Ok, no problem. I'll install Sketchup 2016. I have postponed it because I hate to re-install all the plugins (and finding the updated ones). It gives me a reason to stop procrastinate.

I must do something wrong. I am not able to have the plugin do something. I open a model, push make show and nothing appears to happen.
As I have the same result on a PC with Sketchup 2014 and a Mac with Sketchup 2015, I suppose there is something I am missing, but I don't have any idea about what it could be.
The console message begins with an error:
on the Mac
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method axes' for #<Sketchup::Model:0x007fcf137ee548>> on the PC Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method axes' for #Sketchup::Model:0x73c5528>

Nice. It is something I was waiting for. Is the plugin also compatible with Sketchup Make?

Are the images generated as png? Is it possible to have a transparent background? I would love that.

There is a filter in the GMIC package for Gimp that does this. It is called inPainting, I think.

@solo said:

And here we can agree, Hamas is the cancer, but how do we remove the cancer without killing the patient?

I can certainly agree on that. And I have not the solution, if even one exists (which I greatly doubt).

@solo said:

A clear Palestinian compromise would actually be pre 1967 borders, but hey that will never happen.

It certainly won't happen with the Hamas. Their official program is the full map in green and the destruction of Israel.

@solo said:

Your opinion is obviously biased as you are Jewish, had you not had a horse in this race I'm sure you would have a different opinion.

And no, I am not jewish (are you arab?), I am not even a great admirer of Israël that seems to have drifted from the state of its founders into a semi theocratic state looking more and more like other states around it.
But war is war and terrorism is terrorism. No state can accept to have missiles targeting its civil population without using its military forces to stop that. And if you fire missiles at your neighbour's civilians, you can't complain too much when he retaliates.

@solo said:

@unknownuser said:

BTW, if Hamas wants to stop the Israelis strikes they just have to accept the truce (refused twice) and stop hurling missiles at israëlis civilians. No missiles, no military operation.

And hopefully Israel will stop the blockade and the illegal settlements also right, so we agree?

Ah ok, it is not the dying childrens that bother you, what you want is not stopping a war but a full palestinian victory. Not the same, at all... You should be clearer when argumenting.

@solo said:

Question: What is worse, using women and children as human shields or attacking targets knowing that women and children are being used as human shields?

So you think that Israelis should stop trying to protect their own women and childrens from Hamas missiles to avoid hurting the palestinians women and children used as human shields by palestinians? That's silly.

And to answer your question: the worst is using your own women and childrens as human shields instead of putting yourself in the way to protect them.

@solo said:

@bhoritz said:

@mike lucey said:

Freedom Fighters or Terrorists! It all depends on which side of the fence one is on.

No. It is simpler than that. Freedom fighters target the state forces, terrorists target civilians.

So are you saying that Israeli's are terrorists as they are killing women and children?

Targeting... (but I suppose you understood).

It is what you targets that makes the difference. War is war and you don't have control on all that happens.
But Hamas targets civilians in Israël without even bothering to fight soldiers and just trying to hurt as many civilians as they can.
IDF targets ennemies fighters hiding between civilians used as human shields.
If Israel had the same criminal ethos as Hamas, it wouldn't be just some hundreds deads.

BTW, if Hamas wants to stop the Israelis strikes they just have to accept the truce (refused twice) and stop hurling missiles at israëlis civilians. No missiles, no military operation.

@mike lucey said:

Freedom Fighters or Terrorists! It all depends on which side of the fence one is on.

No. It is simpler than that. Freedom fighters target the state forces, terrorists target civilians.

Thanks. An extra step is not a problem at all. I can make most changes on jpg and make the transparent cuts last.

I have begun to make some models that I want to be very NPR, to use as backdrops to some illustrations. So, I have been using a lot the Sketchup capacity to edit a texture in an external program (Photoshop in this case).

I place a material on a face, make the texture unique and then edit it in Photoshop.
My problem is that I would like to leave some parts transparent, but the texture that I can edit in Photoshop is in jpg.

I did try using a material that is in png, but the texture I can edit in Photoshop is always a jpg. I suppose that when I make the texture unique, Sketchup saves it as jpg. Is there a way to have Sketchup save it as png? I didn't find a preference for it.

You could find some ready stuff to include here:

http://www.goodmangames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1324&sid=b75ac4ad3e8332f7def4c8b535aa1687
http://www.goodmangames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&p=21227

It is based on Goodman Games D&D scenarios, but generic enough to use in other projects.
The same guy has made lots of elements available on the Sketchup Warehouse.

Sadly, it only saves in .3dmf and I am not sure that format can be used in any other application or converted to .obj or some other format.