I guess the Gecko was not a good idea. I have now started a new post for Studio Rendering, using a green dragon: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81%26amp;t=56904

there was a problem with LO13 which crashed during startup in connection with special characters in user names. Which then was fixed with LO of SU13M2. Norbert

Al.. I PM'd you an idea.

Yep, just now ran into this after installing GoPro. This solution fixed it. Many Thanks !!!

For the fun, any regulate! SimLab 1 second [image: YG11_jag.jpg]

very good! i'll try the experiment as well. if so this would be something they should fix soonest as its a real pita.

Oh I should fix that, I am in the Boulder area now (up in Longmont).

That's a work around if Java's not available... Sometimes decompression tools also hijack .JAR extensions ! If you are using PC only you can use VBS with 'unzip' etc...

Only Sketchup::ComponentDefinition and Sketchup::ComponentInstance will have dictionaries with that special name.

@kalli said: Thanks, I think I read (several locations around the web) although I can't find them right this minute, that it is listed as being 2012 compatible. Having said that, understand I could be completely in error. The App page shows 2013 only Compatible with: AutoCAD 2013 AutoCAD Architecture 2013 AutoCAD ecscad 2013 AutoCAD Electrical 2013 AutoCAD Mechanical 2013 AutoCAD MEP 2013 AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013

@al hart said: @tig said: The model.modified? method determines if the Model has been modified since the last save. That would work if there was a "saved" Observer, ... The "saved" callbacks are in the Sketchup::ModelObserver class (where they should be, because there can be more than one model open on the Mac. But you can write a generic model observer that handles all open model instances, since the model instance's reference is passed to most callbacks.)

@gaieus said: Hehe. You got me. I should go back to school. Does IRender do displacement mapping? I did not know that, great! Yes - but we haven't found a great use for it yet. We worked on a ruby to create bump maps and displacement maps from SketchUp models. Basically you render the scene - say a wall with 3D depth - or a window treatment - of rocks - with a camera point straight on - in OpenGL - but save a greyscale image using the Z-depth for the intensity, and then use it as a bump map or displacement map. (This could be done purely in Ruby as well by getting the Z-distance at each pixel and creating an image using the Z-distances for greyscale intensity) It was hard to find a good example for it. e.g. Background windows which would have many fewer faces in SketchUp - but still render will from different angles because of the mapping. Here is a sample from of the image from the procedure - which we wrote for experimentation but never put into a product. [image: Rock-bump-images.jpg] The problem was creating a SketchUp model good enough to use for the bump maps. A brick wall would be easy - but it also easy to create a decent bump map for brick using Paint. So you need a more complex sculptured surface - or rocks. When we asked at the time no one could supply a good model of rocks which would be useful for creating a bump map or displacement map image.