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Well ... it looks like what I'm describing is already in place when you turn shadows on : The color of the face is not determined by the angle between the camera and the perpendicular to the face, but the angle with respect to the sun. You can tilt your view, the faces don't change color. Still, I'd be interested in coloring the faces in "false color" based on the sun angle. Anybody would know where to start? Thanks. Paul

Hi Gord and welcome to SCF! If you are thinking in flash panoramas, there could be better solution than compiling still images. There are several ways to export either cubic or spherical panoramas. Have a look at this one for instance.

You're welcome guys.

I used Pixero and Fredo's work to be able to create a sequence where my camera flies all around a room. Now I'd like the plane to be in the camera's field, first as a fixed item, and later moving (while staying in the viewfield). Most efficient way to do so is to attach the plane to the camera, as you can do in most animation tools. But I understood this would not be easily feasable. Another way is to get for each frame (from a script maybe) the camera position and orientation, add offline my plane wanted relative position and orientation, and then update my plane's coordinates for each frame. Maybe using ProperAnimation plugin... But as I've just discovered SU, I still don't really know how to get these position + orientation infos... Plus I don't know if it is possible to set offline Proper Animation coordinates for an object !

DCs are stuck in Imperial for many of their formulas.

I have been ripping hairs out of my head on this issue several times. Its all a part of the game i guess The "group model and fill with red color" trick has been a great help to me. Hi all btw! Another rookie entering your awesome forum Jakbaehl Groelg My models

@unknownuser said: Hi Kristof, Maybe one of these will help. http://www.usbgear.com/USB-Serial.html Bep Oh you Rock! thanks... and only $12.00

Thanks Jim for saving me some time. That worked real quick - once I entered each group or component- two clicks and all moved to another layer I knew there had to be a fast way. Sketucation once more to my rescue :O) I will have a look at Thomthom's selection tools too- Thanks for the tip Jeff.

Since that link doesn't directly point to your answer and someone else searching here may want to know, the materials don't appear because you painted them onto the back faces in your second example. The OBJ export only shows materials on the front faces.

@gaieus said: @jgb said: ...Is SU-8 out now? http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=30490 Yeah, all the good stuff (solids particularly) is $$$$$ At least V8-Pro is cheaper than V7-Pro was at introduction. Still a major chunk of change for what is a retired old farts hobby. But, I may give V8-Pro some very serious consideration. I will most likely upload V8-Free for now, as I am truly fed up with V6's shortcomings, most of which are NOT FIXED in V8 still.

@solo said: They have many options available, like real 3d (the stuff like they use for Avatar, side by side, something else I cannot remember and anaglyph (red/cyan) That sounds quite interesting then I'm waiting to see what Unity are going to do with their new version. There is great ArchViz possibility in Unity

@watkins said: Dear Jez, If you go to your previously referenced link, viz. http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=46003, and try to access the SU model under "click me for sketchup models" in any of the three postings by El Nosbar, then you will see what I mean. Regards, Bob Okay, thanks. I thought you meant my site, not the forums. I've reported it to the mods there, so it will get fixed soon.

Thanks for the response. I kept playing with it. I didn't think it was right. I'm not sure what was different, but I started from scratch and all is working good now. Something must have tied one component to the other. We can let this post end. If I can take a raincheck on some help down the road ... Thanks ... Bob

thank you for that Gaieus.. thats exactly what I needed.. I'm rebuilding a model I made in trueSpace and it's a tad heavy in SU in 1 piece so I need to work on sections... thanks again!

Try adding the material to both sides of the glass / Face.

@frascati said: First one is probably really easy. Probably having something to do with the choice to "match color of object in model" button but I can't seem to get it to work. Let's say I fill a panel with a specific color. Later I want to use that exact same shade/texture/etc on another item/panel. So far I have been unable to determine how to do this. Is there some method of 'click' on the color/texture identity and 'paste' that to another entity? Second question... more difficult perhaps.... How do I change all X to Y? If there are 55 items in my file that are colored with shade/texture X, how can I change them all to Y without repainting every individual panel? If you have used a material and want to reuse it then in the Material-Browser pick the 'eyedropper' icon pick the material and paint with it [this is also good for 'copying' any changes to the UV-mapping in a material as the 'sampled' material will retain it's 'Texture' settings]. An alternative to the eye-dropper' is to press Alt and the cursor should change momentarily. If a material is applied to 'raw' faces then in the Materials-Browser hover over the required material and right-click 'Select' to select all active faces with that material. Then pick another material and repaint all selected. Alternatively pick a face and right-click context-menu Select > Same Material to do the same selection and then repaint etc. However, if materials are applied directly onto groups/instances then you need a 'script' - there are several 'global-material-changer' tools available...

I see. It should have been more obvious to me but the problem appearst to be that the "share model" option in my installation is greyed out for some reason. I've gone back to the instructions here.. http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37939 ...and am doing everything properly. Is it a problem with my installed program or am I missing something? postscript... I found this on the forum and attempted it. The option is still grayed out. @unknownuser said: OK. I've got it working again. In case anyone else has this problem, here's what I did: In WinXP, open control Panel and click to Security Center Click Internet Options. Choose Trusted Sites Click on the Sites Button. Type in the box "http://sketchup.google.com". The click the Add button. It worked for me. Thanks to all, Tom

@frascati said: thank you very much. When I googled "sketchup background color" I arrived at this page... http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/gsu_mac/F-Model_Settings_and_Managers/Settings-ModelInfo.htm Apparrantly instructions for MAC. Where should I have searched for this info? hm... you stumbled across some very old help info there. The up to date help is reached when you in SketchUp click in Help > Help Center. Which brings you to this URL: http://sketchup.google.com/support/?hl=en

Thnx! I didn't know what to do first. Downloaded the 2D fillet tool but couldn't manage to get it right. It's done now!