Until now I was a bit busy with studies, but I'm looking forward to next week, when I can continue the project after my last exam.

In the meantime, I found new data that has a precision of 1cm (before I had 10cm)! So as it is not much effort to type the numbers in during modeling, I thought it would be reasonable not to ignore it (because otherwise if later higher precision was needed, I would have to remodel it).

So far so good, but now the problem: The medieval builders were not perfect. With a precision of 1cm, that means a square is a rectangle. Ok, I can do this. But then, the cupola must be elliptical...
One other thing that I found was that the 84m long nave is on the northern side 40cm to short, so there is trapezoid distortion resulting in flexed roofs (with diagonal lines).
Every measurement has its errors, but I think 5cm is really reliable execept of this awry nave.

So my question is (mainly to Gaieus): What precision is usually used in archaeology? Where should I draw the line between the "real building" and the "ideal" building (that the builders intended to achieve)?

Have you seen the button "options" in export options? I don't see why it shouldn't work. Unfortunately, you can not set the animation length there. So if you want for example 12s of animation, that makes 72/12=6 frames per second. Then go to each scene's properties and set the time so that the complete duration will be 12s. You can also set the resolution.
If you export jpeg images, the speed is ful in your hands and you can put the animation together in another program.

There's also a large amount of different ways to get customized results. See this thread.

I hope that helps.

Maybe you know it already, we want to get rid of Angie Merkel. This candidate has the highest popularity for becoming the next german Chancellor:

So might he not only take over Obama's slogan, but also overtake Obama's success

Did you check if cookies are still allowed? Maybe the configuration was a bit confused.

I'm not an expert about displacement, but as far as I know, smoothing is only a shading technique, so you have the same amount of faces, but they look smooth. I think the renderer creates geometry from the displacement map, so the subsequent smoothing will have no effect. Try to subdivide.

Hello!
I spend regularly much time in 3d-warehouse browsing my favourite modeler's profiles for new submissions. Now I have made a convenient solution for this:

This is a Firefox extension that automatically executes search queries, filters the results and presents all models that you have not seen yet.

In the attachment, you find two files. The .xpi is the extension itself and can be installed by dragging it into the firefox application window. The .html website can be placed in whatever directory want. If you like, add it on your favourites bar.

I decided to post it today, although it has not reached the final state (which seems to me unachievable). The script uses functions that are not accessible from normal javascript, and require user script (which is available by the Firefox extension Greasemonkey). Thanks to Anthony Lieuallen, I could compile the Greasemonkey script to a normal extension which is easy to install and does not anymore require Greasemonkey. Due to technical issues, I could not include the html file in the extension.

I hope it will be also useful to others,
happy sketching and browsing wishes
Aerilius

Firefox add-on

I just used it for a terrain with steep slopes (a vertical rock face). The plugin has much better results than the polygon reducer (which produces many long stretched vertices).

I like your idea much! Maybe the vertex size should also consider the slope.

The pipes sound good, but - if he keeps blowing - I'm waiting for the big drum... BAAANG

In Australia, they call him lollipop:

What I think is a reasonable step.
As already stated in other topics, the main focus will not anymore be in geo-modeling, and currently the low engagement of Google in Sketchup and the not real cross-platform compatibility set a limit to Sketchup.

But I think Sketchup will completely change its appearance in some years. Chrome OS (= a browser OS) and 3d in the browser can initiate a new 3d hype and need an efficient modeling tool - maybe in the browser. (I'm not a programer, but I worry about if javascript is efficient enough to be giant leap for mankind)

Then give him a coke! The phosphoric acid will wash him away...

If he consists not of calcite, he may be marble dust in synthetic resin. Then you revealed him as a fake.

What is double?

I found them, but I think they are not good enough for 3dwh, some are only fragments (which I used for a photomontage). They played to much Half-Life...

By the way, I searched in the user control but could not find how to change my username into "Aerilius". Is that possible?

I also have the open source idea in my mind for a long time now. I think Sketchup is the most untypical software that Google offers (all other software fit Google's profile).

For me, SU development seems to be a bit unprofitable for Google. They can not finance it with advertisement like in web-apps, I don't know if Google has any other software that is commercial ( 5 0 0 $).

The Sketchup team has a lack of personal. We do not know what happens with (secret) development although we regularly contribute suggestions for new features or improvements. I think the secret and closed development is the most important obstacle towards innovations. The extremely wide distribution and use of that program means also a high potential of the community. I think there are even many developers that have no possibility to contribute to this closed source app.

It is not preventable that linux operating systems will become part of the major operating systems (the windows kernel is one of the last surviving not-linux/not-bsd kernels).
The fact that SU is not yet really cross-platform (not like firefox and many others), means that Google Chrome OS will not be able to run a Sketchup version. For netbooks, that may be acceptable or not (I have none). But the new OS is also supposed to storm the desktop market (if it's not a flop).
So in near or far future, Google will have to give it up or let it free for open source.

Maybe the development of the new 3d format O3D will initiate a change when 3d graphics will be usable in the browser (-> web-apps)?

This one is situated on the island Usedom (Germany/Poland). With it's water proof pitched roof, it tries to repel all floodings.

Great! Maybe I can dig out some png-romans that I made and share them in the 3d-warehouse (if they say "Certe, imus ad domus negotiationis"). You are quite lucky that you could take real photos, because on the internet I didn't find much.

And of course I have one with a horribly disguised italian policeman who requested 5€ for that.

Genau,
hab ich auch hier gefunden:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/T3ggfCJR_u_Lz35iAFxxWw?feat=directlink

Schade, dass es nicht mehr Fotos gab von den anderen "exciting geo-modeling features under development for a future release" (3dwh@twitter).

I don't know if you need a png (like this ->)
or separate maps for rendering. Take what you need...

diffuse and alpha channel

It reminds me on http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net
I haven't understood yet why this can be more efficient and less energy consuming than normal buildings, but they say it would be a green building!

This one would have also reached 2's, if the government wouldn't have paid a car-scrap bonus...

simply: yes

You can do that with nearly all tools in Sketchup. Try it for the move tool: Select an object, move it while holding down ie. the left arrow key. After dropping it, type in "2m", enter, and then "5x", enter.