oh silly me, its a while since i used SU, now im back i forgot all these resources (my hard drive died so i lost all my old resoure. im a big fan of adian chopras youtube videos - i annoyed my mum for 2 weeks with his american accent wittering on about inferences etc, while i was learning SU on holiday in England last year. haha

The new IRender nXt has its own forum and gallery on the nXt site. Check it out if you like: http://nxt.accurender.com/

We're having a similar problem. I've just installed 2 new fonts (.OTF) but although they are available in other software, like Word, Sketchup doesn't display them in the 3D Text dialogue. Is there any way to fix this?

Link to Basecamp thread.

Thanks for the post

Werdj When exporting from Poser use the .3ds option. You will get a hierarchy selection option were you can eliminate unneeded meshes, start with ground then work down removing any mesh that is not required like tongue, teeth, body parts that are covered by clothing mesh, etc. Select yes when prompted to export object groups. On importing make sure your units are the same as your Poser units (I am set on inches in SU and it works out just fine) SU will not import textures from Poser, however it will import texture colors that you can select and map your textures to. Use Poser models sparingly as they are rather heavy in the poly’s and too many of them will slow you down to a trickle, exploding them will take time and every now and again cause bugsplats.

I did some work directly off my usb this weekend. I was kid sitting for my brothers two hell-raisers and after knocking them out I went to work. Thanks SU for having a free version. My brothers computer is horribly slow to begin with but working off the usb was not too bad. FYI.

i love those cartoony 3d furniture pieces. they look hand drawn and cute. i nice map and lines - i suppose most will think they look normal, maybe im odd..

Thanks for mentioning this, this will be a nice addition when adding stainglass accents to my windows in models.

@gaieus said: Hi dmr, I'm a PC user so I'm not sure but it seems that if you double click on a material in the browser, you should be able to edit it - including its width/height. See the user guide for details: http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/gsu6_mac/Content/F-Model_Settings_and_Managers/Settings-ColorPicker-MAC.htm (scroll down to almost the bottom). Thanks for the link Gaieus. When I get home from work I will give this a try. I swear I have tried this before but it wouldn't surprise me if I missed it . Thanks again

Thanks for all the ideas everyone. Interestingly, I created a file with Mac SU that resulted in about a 700kb file size. I opened the exact same file in Windows, replaced the textures with the exact same image files, re-saved the sketchup file and the end file was 450kb! There is something weird going on in the Mac version. mc

I don't think that shadows or lighting can be exported to PDF from any application, I understand that it is limited strictly to it's own lighting features. I am not wuite sure, but I think that 3D PDF does not have a shadow casting option. Shadows in SU are raster features generated by ýour graphics card and there is no way to export them in vector form. Anssi

thanks so much

I would think that you would much prefer a logo rendered out of a ray tracer, as opposed to SU. You will get a much product, IMHO, once you can incorporate reflectivity, radiosity, and a custom lighting set up.

Hi everyone.... i am currently using vray sketchup. when i render using he rectangular light why does the light it turn out black? and instead of producing the light it casts a shadow on the object. can someone please tell me why? thanks

Thanks for taking the time to help Gaieus...I thought that was the one also but its not..I went al picked up a copy of national street standards which has them all...Thank you

create a square that is a 1/4 by 1/4 somewhere next to your content. Select all Use the tape measure tool. click on one corner of your 1/4 x 1/4 square click on the other corner type the characters 1 & ' and hit enter. You're good.

You can also adjust the camera field of view down to say 1 or some very low number. Essentially staying in perspective view but getting closer and closer to orthographic projection.

OK, that is it. Ill work on that. Thanks remus. invicta