Even better, Gaieus! Thanks for that trick

Wow, Johnny, that's really good...thanks for your ideas!

Here are a couple links to help you model irregular surfaces in sketchup:

This site is FULL of excellent tips, tricks, and methods:
http://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/tips-tricks

For the still renders, you could make the physical studio bigger so the edges don't show, or you could rotate the model within the studio for each shot. The animation would be trickier - you'd have to make an enclosed studio, and make your animation inside (but I'm not familiar with Kerkythea animations so that may or may not work.)

Use temporary lines and inferencing...delete the lines when you find your points.

Welcome, Sandra! ...and excellent job on the render and animation even though I can't see that lamp in my room Maybe next time don't let the studio setup show in the render
My last question - could you show the light from the lamp? Hopefully that will that be in your next set of renders? Good luck!

Its taking shape! Keep posting

http://www.mozy.com will back up your files to their server automatically - up to 1 GB for free.

Ditto that....Thanks for posting these, Paul!

@unknownuser said:

For as much as I babble on this Forum, I don't post that much. . . .mostly cuz I am so outta my league...

Sounds like me

That render looks good...how did you set up the lighting? Could you post a screenie from SU?

Looks great

Better strap that down good Good job on the trailer

I had to export OBJ, then import to Vue. I also have Infinite on my 64-bit machine and it works.

Atta boy, Richard...I hope you win!!

Will this work? Make a copy of the model (or just the parts of the model that need to be textured), with both copies occupying the exact same place, make one textured and one untextured, and toggle visibility using layers.

I would like to see UV tools and texture mapping.

Excellent, thanks for the info!

there are some delicious renders here - NewOne, are those textures applied in SU or in Maxwell?

Same thing happened to me but there was an option to post anyway.