SketchyConferences
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this idea is very farfetched and I don't know if it has any other purpose than fun. thats why I placed it in the wish list and not in the ruby section.
many months ago I talked with a fellow student about a design (by chatting in skype) to communicate our ideas we used an online drawing application (even simpler than paint...). since then I never got this idea out of my head, this little dream of such a tool within SketchUp - "SketchyConferences" so to speak.
I don't know, how it will look like. perhaps with little images of every member on one side of the screen.
(pav_3j, solo, remus, I hope you don't mind me taking your avatars - I just took you randomly)
you should be able to chat with each other (by clicking on one of the icons to open up the console). alternatively you could have audio- and video connection (whereas the little image is replaced by the video).
every member of the conference has his own cursor - all cursors are visible and labeled.
every one can draw and manipulate geometry in the stage (I don't know how right management will be handled yet). all alterations are visible to the members in realtime.
what do you think of this idea?
what is important to make this work?
what nice tools could be added?again, this is only a dream. so feel free to post all your wonderful ideas.
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Oh, geez...you're going to give Google ideas now. They'll throw all kinds of coders at putting this capability in Orkut, and no one will be left to work on SU 7.
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Jakob,
You don't even know how close you are to REALITY
I've seen things (that can ALREADY be done in SU NOW) that'd amaze you! Please, wait a couple of weeks. -
i think it's a good idea, i proposed something like this a couple years ago but got no responses from the forums.
hopefully they way you have it illustrated will get them up and going.
a long time ago, some classmates of mine attempted this with the quake game engine but to no avail. Come on google this is the one thing that no one is doing successfully.
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This would BE SO AWSOME. Make sure they know ur saying this. all is possible
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Yeah they could serve it up on Google Warehouse. Maybe have a private mode for more sensitive projects. I think we could use some more feedback from some of the power users here that could elaborate on some of the specifics of how that would work.
How did that post get linked there Gai? That looks like the old forum?
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@cheffey said:
How did that post get linked there Gai? That looks like the old forum?
Shhhhhh. It's a beta-tester secret.
Like they say at Google..."Lasers! Think lasers!"
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@cheffey said:
How did that post get linked there Gai? That looks like the old forum?
It ISthe old forum. But now I'll delete the link
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@gaieus said:
You don't even know how close you are to REALITY
I've seen things (that can ALREADY be done in SU NOW) that'd amaze you! Please, wait a couple of weeks.well that sounds really promising, Gaieus. now you made me really
but in the meantime we could develope the idea even further. what for example is about the sharing of textures? if one member of the conference adds a texture... will it be uploaded to the others instantly or not until he presses an update button (to keep traffic down)?
or: could we implement a peer to peer network (what it has to be in any case, I think), where you can use SketchUp to share files (simply drag a file from your computer onto the avatar of one of your friends and the file will be uploaded...)
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Oooh, juicy news (sort of
) This is a really good idea jakob, and i really look forward to whatever it is your hinting at gai, sounds good.About the model/texture sharing thing, i can imagine running in to copyright problems very easily with that.
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I missed this one - What a fantastic idea Jakob, absolutely fantastic!
We can all do the group chat in msn and skype now, but doing this in SU and being able to see a live model would be simply amazing.
This would make working around problems you encounter so much better with the help of others who have the answer. Some really good possibilties here. -
You are going to far!
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Watch the video and imagine that sketchup on both machines or multiple machines is getting data from a central location a server somewhere. Scott is downloading data sets and that data is then translated by ruby into geometry. It would appear that through ruby Sketchup can communicate bi-directional to a remote computer so the possibility of shared modeling does exist.
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that would be awesome. I simply have to trust your judgement with this, for I have no knowledge of programming at all.
but imagine you have a live modeling event going on at the scf, where loads of people can watch someone model in real time...
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I imagine someone could make some good money teaching people how to use sketchup this way!
If I only knew how to make rubies... I love this idea!
Gaieus... it has been a couple of weeks... am I missing something? -
@unknownuser said:
Gaieus... it has been a couple of weeks... am I missing something?
No, you are not. There are possibilities but we need to organise everything beforehand. There are cool softwres as well. Have a look at Susan's "Webinars" for instance.In this sample video she is tutoring a "class" (notice her online webcam face on the right, too). At around the half of the webinar one of the students shares his computer window with her (and I think with the others) but what is relly cool is that at the end of the sample, she takes control of the student's computer and shows some FOV trick on it remotely! Yes, it's her who is actually modeling there!
I hope, Susan, you don't mind this "free advertising" here!
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I'm resurrecting this thread beacause I need a favour. BTW thanks Gai for the free advertising!
When I first launched my webinars I placed the sample video on my website and I wrote the html myself to run it. Now I don't know html formally and despite that I have been making corrections and changes to my webpages for 5 years. Sometimes I get into trouble, like potentially with this video demo page.
Most people had no problem running it but I did get reports, from this forum in fact, that some people wre unable to run it.
I have had a professional revise the code for me but we do need the page tested. If you would be good enough to test the page and report any issues, I would be very grateful. Thanks much guys. -
@sorgesu said:
I'm resurrecting this thread beacause I need a favour. BTW thanks Gai for the free advertising!
When I first launched my webinars I placed the sample video on my website and I wrote the html myself to run it. Now I don't know html formally and despite that I have been making corrections and changes to my webpages for 5 years. Sometimes I get into trouble, like potentially with this video demo page.
Most people had no problem running it but I did get reports, from this forum in fact, that some people wre unable to run it.
I have had a professional revise the code for me but we do need the page tested. If you would be good enough to test the page and report any issues, I would be very grateful. Thanks much guys.Firefox displays an empty page. Only IE seems to work.
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Thanks much. I'll get on it.
I've temporarily replaced it with the old version, which does work
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Okay,
Active on the site is my old code: http://www.entouragearts.com/webinar.htmlon a hidden page is the new professional code: http://www.entouragearts.com/webinarNorm.html
If I could ask you guys to try both and report to me any problems with either specifying the browser you are using? Many many thanks.
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