Thank you for the clarification.

While on the top of rendering.. does anyone have any recommendations for the best rendering program for a Mac? (or maybe a couple at a few different price points) I looked at IRender nXt from Render Plus but, unless I missed it, there is no availability for a Mac.

Thanks again.

I'm looking to buy a desktop at the end of the summer and was hoping to get some opinions on the model I'm leaning towards..

Specs:
27" iMac
2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
8GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 4x2GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive
ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB

What does everyone/anyone think of this configuration? Would that be good for modeling programs such as Sketchup, CAD, and the like.

Any/all opinions welcome.

Thanks!

Hey everyone.

I recently downloaded some of Arroway Textures different textures, wanting to use them for sketchup. I then found that there are 3 different "parts" to each material: diffuse, bump and specularity. One seems to be the main material, one for the depth and one for texture I'm guessing? Anyway.. when adding a texture to Sketchup there is not the ability to combine these three parts into one texture (as far as I know).. does anyone have a way to do this? Or a program to do this? I'm really open to anything, I just don't know what to do with the files.

Thanks!

thank you all for the replys!

Hey everyone. I hope I'm posting this is the correct place.

I'm still learning sketchup and while watching a video talking about "cutting planes and sections", I noted a part where the instructor creates a ground section cut that leaves what looks like a floor plan. I have not been able to achieve this. When I put my section cut on the ground I just see nothing.

Here is a screen capture of what the tutorial shows: http://img576.imageshack.us/i/picture1gp.png/

Here's what I got after selecting "section plane" and clicking on the ground outside of my house: http://img203.imageshack.us/i/picture2ffp.png/

Can anyone offer any advice?

PS. If it helps.. here's the tutorial link (specific part happens at about 6:29-6:33): http://www.aidanchopra.com/tableofcontents/chapter-10/cutting-plans-and-sections

Thanks!