Hey, just found on maxwell forum: Pelias say's: "There is one very important change which is not directly visible though. The handling of transformation matrices was overwritten to solve the issues of Studio compatibility for groups/components. This is a big one - I believe this fixes the issues of objects misplaced in Studio or Studio crashes when loading SU generated MXS files for good." Yeah!

Sounds like a lighting issue more than a material issue. Try rendering without physical camera in vray and see if that helps.

artlantis is a very good app, very easy to learn and use. its problem is, like others, its price tag.

I once read a post on this forum that points to a plugin that fools SU into believing that SU free is SU pro in a limited range of situations. If however this is a Boo Hoo, please forget I mentioned it.

For all those thinking to buy Modo they are running $200 price reduction over festive season.

holgster- that seems to fix the problem. "texture anti-aliasing" was unchecked for the "final" settings thanks! [image: SSSP_buildingonly.jpg]

@kwistenbiebel said: They might as well go fully open source with Sketchup, so really funky coding stuff can happen. Amen to that! I was really hoping Google would step up to the plate with this release and show that they had some vision for the software, but version 7, although improved, is not a step towards something better. Google is content with having sketchup be purely a surface modeler with poor integration and inefficient load handling. I was hoping to see an indication with this release, that sketchup would move more towards a quad modeler or at least start to offer things like direct vertex manipulation and subdivision. There are so many great ruby scripts and ideas that could've been taken on by Google's development team and integrated into the software as standard tools, but in the end, there were no new tools whatsoever. Except for automatic line intersecting, which I'd imagine wouldn't take more than a few lines of code to add. So, in the end, the only real solution to the inefficiency dilemma is to have solid third party application that can be strong in the areas that Sketchup is weak. I wouldn't count on Google to provide this solution.

Third approach could be to use php files instead of html files and simply include the one that contains the Hypercosm applet into another one (in case one doesn't want to use iFrames which can be the case sometimes)

You could also try this excellent tutorial on the ASGVIS forum http://asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=90&topic=5225.0 David

Another heads up. A few people were asking if it was possible to use Al Hart's plugin to generate actual 3D trees in addition to the billboards. I'm not sure whether that is possible, because of the Terms of Use of the original tree generator. However there is a little freebie called Arbaro that runs entirely in Java....so it runs from a folder on your desktop (any OS) by double clicking the arbaro.jar file. The results, though, are worthy of anything produced by XFrog or Onyx. It outputs in Pov and Obj formats. Here is a link to a gallery page showing the results...the download link is near the top of the page. And attached is a render of a model converted to 3ds, imported into SU (agonisingly slowly) and rendered in VRay. I needed to reverse the normals on the leaves prior to import, for some reason, but the whole model is separate groups, so that was no big deal. [image: k8Gl_blacktupelo.jpg]

I've seen anim8or... but is there ANYTHING like it for macs?

HOW TO 360 degree image IN Enviroment Background IN SKETCHUP WITH VRAY

Thanks to Al, Chris and Gaius, I made a copy of what was installed in my laptop: the 3 files in sketchup/plugin and all folder the Render Plus System in Program Files and now it s working. I think that something was not installed in the render plus system....

Burkhard, It's the other way round - there is a SKP Importer for Archicad that can be downloaded from the Graphisoft site. The version I have tested is meant for version 11, I don't know if it works with 12. Models imported with it needed quite a lot of cleanup, but it is a nice way of creating custom doors and windows as SU hole-cutting components are imported as windows or doors (if they touch an edge) into Archicad. Anssi

Someone upped the forementioned vismats as a single zip. http://asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=90&topic=4735.0 Caution: 500 mb download.

I am not sure what you mean with the first part about shadows. I did understand the second part. Podium comes with presets. There are more on the Podium forum. Soon we will have even more.

'fraid not. Still on XP at the moment. I'm going to be working on the problem today. I'll try and report back if/when I find the issue. What frustration I'm having w/ Maxwell early on is that the error messages are pretty unsatisfactory. Might as well be "Render Failed: Guess again" -Brodie

Oh, well here's a couple thread about that.. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=11338 http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=4845 I don't know if they have what you need.