I'm guessing you are not using the latest V-Ray for Sketchup and the jpeg texture you try to render is an Image. (It says Image in the Entity Info window when you select it?) Before v1.48.66 of VfSU it did not render Image elements. You have the explode it. We have a V-Ray section here at the forum: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewforum.php?f=322 And please mention what version of VfSU when asking question as the answer often depends on this. Also: screenshots of your SU model and your test renders greatly help when answering. If you have a small test model then you can add that to the post as well.

Have you ever clicked on a single face with a texture applied with the right button? Texture position? Right click on texture position while working with it and hit Reset position. It will reset scale and rotation.

@wehby said: I guess it would be possible for a Ruby programmer to access the same locations.dat file to automate that process. It's just a comma-delimited text file. No problem there. Format (sorted in left-right field order): "Country", "City", Long, Lat, TZOffset Long, Lat, TZOffset are Float (W Long neg; S Lat neg; TZOffset sign ref to UTC.)

@frederik said: Didn't mean to pick on you, Ely... Sorry if you felt that... Hey..no problem(i didn t felt like that)- i should have watch better .. now i know how they look like. Take care! [image: wK7y_dsc_000954edit.jpg]

You'll need to use TIG's 2D tools plugin

zip it. works and saves diskspace and bandwidth

Yeah it's an extra credit project for lit class

you need to physically (or virtually in 3D i guess ) move one thing in front of the other. if they share the exact same space you can't decide which one shows first.

You might find it worthwhile checking out Sketchup Show #27 on You Tube which is about modelling a chair in photo match.

Hi Frascati, hi folks. See this SU file for ideas. Quick woofer.skp

When we are at it, here are some thatch textures for your project: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=10978

@leedeetee said: Theyre' just normal PDFs, so just setting them up. I've actually been on my sickbed for most of the week with awful flu/cold so Carnegies have been slow. Was starting to feel a bit better though, hence my post, although, saying that, think I need to go back to bed. Is this how you'd do it? You have the right idea. Just pull the elevations back from the floor plan a bit, to give yourself some working room. And if you have grouped each view, and placed them on their own layer, you can turn them on or off as you wish. Looks like a great challenge you have there Lee. What a unique looking building. Should be fun.

The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL has modelled London for precisely that purpose. Google wanted to incorporate it in GE, but Ordnance Survey, he say "No!" Crown Copyright and all that. Don't you just love freedom of information in dear old Blighty? I believe CASA have small chunks of it on their blog site.

Solo, here you go. thanks in advance. pillow.skp

There are exceptions and if an exception has its meaningful explanation, the students should understand and accept those exceptions. After the intersection and clean-up, you can safely scale the model back (like I did in the attached file). This won't contradict with the "general rule" either as you end up with a 1:1 scale model just have used a trick to come around an OpenGL limitation.

@magnato said: When I hide a subgroup in one scene and updating the scene, it is hidden in all scenes. Is there any way around it? Magnar I hope it is otherwise it sounds like a bug for me. Sketchup sometimes is really annoying, it doesn't work like it logically would have to.

Thank you Tig. p

@masheen said: I have the latest version thanks and after reading the documentation everything made a lot more sense - although i am still unable to tell what change i have made to the size of the component itself - i'm afraid of generating heavy models as i need to make quick changes to the model in front of the client and i cant afford a sluggish model during navigation... masheen Read this it may help http://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/faster

That's it. Thanks a ton Chris.

Sean, if you purge all un-used components, layers, materials, and styles from it, does it get smaller? And how about deleteing all materials. You might have to do both those things to make it small enough to upload somewhere. You can also try to .zip it too. Chris