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mike,
regarding new releases of Mac OS i prefer to act like i do with recently opened restaurants: let them setlle down and iron out all the wrinkles. after all the app companies have upgraded their apps to the new system then i jump in. i have no beta tester adventurousness in this regard.
i have had enough with little conflicts and incompatibilities during my time: my entry in the mac world was under system 7!
hi, andrew
rest assured your contribution is of utmost importance. organizing a model is very important; it is key to managing complex models, i would say.
it always amazes me that most models i download (from other sources than this board) are very sloppy organization-wise: in general their elements are not grouped nor organized in layers. someone has suggested this is done so that other people cannot manipulate those models. i frankly do not believe it.
i am adopting the kind of reasoning you kindly showed to us. thanks again.
edson
you are absolutely right. it was on office management and not specifically on SU. thanks.
utiler,
there was a long thread on the same subject a couple of months ago. i would search for it but i am in a hurry.
one of the key issues, if google wants SU to grow up, is to make it take advantage of the machines available. it is ridiculous to have a core 2 or core 4 chip and not to be able to use its processing power to the full when modelling in SU.
@solo said:
Come to think of it, there is a thread about anti SU snobbery, now if the next "pro version" included a built in render engine, texture editor and additional modeling tools (bolean included) and the free version a basic learning addition without the bells and whistles, we may be taken more seriously.
it is my opinion that one's credibility has to do much more with the quality of one's output than with the apps we use. in the past, when vectorworks was called minicad, people used to laugh at its name but had to agree in the end that one could produce very good stuff with it.
furthermore, let us for a moment accept that SU is for hobbyists, not for serious pros. in this case, people like you, solo, who are capable of creating amazing work with SU, should be held in much greater esteem than people who use mammoths like maya to create the same thing.
check this thread on the very same subject.
mateo,
what i was referring to is the idea of making one or all beaches follow a consistent look (miami, copacabana, it does not really matter).
but i have nothing against umbrellas, trees, etc. my suggestions would be to create pergolas, bars with verandahs, places for groups and couples. you can get a warmth-feeling arrangement with wood, bamboo, fabric, color. all this without resembling directly another place.
once i saw in florida how they create wooden walkways over the dunes, a great way to protect the environment and still be able to use it.
decks are a good idea too, people like wood everywhere. another idea would be to create some kind of pool with sea water, much in the way siza did in the outskirts of oporto.
i hope i helped you in some way.
hi mateo,
since you ask for suggestions i will give you an opinion. it is just my way of seeing things so please do not get annoyed at my sincerity.
i would not go for the theme park idea. leave it to disney and for cenographers. what the world does not need is more fake stuff. why pretend to be somewhere else than the place where those beaches are?
why do you not go for authenticity? i would try and uncover the local character (the so called genius loci) and accentuate it.
a theme park project will get old in a few years (to me they are born dead but anyway). something authentic may be interesting for decades or centuries. but you are the one to decide what to do.
check this two wondeful tutorials on arrays, created by our member gidon.
apart from everything you said before, which i agree with, i would add 2 more:
i eagerly await for SU 7 to see what improvements they will be able to bring us, but i do not think SU should become a do-all app. no need to have a rendering engine if there are so many in the market, paid or free. this is true for a number of features people have been suggesting to google.
bruce,
thanks for one more tip. yes, i have resized some pics inside sitebuilder. as you may recall i am working within the windows partion in my mac and i do not have photoshop in there. going from mac to win and vice-versa means restarting the machine...
perhaps i should install some free windows graphic editor to do it.
cheers.
didier,
sorry, but I could not find them.
edson
coen,
I had just posted a request for the exact same thinng when I saw this post. Perhaps being redundant at times is not a bad thing.
regards.
hi jim,
i tried what you suggested and it worked beautifully.
thanks.
I have tried to install mover.rba couple of times but not a thing happens. it does not show up in any menu; it is as if it was not there.
I must surely be doing something wrong; the problem is to know what.
I unzipped it and put the folder named mover Folder in the plugins folder of SU. inside that folder there is another named Jim Foltz which holds 3 more.
could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
cheers.
some of you may remember a very long thread called Blogs through which modelhead taught basically me and alan woods the basics of site building.
well, the site i developed out of those lessons is now online. there is still some stuff to include but the essence is there.
i hope you do not find it too offensive to your eyes...
and thanks to bruce once more for his help.
congratulations to both of you. very good renders and very interesting project. i am sure your friend must have been pleased by your renders.
kris, this is a great idea, equivalent to turning parts of a project on and off to keep a file as light as possible.
i will use next time. now all i want is to finish this damn competition! thanks.