@aerilius said:

Have you seen the kml-reference?
http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html

gx:Tour
<name>[tour name]</name>
gx:Playlist
...
gx:TourControl
gx:playModepause</gx:playMode>
</gx:TourControl>
...
</gx:Playlist>
</gx:Tour>

You can also inspect this model for more features:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e7a7633f7dc501318a124f4737362fcd

OMG I'm speechless...that ..is..AMAZING... the tour.. the self explanation...omg pure art. Words can't express how awesome it is, maybe I'm over reacting but I haven't seen anything like that before, It's beautiful, I have checked the link you send me and it's everything there but it's seems that I need knowledge in coding and programming I will study it anyway

@griffith said:

Hi everybody, I'm trying to create something like this

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/03/tour-march-madness-arenas-in-3d.html

Basically it's a normal guided tour but the main difference is that it has a head/title plus an option to continue playing the tour once you finished viewing the model and description, I've been looking around trying to do the same but I haven't figured out how to do it, maybe you can point me to the right direction (or link) I have done other tours but this option that once you get to the place mark the tour stops + it says to continue tour click play I'm SO looking forward to this.

a minor update:

Common sense tells me: I downloaded de kml so all the info showed on the tour should be ON the kml file so I explored the folders and at the end there's one folder named "tags" with a deactivated option to show folders, so I managed to view the files inside of it, however they don't show too much options to change except for the window title wich intrigues me "screen overlay" any suggestions?

Hi everybody, I'm trying to create something like this

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/03/tour-march-madness-arenas-in-3d.html

Basically it's a normal guided tour but the main difference is that it has a head/title plus an option to continue playing the tour once you finished viewing the model and description, I've been looking around trying to do the same but I haven't figured out how to do it, maybe you can point me to the right direction (or link) I have done other tours but this option that once you get to the place mark the tour stops + it says to continue tour click play I'm SO looking forward to this.

Gaeius, thomthom and OTB you are truly internet heroes I can't express the enormous amount of gratitude that I feel right now to you guys and at the same time I feel like a complete IDIOT I never thought that THIS ->>> In your Sketchup/Preferences/openGL dialogue, make sure you have maximum texture size checked. <<<-- was the solution, never thought/checked there. And for the terrain I solved it like you said Gaeius but I thought that I was doing it in the wrong way, I sliced it up because the terrain actually it's 3339x9378 but I've already resized the texture and quality to be optimal for GE.

As you can see It's a large terrain and it's full of warehouses, the one at the end was giving me problems because of the size texture but now it's solved.

Guys once again thank you very much for your advices, I'll be aware of the downsampling and the tip for the kmz uploading.

I love this forum So much, you guys rock.

Arq. Alejandro Gomez
Tabasco, Mexico

Hello guys, well I'm currently working on a project wich is a large terrain actually it's an Industry Park which I'm going to upload to google earth since it's a pay-work I need to solve this in the correct way, so I'am asking for superior knowledge (Gaeius HELP ME!!) anyway I made this large texture in photoshop It looks fine in the preview (windows viewer) but when I import it to sketchup it becomes blurry and fuzzy, I've tried all kind of extensions (jpg, bmp), including the heavy ones (png and tiff) also I've resized the original into smaller sizes and nothing seems to happen. what am I doing wrong? maybe something directly from photoshop? help guys

Interesting.. I never noticed that button , I'm also using Google Map Maker to submit what I'm looking for however my submition status is in "pending" I guess because I'm new at map maker, let's wait and see

@jaxcoffee said:

I have another question though, Uploading the saved KMZ file I created in GE. Could you explain how that is done to connect it to the model in the 3D warehouse?

Thanks for asking this because I have the same question, yesterday I noticed that there is a GE app. to embed GE to websites and one part of the process ask to upload he kmz file. where do I upload this? and FTP a webserver?

Thanks.

P.S. I'm also reading what gaeius said He's full of knowledge

Hi everybody I have a problem, and I really hope you guys can help me in a few days I will have a meeting with the state council of hotels (I live in Mexico specifically in Villahermosa Tabasco) the main purpouse of the meeting is to invite all kind of hotels and resorts to appear in the 3D layer of GE, I have uploaded a few models, that at this moment are included in 3D layer my intention is to model their buildings, however I want to add a plus to my work and deliver not only a 3D model but also an informative tag/ballon about the resort or the specified building, I noticed that some Hotels around the world have these tags wich I don't know how to activate like the sample below. I did some research and discovered the Spreadsheet Mapper tool wich allows you to create ballons with info but soon I discovered that those ballons doesn't display in GE permanently only in your PC in a KML file.(or maybe I'm missing something :S)

My question and concern is how do I make permanent tags like the picture above with the icons displayed like restaurant and hotel, do I have to pay for it?. Is there any tutorial on how to make those tags? I want them permanently no in a KML file embeded on a website.

Please help. Thank you very much in advance.

P.S. Excuse my bad english

I'm doing some research and in valve's developer community says that you can actually import sketchup models into the SDK have anyone of you guys have done this before? I'm courious about this

@decipher said:

Why not just take a photo square with the wall and turn it into a texture?

I thought that too but for that stone texture you need a large pattern to make it look good