being single stream/strand, does this pose a real significance to SU??

Mike RL

I don't know how to do specifically what you're asking but, I may have a work around. Can you take an image capture of the information pane, and add it to the rendering as an independent object?

I believe there is a plug-in to transfer data to spreadsheet. I don't know for which program, if it matters or if it's only for windows, Mac or both. But until you figure it out, the work around might suit the purpose.

Ciao

Mike RL

Forgive my ignorance but .. who is Psystar? and why should I care? does this have something to do with SU?? Google?? Me??

Not being rude... Just asking

Ciao

Mike RL

you should post that on the testimonials link from the SU home page

In the go-2-school.com podcast, they discussed , using photo shop, how to create tileable textures. If you can create the trunk and branches, or shoots --whatever the case may be-- and create a shape of what the outer foliage is (i.e. ball, rectangle, teardrop, cone etc.) With the ability of transparent background in PS it will allow to show though to the branches, or whatever, creating the illusion of an actual tree or shub ir ... whatever. hehe, I'm sounding like a valley girl .. or whetever lol

Ciao

Mike RL

I'm not sure what you mean by coplanar faces but if you add coplanar edges, you can stop the "photo-match" on the spot you want. If you're trying to recreate a building, any reason why you're not using Photo-match??

I hope this helped?!

Mike RL

I'm not with Google. But I'm curious as to what you mean by your request. What is it you want exactly?? I don't have that other program you mentioned.

Mike RL

dude.. the fact that you can rattle off all the specs of your rendering kinda tells me that you don't use component, groups, layers nor section planes. If you can turn off a bunch of stuff you can see anyway, use some of the aforementioned "tools". I once did, in my early learning stage, an entire garage. I know it doesn't sound like much but all my lumber had "milled" edges, like the real stuff, I also included all the rebar, truss plates, tornado hangers. I drew all the shingles and plywood layers, By the time I was done, it did like yours. THEN I leaned about components, layers, etc. Now I have a complete animation I sold to a company which hey use as tutorials to train their high-school student (work experience program) laborers. It has absolutely no glitches or slowdowns. Not even a hick-up during scene transitions.

Mike RL

looks to me like you're off to a pretty good start. For tip and trick, there are all kinds on the SketchUp site (video tutorials) also you might want to checkout the go-2-school.com podcasts.. very informative.

Other then that, if you want to get better.. it's the same as becoming a rock star, lots of work and practice, practice, practice.

Have lotsa fun

Mike RL

the inside .. couple times a year. Kinda depends on the amount of dusting you do in the area where the machine is. I have a soft bristle paintbrush I keep in my wife's desk ad use it and a dust swiffer thingy once or twice a month to clear the vent holes and any other area where the air can get through (i.e. aroung the crack between hardware components).

Mike RL

hey Dan

Very cool. Though overboard might be a slight understatement. Have you got it posted on the 3D warehouse??

I think those may be better answered in the LightUp Forum. They have one just like this one. Probably someone's already asked the question and it's been answered.
I don't mean to sound rude. If it came across as such, I apologize.

Good luck

Mike RL

Profilers, analysts, psychologist, therapists and judges. We have the ability and training available as well as a little common sense can provide a judge with the information require as to whether a man should pay pennants with his life. I for one am okay with that.

Mike RL

@simon le bon said:

Hi Mike,
My question is not on the making holes tut itself but rather on how you made:

• to have those text explanations written on the bottom independantly from the animations
• to have only one figure, evoluting from scene to scene

??? " le résultat est vraiment pas mal!!!"

Simon.

Hey Simon,

If you have downloaded the file, dissect and analyze it. Look at each scene and see what layers are used to crate it. Also, toggle the section planes on and off.

Thanks for the compliment.

Mike RL

PS for more discussion on this, you can contact me directly if you wish.
basic.woodworks on Skype

thanks for the thought, I hope so too. Last I heard he was on the mend but mentally... who knows. This is one of those things that can cripple him for life as easy as it can make him a stronger better man.

