1 new feature

Anssi

Current material name displayed in status area, clicking on it opens the materials palette. Choosing the paint bucket tool shouldn't affect material palette visibility.

Anssi

Paul Russam

Feature 1:
Increased maths (or math if your American )
I use the '/' 'x' functions regularly, for example I can COPY a construction line from one point to another and them type '/3' and I'll get the distance divided by 3 but I cant do it when placing an original construction line for example, I'd like to hover over a edge, pull in a direction and type 1278.5/5 and get 5 lines.

Feature 1.1:
In GDS (going back a bit here) I could draw a set of (construction) lines by typing:
XLINE 0 100 250 r 6 100 300 and get a line where I clicked (0), a line 100mm away, a line 250mm away repeated 6 times, a line 100mm away and a line 300mm away from that.

Feature 2:
Coloured Scene Tabs, I use tabs not only to store camera positions but layer visibility, shadow settings etc.
For example I currently have a file with both the existing building and the proposed remodelling in it, its 3 stories tall and I have 4 primary views I want for each floor so I have 4 scenes that store layer visibility, Ground, Ground+First, Ground+First+Second etc. till I get to the roof, I then have 4 scenes that store only the camera positions.
This way I can go to view 1, Ground floor or view 4 3rd floor with just 2 clicks.
In another model I have the shadows setup at 8am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm and 7pm.

If I could colour my Scene tabs it would make my life a lot easier.

Edit:
Opps, just reread remus's post and picked up the 'Original tool' bit, I think coloured tabs is original but more math(s) is only an enhancement....... I'm going to leave it though because I want it

Paul Russam

@solo said:

nurbs!!

Run for the hills the nurbs are coming!!!

boofredlay

It is not a tool but it would be a new feature...

Locking Toolbars!

solo

All the cool 3d apps are wearing NURBS this season.

kwistenbiebel

A ' don't-you-dare-crash-on-me ' button.

I would use it a lot.

lewiswadsworth

@solo said:

:roflmao:

All the cool 3d apps are wearing NURBS this season.

They've been wearing it since the late Nineties, actually. Some things just don't go out of style.

boofredlay

So is this the sequel... Revenge of the Nurbs?

I would also like a couple render buttons:

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remus

good ideas guys. I especially like your idea for the render buttons boo

Gjenio

@paul russam said:

@solo said:

nurbs!!

Run for the hills the nurbs are coming!!!

What do you mean? Are you in the developing team? Is it a scoop or a joke?

solo

And this, my little ponies is how rumours begin.

Paul Russam

When Solo first wrote:

@solo said:

nurbs!!

I read it as if someone was yelling it as a warning against invading aliens in a 50's sifi movie
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I know, I'm odd

Stinkie

Hmm, imagine ... I bought MoI recently, and I've been fantasizing about a cross between SU and MoI a lot.

Kwisten's dont-you-dare-crash-on-me-button sounds like a plan too.

remus

quiet kwis, the phrase 'high poly' and any of its derivatives are forbidden from this thread!!

kwistenbiebel

I've got another one.
A 'displacement-map-to-geometry tool'.

This could be a great feature when modeling buildings using photomatch .
Sketchup could generate a displacement map from a facade picture and transform it into 3D.
In this way,we could have windows, doors and facade material bump automatically 'hard modeled' into geometry.
A tremendous photorealism boost (definitely for rendering )....but only possible if Sketchup can handle higher poly models off course.

kwistenbiebel

OK ....sorry about that .

remus

How would that work with locking axes for movement? I like the directional focing quite a lot...

remus

you know if you use the move tool you can force the direction of movement using the arrow keys, i was basically asking how you would like to work your nudge tool around forcing the direction of movement. Hope thats a bit clearer.

lewiswadsworth

While we're dreaming, I'd like to have a built-in "Make Espresso" tool, perhaps with Cappuccino (CTRL) and Mocha (SHIFT) options.

JuanV.Soler

I insist in :
%(#4000BF)[A tool that will , in a small rectangulo provided by the same tool, eliminate all the points inside and create a one single brilliant point.
That would give an enormous ability to close faces.
Most useful when elevating a complex sum of planes.]

When you are drawing a building you get many times the non coplanar faces. It is absolutely impossible to get the right point to close a face properly.

I want that tool.