but why is it so messy?

There is also Jims materials with pencil colours and crayons materials and NPR toolswith a 30 day tial version (but has water marks/text) EDIT I found some more sketchy materials and links by Ross and others you may be interested in here

SketchUp generally does not seem to like other ways of arranging your screens than those allowed by the standard Windows settings. Using Nvidia's Nview, for instance, does not seem to work. Anssi

Thanks fossa, I looked his stuff up on the Internet and got some ideas, but I would have to build the texture I need from scratch, or buy his book (assuming that they are in there). One idea I got from looking at his images is that at the scale, and angle I require a view, that the use of a 2d pattern with a photo of shrub at a similar angle may work. If I place it 6" above the ground, I might even get a darkened edge. Don't know if I am getting paid enough for all that effort:-) But since when do I get paid enough>_<

Easy fix. Thanx Nick

Each to there own................

Fredo's Tools on Surface: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=11212

In that topic, where I posted those "fake" led lights, I was using Twilight Render which uses Kerkythea's rendering engine. So it should work the same in Kerkythea, too. Have you got a led pattern that you would like to display? (Note that it would be very slow rendering if you wanted to place individual lights there)

I failed, I thought Deep Exploration would be able to convert but nope it does not.

thank you for your intrest, software downloads fine, such as related sketchup stuff. also software not related to sketchup downloads without a problem. last time i tried the download reached 95% then stopped very very frustrating

It's been always this way ever since I can remember.

Hi Silizium, In the German forum, there is this announcement: @eeva said: Für die deutschsprachigen... hallo an alle! nach dem forum update am 16. / 17. (eventuell auch 18.) august (siehe PM von coen), werden die foreign language forums nicht mehr sichtbar sein auf dem board index, wenn man per default eingelogged ist. dafür sind die special user groups für jede sprache geschaffen wurden. gaieus hat alle, die eine email-adresse mit der endung .de, .at und .ch haben und alle die je im jeweiligen forum geposted haben, diesen special user groups zugeordnet. alle, die jedoch eine andere email-adresse haben (wie z.b. gmail.com, und natürlich auch alle zukünfitgen neuen mitglieder) sollten sich selbst der special user group hinzufügen im User Control Panel. I have put you into that usergroup however already so you can see the forum. Welcome to SCF!

Thanks guys. Made it for an apartment remodel concept I'm working on. Nice rendering Solo. Been trying to render the kitchen scene I put together but I'm still behind on my rendering skills. Having an old P4 HT machine doesn't help because it takes forever to render with multiple lighting sources. I uploaded a "lite" version without the raised lettering and a couple of other tweaks which includes reducing some geometry using Artisan.

Thanks

It would be easier to understand the problems you are having if you post the file.

Ah yeah, that's easy with some TT plugins...

There's a script called Dashed Lines at Smustard. I thought I purchased it, and was going to post an example but I don't see the plugin anywhere. Anyway, you might look into it and see if it would work for your situation. [edit] I knew I had dashedlines.rb! Here's an example of what it does. [image: JS8J_dashedlines.jpg]

For even moderately complex models, using groups and/or (especially for repetitive elements) components is a must anyway. This makes it possible to do anything more complex than a box actually.

@mhtaylor said: ...I can't get SU to take more than half the 8gb I have installed... LAA will not use as much RAM as you have on a 64 bit system just up to 4 Gb (and that seems to work for you). If LAA weren't there, it could only use 2 Gb (or with some hack, even on a 32 bit system, 3Gb but it may not be stable)