Pete, Thanks, looks great. Ever do one using a milk material? Gus

Too bad. It's so cool - I love these glitches! (I mean to investigate around)

Scale is definitely the issue here, not incomplete texturing. Not sure why you received that judgment, but the scale is definitely off. Please remember to always test your final model in Google Earth itself. It takes seconds to do just by hitting the "Place Model" button in SketchUp. @unknownuser said: If you look at the model from above it should blend into the google terrain. If textures or model parts show from afar it is not likely going to get into the 3d layer. This is not true. We are looking for accurate and current, and don't fail models for having easily visible differences from the GE imagery. The BEST model is going to have ground level photography that has been cleaned up in an image editor to remove things like wires, road signs, bushes/trees, along with an appropriate amount of geometric detail. What "appropriate amount of geometric detail" means, is to include architectural features of the structure that enhance it's visual appeal without going to the architecturally completedetail level, which would increase the polygon/face count to the point where it's too complex and will be failed for that reason. @unknownuser said: I have had models in the warehouse for 6 months to a year before they gained a place in the 3d building layer. We are working everyday to improve this. Stay tuned and please add more models! YOU get to build the future of Google Earth! Cheers, - CraigD

Hi Burkhard, hi folks. I tried with SU 6 and SU 7 and the Rectangle Tool adjust to the new axes. Just ideas.

Thanks Solo, Really good tut. I didn't know you could use protrude on any other shape besides square/rectangle. I learn here every day. Cool render. Cheers, Jeff

Hello, I haven't determined if its a file size or poly count problem. My file that is having a problem is: Size: 43 MB Edges: 1,508,474 Faces: 51,451 I'm going to try a 3DS export to C:\ and see if that changes anything.

About rocks you will find some ideas here

I guess it could be done with DC's (not that I could do it )

thanks Gaieus that works great

Also, even if ou upgrade, you can go on with your old projects in SU 6 to make sure there is no problem.

Well, we are ll using SU so workarounds are our best friends Anyway, I have also reported this bug and hope it will be addressed soon as after the main release there are generall some minor patches to fix newly appeared bugs.

Hi lordofmax if you are Mac user, you can download to use firefox, not good Safari.

Hi Philip and welcome! Crazy idea for sure but I like it!

this is terrible news for me, i'm modeling a building with lots of in and out bits like colums and insets and whenever i project it adds all kinds of anoying faces for me to clean up, almost like shinging a light at the object and anywhere it would shadow it cuts faces into the mesh.. i can't see where this is a good idea.. of for any reason, i would just rather the texture to be smeared on those..

I have not found a way to make it update automatically. It would be nice if it did though. Chris

For a Windows machine the path to Plugins is C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7\Plugins Anssi

I'm afraid you might be right, but the User Manual for Vray for Sketchup said it would not show either at its source or in the object. I'll try to contact them, or keep working on it.

Well in case it can help someone else out, I got it to work by exporting to a preferences.dat file then importing that file. Somehow that made it work so go figure...it's just nice to have my shortcuts back.

@remus said: Could i ask what a global is? It's like an infinite plane or a skyglobe background image. Thrax; watermark are the only "real" solution for globals in SU unless you want to build a skydome of real geometry around your model and apply some sky texture for instance. I can imagine that many of the models you've seen were applied some post processing in PS or such.