Topics created by Abe Megahed

That's a neat little program. Is there anywhere to freely host a hypercosm model to be viewed by the public? I would love to be able to rotate through some of the great models that people on here have made. Hell, I think there is a whole city being modeled right now by someone in the gallery, and screen grabs just don't do it justice.

Jim,

This is one of the new interfaces for the new exporter (there are several). It's actually "skinnable" so it comes with about a dozen different user interface skins that you can choose from, each with different features. Here are some samples:
http://www.hypercosm.com/products/teleporter/sketchup/pro/features/applet_skins/index.html

Here's how to apply new skins:
http://www.hypercosm.com/products/teleporter/sketchup/pro/features/applet_skins/how_to_use/index.html

There's also an online "skin repository" that we've started where you can download new skins:
http://www.hypercosm.com/download/skins/index.html

Since the skins are all just HTML and Javascript, any web developer could make new skins. In fact, if you kept the funtionality the same, you could just make new skins by changing the graphics and HTML of existing skins and you wouldn't need to even worry about the Javascript. Ideally, I'd like to see some artistically minded user interface designers building different types of new and improved user interfaces (and hopefully letting us upload them to our public online repository so others could use them).

As far as building exporters for the free version of SketchUp, I would certainly love to be able to do this, but unfortunately the free version of SketchUp doesn't support exporters (or importers) or any kind. So, we can't do much about that - you'll have to take that issue up with SketchUp!

Best,

-abe.

Abe Megahed
CTO, Hypercosm
megaheda@hypercosm.com
(608) 229-2829

Pixero,

The only thing that comes to mind right off hand is checking to see if you have permission to run ActiveX controls. If that's not the problem, then I was wondering if you could zip up your PowerPoint and applet and send them to me to check out (my email address is listed below). I'm sure that we can work this out, I just need more information to go on.

Abe Megahed
CTO, Hypercosm
megaheda <AT> hypercosm.com
(608) 229-2829

Seems this one doesn't work for us cheapskate Google SU folks due to lack of the proper 3D exporter.