This brings to mind the stemless, round bottom glass that is new on the market. It will tilt and you can even spin it, but it wont spill, supposedly. From the looks and feel of it, the bottom interior thins as it rises, giving all the weight to the bottom, it seems.

Yes I've seen you posted it inn the gallery. Nice gazebo indeed! (and surely I have the player and the teleporter, too ) Glad you succeeded!

Shadows would be "possible" in RPS 3D PDF - but very difficult for us to implement. U3D, (the underlying format), itself, does not do shadows (as far as we know). If anyone has seen other 3D PDF products which do shadows, let us know. So, to do shadows, we would have to places textures on each shadowed face which already had the shadows on them. This is "possible", but very difficult, and it would probably create a PDF file which was too large to use properly. We have seen some approaches which use .AVI movies, rather than 3D PDF to create presentations with shadows. SketchUp can do this with sun shadows already, or you can use IRender to create movies with reflections and shadows from point lights as well as the sun.

I am using the older version. I had trouble yesterday downloading the new version and getting it to work so I went back to the old. I will try the new again. Thanks.

Thanks a'lot! ilay [spire7k]

When you say registered do you mean you have registered copy of Podium or registered to forum? edit: just've seen...you are registered on the Podium forum

Hello all, I'm new to the board. I've been trying to learn rendering and would like to see su2pov work on the Mac with SU7. I have SU6 Pro but the latest version of su2pov ported to the Mac is 2.4 which apparently does not work on SU beyond ver 5. I thought I would work on the ruby script su2pov.rb that comes with the Windows version of su2pov (su2pov3.2) which does work with SU6 to see if I could modify that for the Mac OS, but unlike other ruby scripts I have seen, it is not a plain text file. Does anyone have any information about su2pov for SU7 OR a Mac version of su2pov3.2 OR any guidance as to how I can get a version of su2pov.rb (v3.2) that I can open in a text editor? Thanks, Rich

Yup 99% Podium, one or two Vue renders.

It didn´t work for me. But i found that copy all the model to a new sketchup file work and now vray can render everything!

I would use a night HDRI for the environment and GI. The rect lights in your building may need to be turned up in order to get the glow you want. My suggestion is to play with a test model using just a box with a 'window' cut out and try the methods described above to see what gets the effect you are looking for. Nice FREE HDRIshttp://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

jenujacob I guess printing the manual will make it easier to use and indeed the forum looks interesting. Good starting points. Thnx (Afterburn)

@edson said: @thomthom said: When you download V-Ray material you need to relink the bitmap textures. and how does one do that? You have to examine the material in the V-Ray material editor. Whenever you see a large M inspect it and see if it's a Bitmap material. If it is, then you have to relocate the bitmap file on your computer. Once you've relinked a material you can export it. Then you don't have to reload the bitmaps every time you import the material.

if the vray physical camera is on and less value for your rectangular light. you wont really see them. physical camera works together hand in hand with the the vray sun. if you are using night scene better to turn off the physical camera. all lights (omni or point lights, emmisive and rectangular lights will appear) if you insist in using the camera try lowering your fstop value, decresing the shuterss speed or even makign your ISO higher, but lo be careful because if your using ISO more than 800, the image will become noisier.

You deserve a special care guys for creating this excellent program for us!

2point perspective is not supported at moment. However if you wish to render wide lense follow the instruction above. It will allow you to be in the room and see more. edit: we are looking into 2point perspective. Can't promisse you when it will be implemented.

Thanks Al... I was hoping for something like this...