 Jan 2008, 16:22

I have started a thread in Bug Report: here

Gaieus, the link at the beginning of this thread and the one in bug reports should take you to the original skippy now. Please let me know if you are still having issues accessing the file.

Remus, that is exactly how I make these cycloramas. Generate cylinder, in this case 2 cylinders stacked as I have two rows of images, and then map each of the 18 images individually with hidden lines visible. When I open this file, I have 18 images visible in my material browser, but everyone else just gets grey and blue solid colors.

I keep hoping a Mac user will try to download the panorama and see what they get.

I have joked around with Craig before that I would make a heck of a beta tester, as I seem to have an innate ability to stumble into bugs without even trying. I thought I was just posting a component and all this happens.

otb designworks · 19 Jan 2008, 16:25

Well, I uploaded the individual Jpegs (which just happen to be 3.2 meg).

They are here: jpegs

I can transfer this skippy to my other computer that has never seen any of this and it works perfectly well, too, though it is also a Mac.

Dang, try to do right by the community a bit and it turns into a PITA: this is annoying.

Edson · 20 Jan 2008, 08:43

hi chuck,

this is what i got. no problem. must say at first there where a couple of big squares showing on the top part, but the image was clearly visible. to get rid of the squares i just opened and closed the group.

hope it helps.

regards.

GreyHead · 20 Jan 2008, 10:17

I'm on a PC and could not see the images in the panorama, file size was good but all that showed up were the blue panels. I certainly opened and closed the group and may have tried exploding it.

In the end I downloaded the jpgs, turned on Hidden geometry and was able to select three panels at a time and re-texture them. The jpg names showed up in the edit material display - but the Use Image as texture checkbox was not checked and would not stay checked.

I deleted the existing jpg names, browsed to the downloaded versions and all was well.

Interestingly the skippy is still about the same size so it looks as though the new textures have replaced the old ones.

Bob

otb designworks · 20 Jan 2008, 15:18

Thanks for the troubleshooting, guys.

I guess I should feel a little better knowing that it works fine on another Mac.

Thanks, Bob, for exploring this further. Weird how you have to manually browse to newly downloaded images to get it to work, while the file size is unchanging.

There is obviously a platform compatibility issue going on here. Hopefully, the Google Support team sees, and does something about this.

It is quite disappointing to discover that any SKP I might give to a client to check out in their free version (not that I ever do this but suppose) of Sketchup will not display any image textures!! That would really make me look professional. "Hey Chuck, why on earth do you wrap the model with a bunch of blue squares on a cylinder!"

I'm glad I stumbled into this here, with you guys, as opposed to out in the real world.

Is the cyclorama going to be useful for anyone, at least?

Didier Bur · 21 Jan 2008, 20:48

Hi,
For those who like panoramas: have a look at:
http://www.wpanorama.com/panoramas.php?page=01g&lng=fr
Resolutions up to 5800x1200, lots of 360° to download, vertical panoramas, sorted by themes, check them in the left pop-up menus.

remus · 21 Jan 2008, 20:56

oooh, good site, im going to have to do a few more renders so i can use those as backdrops.

urgen · 21 Jan 2008, 21:15

thanks,Didier.it,s a good resource!

CraigD · 23 Jan 2008, 21:18

Just for some closure, we're looking into this problem and will give updates when we know more. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

Cheers,

- CraigD

otb designworks · 23 Jan 2008, 23:16

Thanks for the update, Craig. And thanks for making sure support saw this.

you are da man, man

Gaieus · 5 Feb 2008, 10:25

Now I'm pretty sure that in this topic the problem was/is the same.

otb designworks · 5 Feb 2008, 13:49

I have sent an enormous letter to support with a breakdown of all of the major bugs in Sketchup that effect me on a day to day basis.

I have not heard a word back from them, but at least they have the list, with descriptions and suggestions.

Hopefully, SU7 will address all of these, or at least the major ones.

I think that Gaieus is correct concerning the other thread; it certainly sounds like the same issue.

Here's to support blowing us away with their progress! (fingers crossed...)

Anssi · 5 Feb 2008, 19:49

I'm just wondering:

Support for some image formats (TGA was brought to my notice by a thread in the Groups) seems to have been silently removed from the PC version. Were the original images TGA:s?

Also, at least Photoshop recognizes two ways to write many image formats: the Mac and PC byte orders. Generally the PC byte order works excellently with both the PC and Mac, but files in the Mac byte order format cannot be read by many PC applications (luckily Photoshop can...).

Anssi

Gaieus · 6 Feb 2008, 09:50

With that Hungarian example it was jpg's. However this might be an answer - the problem is that the Hungarian guy does not really come here too often so I cannot ask.

Gaieus · 8 Feb 2008, 07:04

Here is the link to his model:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=81000b5b9e6f07a3b52f3b0c363015d3&prevstart=0#

It shows the same symptoms as Chuck's panorama.

otb designworks · 8 Feb 2008, 15:49

Still no official word, FWIW.

Anssi, you make an excellent point. My jpegs were batch processed out of Photoshop on a Mac. I looked through the Photoshop preferences to force a PC compatible version and found nothing that allowed me to change the jpeg version (Mac or PC).

Any idea how to change the batch save settings?

Thanks.