I grew up hard. I always swore that i'd never let that happen to my kids but you can help who they get mixed up with and what they get into. Maybe I was too strict? who knows. But even so.. Having seen the things I've seen and put through enough to fill 4 lifetimes, I still believe in capital punishment. It has it's place. Even God, if you believe in it, send should to eternal damnation. We just make sure they get there sooner rather then later.

It is nice to know, though, that there are some people who've not been touched by violence or victimized in anyway. with all due respect, I'd have to say that it's like sitting o the side lines and questioning the ref's decision.

Regards

Mike RL

I was a "young offender", small stuff mostly, and if it weren't for my willingness to change and the help, a stranger from the other side of the country who took me in and the Quebec government's willingness to let someone else deal with the problem, i.e. me, I could easily be in a whole other place today. As a young adult, I was ask to return to tat man's farm to help with a youth program or "lost causes". Though this was ~20 years~ ago, our success rate was about 80%. Meaning that 8 out of 10 youths got their act together and never appear before a judge again, at least in the 3 years I worked there as a counselor. This was unheard of. At the time, the stats in the province were the opposite, where as 8 out of 10 would land back in court and in jail.

I know this was years ago but in the same token, our jails are overcrowded. New ones are built every year. A lot of cases that end up in court involving youth are over petty little things like shop lifting, driving infractions, and vandalism (example: setting off a fire extinguisher or pulling a fire alarm). In the majority of case, it goes to court, gets recorded in the stats as youth offense, and the kid, who really wasn't a bad kid, just not very bright, ends up with a warning, probation and restitution (if the case requires). Of the ones that commit a serious offense which warrants a jail term, between 60 and 80 per cent of those will reappear in court and go back to jail. This was told to me by a parole officer about a year or so ago.

So yes, in ALL the kids who go to court may 80% don't reappear but probably 80% of that group are kids who lacked judgment and did something stupid, not criminal. The 20% however will reappear, and half of those throughout adulthood.

I know we would all like to think that we live in a better place than we do and that the things we hear about only happen in other places, not hear and not that serious, but I must disagree with me learned forum acquaintance, we only hear of about 1 to 5 percent of what's really going on. No city wants the world to know how much violence really occurs in their streets. No country want the world to know that it may not be safe to come and visit. In turn, the media only reports the most heinous and violent crimes, unless it's a really slow news day. My son, to my shame, has attacked and left someone to die. In my books, he should be in jail for no less then 7 years, but more appropriately 10-12. Whether the victims of such crimes survive or not, should hold no bearing on the sentence; as the intent was there.

For year the Province of Alberta denied having any gang chapters within it's border. Yet I personally know, through association, the man who was the Alberta Hell's Angels Chapter for years and he's lived in Alberta his whole life.

The city of Edmonton denied having gangs for years until one day, out of the blue, they held a press conference announcing the formation of an anti-gang task force. And of course, << we have no more gang trouble >> was soon to follow. Ironically, the day after a formal announcement of success, a man was stabbed to death at an LRT station (public rail transit system) by members of a local gang, so reported the local newspapers. Needless to say, they never said that again. Nearly every week-end, last summer, there were between 2 and 6 stabbings on Whyte Ave alone (where most nightclub are) but they don't report it all the time because it become old news and frighten the locals which is harmful for the economy and public image of the city. And for the record, this is but one city. How many cities in THIS country have the same issue?? How about in the continent??

We need to get our heads out of the sand and at least acknowledge the fact that we have a problem. To say that it's all media hype is ludicrous. How often do you hear of car-jacking? Know anyone it's happened to? In North America, if you average it out and spaced it out over 24 hrs, there is a car jacking occurring every 2 minutes.

Mike RL

I give you props, Tom. Funny, honest, to the point (the last part at least) and true.

