Thanks! That was a great day and a sequence of great pics in that one moment. Memories for a lifetime

But when visiting Mateo, I'll be quite close as well... Thanks, Jim!

Thanks Dave, that worked.

Autostich is what I've been looking for... if it's as good as it claims... I'm going to try it now. Thanks for the tip, Maggy! and, er... don't look now, but I think a cat is sucking your face. 8O edit so... I tried Autostich, and I feel like a COMPLETE IDIOT! Thanks "Maggy Van Nistelrooy", you are my new hero. It did just as good of a job in 3 minutes automatically what took me more than 2.5hrs manually in Pshop.

Craig has requested no more E-mails to Google Corporate... so I'm going to lock this thread so that everyone comes to this end. I'm sure I speak for the whole forum in saying that we're behind you 100%. and we'll be anxiously awaiting word on a decision. good luck. and again... PLEASE NO MORE E-MAILS TO GSU CORPORATE Krisidious

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Thank you- this is very useful! I was going to do this myself but Sketchup only allows you to add materials to a collection one at a time!

SaWasDee Krab! and Thank you very Big

thanks, burkhard. on the mac the materials browser is different. there is no right arrow nor can i open a second window. but i am finding the ways to achieve the same results.

Thanks Buddy.

Thanks David. I only took a peek but they look great

Great, Thank you.

That's cool, Tom - I've never known you use the same fancing there (there are so many differences... ) Anyway, to anyone using it, a straight, horisontal line at the top (say a wire the fence is fixed onto) would "finish" the details. You can obviously not include it into the image for when tiling, all those horizontal lines appeared...

Hi group. I have just proposed to Google Boulder that they incorporate our colorcharts.org databases into Sketchup. Right now SU is sadly lacking in this area. In order to accomplish great results; calibrate your monitor, use high quality source data and you can manage colors from additive color to subtractive color just as easily as any graphic artist. Printing ink and paint colorant have a lot of similarities, they are both pigment ground up in a clear carrier. You already know that all print media graphic artists manage color from additive color to subtractive color and do color correction on their desktops with spectacular results. Why would you think the same is not available to you when managing paint colors? Here are the two different approaches to obtaining digital paint chip source data for virtual display purposes. The first is by using an inexpensive $300 colorimeter like the Pantone Color Cue. Colorimeter’s have a very low degree of quality and only come up with a close approximation of colors. Anyone using this method to display paint colors on their websites also makes disclaimer statements that the screen color is not to be relied upon and you should purchase a test sample of the paint before proceeding with your paint order. The cost of scanning a color chip using this method is pennies! The above is not considered by the paint industry as a scientific approach and therefore is never used to color match or formulate paint. The second approach is spectrophotometers. This is the one the paint industry uses and relies upon. It is also the one we use. Spectrophotometers and their ancillary equipment start in the $10,000 range and go all the way up to several hundred thousand dollars. Ours cost around $100,000. Low end spectrophotometers read 31 data points across the UV/Vis electromagnetic spectrum. Spectrophotometers over $50,000 will read 400 data points or more. Here is a link for more data http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet-visible_spectroscopy. Read “Practical Considerations” on the same link. In laymen’s terms the vast difference between low end and high end spectrophotometers is like trying to use a carpenters tape measure VS a machinists micrometer to obtain high quality incremental data. What this means to you is the higher quality of measured data you start with the better your reproducible results will be for either virtual visualization purposes or paint formulation.

Thanks. By the way, I went through his stucco and concrete textures and it seems they are not all tessellating bitmaps...that doesn't mean that the non-tessellating ones are useless, but they will not smoothly repeat across a face. And with clever use of the Offset filter and the Stamp tool in Photoshop, you could of course make them all tessellate. There are a nice set of links on this site, though, to various other fabrication and 3D modeling resources. And rodeo queens. [Lewis Wadsworth]

Thanks.