@chris fullmer said:

Thanks for the nice comments Edson.

I think your link you posted is pointing to the wrong place. That file is not on my server I think you uploaded it here:

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/ProUser/sitetech.skp

Chris

chris, you are absolutely right. i assumed you were referring to kelly's server and did not even bother to check it thoroughly. thanks for calling my attention to it.

chris,

excellent tut for another way of achieving depth in terrains.

in july, i had similar doubts and was helped by kris, gai and tom. unfortunately that thread is lost now but i can still quote from the message by tom that i had printed. it refers to the skippy mentioned below. here it goes:

@unknownuser said:

tomsdesk:
on the left of attached is a terrain (grossly exaggerated vertically) with all the edges of curbs and walks intersected (including the extra edges to form the faces that will be "stretched" during the vertical alt-move processes).

to get to the right i first picked all the gray road faces and alt-moved them to 6"...this formed my curbs (which are slightly sloped as is the case with the detail i use here). then i picked all the grass faces (not the skinny strips along the curbs and walks) and alt-moved them up 2"...the skinny strips then formed the vertical faces of the grass (slightly sloped: just like grass)

looking closer to the red circle over the right model you'll see it isn't perfect. SU still assumes in several places i wanted something different than it did for me everywhere else...so there is always a little cleanup to be done.

EDIT: the correct location is http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/ProUser/sitetech.skp

i hope it helps anyone.

today i came across a very handy screen capture little app called Jing. it allows one to capture images and videos and annotate them without having to open another app. it is very easy to learn (there is not much to learn, really) and it is FREE.

this is their site.

enjoy it!

ross,

your post shows why this is a special place, a place where people care enough for the others (mostly strangers) as to go through the effort of trying to make everyone feel confortable, lurker or not.

regards.

google earth models tend to be very simplified. i do not think they ever get any depth to them.

great idea and beautiful work.

nothing like european cities for this kind of urban continuity and homegeneity. in south america we can olny get it in some preserved quarters (not too common).

i have never heard of this and will follow this with interest.

besides the flip tool, you can mirror things using the scale tool or installing and using the ruby script mirror.rb (which can be douwnloaded here.

thanks, kelly. i will look into that.

darrel,

thanks for the script and for the tutorial. i am going to forward it to my students too. cheers.

i am probably asking too much, but would you consider doing a sort of guide to skin.rb so that everyone could understand what the script can do and how to do it?

although it means more work for you, it would allow many people to take full advantage of your fine creation.

thanks anyway.

good call, aces.

that image (skin test) is very intriguing as it suggests that the script did less complex things as it evolved in time.

hi archboy (what about giving us your name?),

each new post makes my mouth water more than the previous one. if you are doing this at 14 just image what you will be doing at 30!

cheers.

edson

i look forward to getting skinned.

cheers.

edson

hi archboy,

welcome. may i ask what exactly does skin.rb do?

regards.

edson

what exactly is your problem with mirror?

i have 4 networked macs and sometimes several people are working on the same project. my problem: i would like to create a folder on each one whose content would be always be the same. that is, it would be synchronized from time to time.

now, there is a microsoft app called foldershare that does that via internet but it does not work that well: the connection among the machines falls all the time and it does funny things to the files it synchronizes.

has anyone heard of a similar app for mac that really works? can the system do that?

hey james, thanks for one more tip to a very useful link!

hi, tig.

i have not tried your latest release yet but had a good look at the pdf. just felt like saying thanks to you for the invaluable contribution you have been doing to all of us. i use several of you other scripts and i am sure will soon use this.

best wishes.

it sounds so crazy i'll adopt it!

best.