Mike RL

@deathcloud said:

awww ive used su for animation presentation and it was blurry and because it only traces scenes created it movement and camera view is floating and pixels were poorly noticed.. i think blender can do it better the problem is think we need to rerender it.. im not pretty sure of this i also need feedbacks how to..

hello,

When created my first video, I thought as you did and went into panic mode, as I'm not versed at all in video creation but in keeping my calm, I learned the following.

When exporting your animation, you can choose other formats through the "option" tab, turn off "anti-alias" or "transparent background" (which will give you a black back drop if unchecked)and pixel size of the pictures in the video. In the "option" menu, depending of the format you choose, you may also select the pixel size of the video, frame rate per second as well as compression method and quality of the video through the "expert" option.

Trial and error is the best way to learn. The one piece of advice I can give you is if you have lines of "stand alone" text, make sure to increase it's size as it may appear much smaller on a higher resolution video.

Best of luck

Mike RL

Thank you for the tip Gieus.

I selected "view my posts" and the option to edit was prominent. I clicked on it and was able to reword the message, alter the comment to the attachment, delete the file and attach the revised version.

Thanks AGAIN for your wisdom. I'm very grateful.

Regards

Mike RL

@gaieus said:

Mike, you can always edit your own posts and delete files from it and uplo9ad new attachments. (At least I think you can - I can do it with anyone's posts but maybe only because I'm special Just tell me if you need help - or post your revised tut in a PM if you cannot change it).

Many times I have heard "religion and politics don't mix".

Religion and politics mixed, what a terrifying thought. In retrospect, this is what we have here. The subject of capital punishment is pretty much governed by the two. On one hand the strong religious voice of the New Testament part of the Bible, and on the other, the law, based on that same voice. Although it has been amended, lord knows how much and how often, over the years.

I've also heard "lock on door only keep the honest people out".

Given the opportunity, a dishonest many will take a $20.00 for the counter at a restaurant, if no one is watching, yet he won't open the till. A little over a century ago, we hung cattle rustlers and horse thieves on a regular basis. The argument could be that this law was ridiculous as we still had a lot of rustlers and horse thieves around and it did not deter them. I think what we should be considering is not how many people we hung but how many we did not because of the fear of the punishment. Will there always be murders, rapists and pedophiles?? It's probably safe to say yes. Would there be a considerate amount less of it? Almost certainly yes. Whether it's due to media or society in general or our own upbringing, a lot of us have been almost desensitized to the act of killing someone. How many people still look to hire someone to kill their spouse, business partner or whoever else. If the sentence was death instead of 10 to 15 for conspiring, how many of those would think of it, sure, but abandon the idea out of fear.

May be the oldest saying in the wold: "Putting the fear of God into him". Implying the "hell" card. If you .. blah-blah, you're going to hell and therefore putting the fear of the wrath of God. Why not put the fear of the law into people's minds. The wrath of the justice system. Fear of consequences. A young man I know, in retribution, went to another young man's house, rang the door bell, waited for the other to nearly open the door. He then kick the door and knocked the other back, sprayed him in the face with mace, to blind and incapacitate him, the hacked and slash him with a blooming meat cleaver. He waited for the other to get his bearing, somewhat, and told him "I told you I'd get you back". He then walked away and left him for dead. When he was found, within an hour later, he was nearly dead, with his gut literally spilling out onto the floor.

To guarantee a quick conviction, they reduced the charge from attempted murder to aggravated assault. !4 months later, I saw him at a Tim Hortons doughnut shop having coffee with his buddies. Oh yeah, he got the other young man because he had told a couple of other guys where he could be found, not realizing that the reason they were looking for him was because he'd stolen a lot of money from them.

So tall me .. is the justice system really working? Knowing that most "career" criminals escalate, the end prize really should be harsh. Never mind God, as few even believe, we have to put th fear of the law into them.

My long winded opinion.

Mike RL