@FlorinAp Don't manipulate the selection directly. Instead make it an array first... This will guard against crashes somewhat... selection_to_change = selection.to_a

I like how the second vid scrolls text that implying this is a relatively new phenomenon. I can hear the UFO or whatever conspiracy theorists gearing up to explain these, but they're called fallstreak or hole-punch clouds and they've been around as long as clouds have. Wikipedia has a nice entry if anyone's interested: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallstreak_hole

Watching those videos makes my palms sweat profusely.

Yes, it is a demo of gif animation. The demo in the animation, is of a karate style that has deep roots in jujitsu, hence the aikido like technique. The key to the technique is the timing to intercept the kick by the body while the kicking leg is still bent. Doing so while advancing, mutes the kick, and unbalances the kicker. It is then a simple matter to hook the attacking leg. Actually, the point of the demo was to show how important it is to walk naturally, while focusing your attention behind the attacker, and not on the position of the kick itself. The raw footage is from a video recorder filming at 30 fps. The animation plays back at 5 fps, providing the opportunity to take the technique apart. Until I animated the sequence, I had not noticed how the technique was executed. Martial arts training is such that you stumble through, eventually getting it by perseverance. Sometimes I think that its the stumbling that's important, not the technique itself.

No, I'm retired, but having just faced a hard drive melt down, I need incentive (any kind of award) to mess with my registry.

You do have to look at a monitor to see the model, a webcam (or other camera connected to a computer) is used to "see" a target that the model is projected up from, so whatever else the webcam sees will be in the image as well. Confusing maybe, but that is what it looks like.

Thanks.

@honoluludesktop said: Thanks Dan, will follow up here with progress. Hi all. I'm the user in question. So, I literally just discovered that the crashing seems occur only when I push the escape key to dismiss the splash screen. I have not had any problems in the past few minutes, so this may not be an issue at all with the plugin. It seems to happen even if I don't have the plugin installed. The reason I wasn't getting this after reinstalling is that SU required me to pick a template, so the escape key didn't work. How about that?

Sorry Dan, Guess this is over my head, but thanks anyway.

http://www.corbettreport.com/the-last-word-on-osama-bin-laden-video/ I really don't know him, bit he's just spoken my words from this topic... as well as the whole Pakistan. I bet it will be the next target. Look at the map.

OK, thanks. I must have done it wrong, when I tried to use entities.add_instance previously. I will work on it tomorrow.

Thanks, I will have to remember how to do that:)

Tig, Thanks.

As a good rule of thumb you should only use the begin..rescue..end construct for situations where if an error occurs you need to do something to prevent undesirable side effects. The most common example is with file handling, so say you open a file stream for reading and the program crashes in some way, it's important that you close the file even though it crashes. It is also considered good practice to only suppress the specific type of error that you're having trouble with, as suppressing all error can make debugging very difficult down the road. Also, you're testing using "arc_entities[0]!=nil" when you could test "!arc_entities.empty?" instead, which the code a bit more descriptive, although as already mentioned the .each method was designed for this sort of thing.

Yes, I get that too sometimes. It indeed seems to be the file size (rather than resolution size). Save it as jpg and it will become larger - then it displays. We should really close down one of these days and clean up this forum software. It has so many glitches!

Lets give the survivors a break, they "fear" for their lives. The contamination is getting worst. Who can say where this will go. How come there are NO "National/International charity rock concerts" to raise money in America? A local Hawaii TV station had a fund raiser, but where are those like "Elton", and others?

Thanks fossa, I looked his stuff up on the Internet and got some ideas, but I would have to build the texture I need from scratch, or buy his book (assuming that they are in there). One idea I got from looking at his images is that at the scale, and angle I require a view, that the use of a 2d pattern with a photo of shrub at a similar angle may work. If I place it 6" above the ground, I might even get a darkened edge. Don't know if I am getting paid enough for all that effort:-) But since when do I get paid enough>_<

There's a script called Dashed Lines at Smustard. I thought I purchased it, and was going to post an example but I don't see the plugin anywhere. Anyway, you might look into it and see if it would work for your situation. [edit] I knew I had dashedlines.rb! Here's an example of what it does. [image: JS8J_dashedlines.jpg]

@gisdude said: @drafter x said: I can tell your working with architectural drawings. I'm going to say what most will not, and that is that architects are some of the absolute worst when it comes to drawing things precisely in autocad drawings. I beg to differ - engineers are the absolute worst at snaps, trims, etc. Not to mention there redlines on drawings... Agreed. Although many Architects are just as guilty.