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Well Poser looks very interesting if you need/want to have that level of animation and audio. My original idea was in response to Nukeman's original post to show that animation of 3D characters was possible in SketchUp without having to combine multiple videos to show an animated character in a SketchUp scene. Yes, I agree that doing so with tools like Animator and MSPhysics does take a lot of work. Bottom line is that, at least for now, doing all of this entirely inside SketchUp is not really the right way to do. IMO, SketchUp is not a good tool for creating game like environments. Again, IMO, SketchUp is a great tool for doing architectural or product models and even including some level of animation as a way to present the model/product. In those environments the best option combining the model and animated characters might be a tool like Twinmotion. And even in that environment it is my understanding that the animation of the characters is somewhat limited (you can not control all aspects of the character animation). I had planned on trying to show an animated character walking across a terrain or even thought about trying to animate a character going up a set of stairs. I think that everyone has already demonstrated that, while possible with a great amount of work, the current tools are not the best toolset for achieving something like that. In closing, sorry for the long post, I appreciate the responses we have had in the thread. I wish my skills were better at delivering and look forward to any additional insight on the topic.

The Ruby API only lets you set a layer/tag's color. [Note in v2020 'layers' were renamed 'tags', but in the API they're always called 'layers']. But you can't [yet] set a layer/tag's material [i.e. there's no access to textures or to transparency settings]. However, in Ruby you could set up a separate color for the transparent layer [but setting a alpha value does nothing] and when it's set you do a simple edit for the layer/tag's color in the Layer/Tag Browser, and NOW you can add some transparency... model=Sketchup.active_model model.start_operation("LayerColors",true) model.layers.each{|layer| if layer.name=="0_EX_Glazing" #grey to get transparency setting later on... layer.color=Sketchup;;Color.new(150,150,150,50) else # 0128_White ? Set up any RGB you want ! layer.color=Sketchup;;Color.new(255,255,255) end } model.commit_operation Ensure your Model is set up to use color by layer/tag - in the layer/tag-browser pop-out... Run this in the Ruby Console... Next manually edit the "0_EX_Glazing" layer/tag color in the layer/tag-browser to have some transparency... There's no option for 'back' material in layer's colors...

Baz, I had a similar experience related to the replacement of OR lights and the addition of some articulated equipment booms. The vendor showed a floor plan with circles drawn to show the area the equipment could cover but not the volume of space the equipment would consume in the room. As it turned out, the proposed placement of the equipment and where it mounted on the ceiling meant that it couldn't be used in the primary location. If the boom was positioned where they wanted it during use, they couldn't get the patient in the room. And it couldn't be place on the other side of the table to allow the patient to come in because they'd have to take the equipment over the patient once they were on the table and that is prohibited. The vendor wasn't happy because they had to go back and rework things and the project manager was at first upset because of the delay in the project and the need to schedule another meeting. She figured out though that it saved the hospital a pile of money, though.

As DaveR says: @unknownuser said: Go to SketchUp menu item: Window > Extension Manager - click on Install Extension... Navigate to where you saved the RBZ file, select it and choose Open. It's then auto-installed for you... But I find you difficulty hard to understand... You say you understand you need a newer version of LibFredo [from a message?]. So you must have aversion already installed ? You must also have some of Fredo's Extensions installed to have got the message ?? So why do you have trouble installing the newer RBZ, when somehow earlier ones were installed ??

The ExtensionStoresup3 uses the older style WebDialogs for its dialogs - for backwards compatibility. These dialogs need Internet Explorer to make them. If [as you appear to say] you have 'uninstalled' Edge you've probably broken IE at the same time ? Although you might not use IE for your day-to-day browsing it is vital for SketchUp's correct functioning... Once you have IE set up you need to check your Internet Options [Control Panel]. This should be set to use Medium/Low for Local-Security and in Advanced styles/control etc and scripts etc should be allowed to run unhindered. Because the dialogs are populated using javascript links between SketchUp and the dialog's HTML I suspect that the plugins-folders are not being listed in the dialog because the page's javascript is blocked... hence the 'security warning' ??

Thanks for the advice, helped a lot. Faced this problem myself.

The more comfortable is using a remote system like Real VNC The best for use a mouse on your Android tablett with an USB / OTG / connector! (Right Click and Wheel are well emulated) Of course your computer must be opened with SketchUp! On a SmartPhone it's many less comfortable... The "free" version on a Browser must be working also on an Android Tablett! So no need mouse Else you have the free "SKetchUp Viewver" for Phone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwwAaFrkYvY

Refer to the System Requirements article here. In general you will need a computer with a suitable graphics card. Integrated GPUs have never been recommended and historically Nvidia GeForce and GTX series cards have been the best at supporting OpenGL. SketchUp only uses a single CPU core so multi-core CPUs don't add anything. Speed will be more important than number of cores. Many rendering programs can utilize more threads so if you plan to do that sort of thing, investigate their system requirements, too.

Kinda really depends on the model. Good model easily done.

Jim no longer published his tools. There are other toolbar toolsets in the PluginStore... do a search there...

Il vaut mieux poster en français dans le forum français Board Index Settings USersGroups Français (+ Select en bout de ligne à droite) Bouton Submit (tout en bas à droite) Sinon aucune idée pour l'instant sans le SKP correspondant!

@pilou said: Sim Lab can also make that you want...with VR or not...Interactive etc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujb618o3yF8 +1 Was thinking of this as well given the feedback above.

Cheers mate, I agree with both of you and it will be handy as you say for all the sponsorship stickers and fire, engine stop etc.

A must-have it appears to be. I appreciate you sharing pbacot. To add, I appreciate Rich providing us with even more interesting material wheredle

There is no "activate Google Earth" tab in SketchUp 2018. Geo-Location is added under File>Geo-Location. Google Earth/Maps has not been used for a number of years.

Just a shot in the dark .. have you gone to the View menu and turned on 'Hidden Geometry'? That one is my Achilles heel.

Thanks for the reply! As an update, I bought the Mac mini and currently have it connected to 3 x 4k displays. Looking at the GPU usage graphs, I've been able to reach about 80% of the limit of the Integrated UHD 630 with SketchUp alone, and using maximum texture sizes. The only thing that's maxed out the GPU so far has been the screensaver I use. I can orbit large models easily, but there's a slight delay when I stop orbiting, and before the textures load. It doesn't orbit quickly with the textures still visible - it changes to solid colours. For the moment, I'm going to keep with the integrated graphics as this computer seems almost silent, but if I decide to buy an eGPU, I'll update this thread to show the comparisons. This is with the 2018 i7 Mac mini, 6 core, and 64GB Ram - running SketchUp and Layout 2020

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