two really...

1- as far as i can see, when purging, SU still keeps the material assigned to a group even if inside entities have different ones applied. perhaps a 'default all group's colour' option could be added to the depot. that would shrink file size even more and get rid of 'auto painting' when editing groups.

2- it would be great to have a materials list where you can pick a number of them and delete them in one go (presently either all together with 'material remover' or one by one through the browser (very slow)

3- (can't stop now) a nice right click option to select all similar material. perhaps it is already out there? (on complex models, right clicking on a material to choose 'select' takes up to a minute!)

Chris, your genius and generosity are very appreciated - Thank you!

..starting to be like the oscar night but i agree with all praise..

to add to that .. without GOD no sketchup, without sketchup no rubies, without whaat no subdivide and smooth, without subdivide and smooth...

..it would feel even more 'sketchup' if iterations or other were typed in the 'vcb' rather than a dialog box..

whaat the heck?? amazing.. it managed to bring back some old time sketchup shivers!

"SEXADECIMAL" is a common misspelling or typo for: hexadecimal

love this from from Josef's site: "For a donation as if I would be grateful!"

it's a given there's no hurry Fred... ..i'm already glad to get an answer to my question - (18 replies to my languishing post in fact) cheers!

exactly Gaieus... hear that Fred?

however Tomasz script did include an export option for instanced objects!

i am in fact waiting until he feels it is publish-able

Gaieus, Fred means this:

open the instancing brush tool box (window - instancing brush)
select your tree (or any single instance)
activate it as the brush instance (top arrow in the brush tool box)
select a place to paint the instance on
activate it as the canvas (arrow below the first in the brush box)
click on brush at the bottom and enter a name for it

this new instance you have created will show on the left pane tree (has a grey circle before the name)

now if you right click on that instance you will see a new command: 'instancing'. it lists ALL the brushes available. they can be swapped with others (which have to be created as above)

Fred..not exactly what i was looking for!

i think you all are right: model too big (though that can depend) and instancing is a unique KT feature. i believe that pretty much settles it

re. comp spray - good tool (still get strange results at times). however in this case the composition will differ from the one i obtain in KT.

re. dummies - i could be wrong but i think you can only do that with the beta version of SU2KT - the one 'us public' didn't get in the official Tomasz release.

thank you gentlemen, i will give it a look..

the instancing brush is a powerful modeler, you can generate random planting (say ivy or other random patterns) and then have that intricate object in SU for other tricks - rendering a mixture of KT and SU..

Thanks Mike - no replies for an xml importer there either. guess i'll have to post it again!

wow..57 views and not one reply!

are there any ruby chances for a KT xml importer?

due to harcoding i guess.. pity because it could be useful for those task..

remains to check whether some mouse tweaking programs can do that, you never know

Thanks Adam, good to know it is possible - now i hope someone with a ruby brain picks that up!

is it possible? say you need to repeat some difficult offsets: instead of double clicking you can instead highlight with pushpull then press the key...

better still, after you assign H as your shorcut for hide, go around with the move tool, when the object is highlighted (read selected) press the key - that way you do not have to click select etc etc.