Just click the Update Preview button in the Vray Material Editor. [image: TBX4_Editor.jpg]

Class of '07 man! Spent most of my time in Building 17, learning about forces this, energy that... I should go back for my masters but I needed a job...

I tried before adding mine and it is not allowed.

Just "intersect with model" as Gaieus says again for the other side...it worked fine for me. I had a look at your model...its looking pretty good so far. If you use more components, your modeling will speed up significantly. For example, each headlight should be a component(and would look better if it was smoothed and the circle it was constructed from had more segments). If each of the vertical bars on the grill was a component, you could copy an array to space them perfectly. Maybe you would have a hard time modeling this way, but if you split the model in half the long way, make it a component, copy/flip to the other side, then you only have to model half as much because whatever you do to one side automatically happens to the other side. Like this: [image: dQby_petehood05.jpg] [image: Ft8Y_petehood051.jpg] [image: rNJL_petehood052.jpg] There are a lot of tricks to help you to model faster - have a look at these tutorials if you haven't already: http://sketchup.google.com/training/videos/familiar_with_gsu.html An hour invested here will save you countless hours and headaches down the road! I hope this helps, cheers!

A couple of questions, please see attached image. (I am sorry for the huge file size, re-sized down, you really lose what I am talking about) image

hey dude, , very nice !!

whooo your house is amazing Boofredlay!! Keep going! And thanks for the advice! Have a nice day

Hi Paul, Nice video. Went to your site but did not find the class lessons that are directed to production drawings in Su, in order to "completely substitute SketchUp Pro for CAD". What would help are some links to pages illustrating the kind of technical drawings by Su that you teach.

Hi August, the admin's have not mentioned it, but the tutorial section is undergoing a major update. All tutorials have been offline for a few days, and now they are coming back online, but they are all being processed into a new format by hand, which will take some time. But the idea that the new format wiil be significantly easier for the authors to use (thus hopefully equalling more tutorials being made). So I too am seeing the messed up code. I am guessing that it will all get fixed in a few days. Try checking tutorials.sketchucation.com for the newly adapted tutorials (though I don't know if any are migrated to the new site yet). But keep checking there for the newly adapted tutorials, Chris PS Glad to know you were trying to look at my tutorial I have plans for more to come!

Guys, I am pretty sure this is some (hopefully temporary) glitch not intended by Google. Bruce, would you mind if I moved the topic in the Bug reports?

Google must have been listening - today it seems they've enabled a link in the 3D Warehouse from your models to see your profile. A step in the right direction me thinks? eg: http://www.google.com/profiles/TheOtherMartinTaylor#

Its called clipping, discussed plenty of times already: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=36261

Looping

"If the cap fits wear it..." - said to M. Bonnet* I hadn't even thought of your surname* when I typed that line ! But I keep putting double meanings into everything I type/say lately - my brain must be splitting in two - that's either multi-tasking or schizophrenia ? ...

Hi Rashad, First of all, specify your favourite image editor in your preferences window (Window menu on a PC) see below - I use Gimp to fine tune my images [image: nT6s_Application.jpg] Then when you want to edit an image used as texture on a face, right click > Texture > Edit texture image. This will open the image in your editor where you can resample and compress it to your needs and upon saving, SU will instantly refresh the texture while keeping its UV coordinates. Really handy tool introduced in SU 7. Note however that the Texture menu item in the context menu is only available if you right click on a single face - i.e. not on curved surfaces or groups/components. Scaling components (or anything) bearing textures will not affect the file size. The model infor > Statistics > Purge will purge everything "purgeable" i.e. (unused) components, materials, layers, styles (each of which can be purged from the respective dialogs/browsers individually, too). At the moment, you can only do this by right clicking a component (either in the model or in the Component browser) and "Save as..." It will save it as a separate skp file (which it is actually, only embedded into your model) and in your Explorer window you can see the file size. A good method therefore is to download the different components from the Warehouse in your internet browser, check their effective modelling (file size, polygon count etc.) and only then import them into your model. It would be cool to see the file size in the component browser especially bnow as the online Warehouse is so tightly integrated - hopefully once it will be implemented. I think that's it for now.

Hi Everyone, With regard to accessing the 3D Warehouse through a firewall, make sure the following items are open: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse (port 80) http://www.google.com/accounts (ports 80 and 443) Hi jjanke81, As a test, export the SketchUp file as KMZ, then open a browser and click the "Upload" button in the upper right-hand corner. See if you can upload the KMZ manually. Regards, SGT

Game modding (like he mentioned for GTA) is very legal, and has been a way for people to extend their favorite games. The tools needed to modify or "mod" games are generally published by the game making company. And many games, at least for the PC, can be modded. I've personally playedd with modding Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield2. And I've dabbled with Half Life, Crysis, and the unreal engine. I've also used Virtools by D'assault systemes, which is a physics engine, and you have to do the programming yourself. I would HIGHLY recommend using an existing game and mod it, especially if you are wanting to make a first person shooter, or any other style game thay already exists. With most of the games, the process would be: Play the game and become familiar with it. Start playing with the map editor, learn how to make entire maps from scratch. Learn how to import buildings that you have made in SketchUp. This can be a difficult process in some game engines, requiring that you export from SketchUp to 3dsmax or Maya. Then beyond that, learn how to make weapones. And then characters and rig, skin and animate them. etc. Its pretty fun to see a building or object you made in SU show up inside one of your favorite games. Chris

thnx Dylan.... it's still a WIP so I'll post some new renders when I'm done. I already undid the smoothing. I'll experiment with the roof when I got some free time.

Thanks Howard, Your door builder made my day. Thanks for sharing and devising it so well. It was breeze customizing it to specific needs.