Posts made by HornOxx

hey - this tentacle-like "suction cup(?)"-thing is extraordinarily promising and superbly textured already now! - I'm curious to see what follows here

... or maybe the good old "Soap Skin Bubble" could be the right tool?
https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/c8d49537-51db-40a7-ac0e-474a244eb525/soap-skin-bubble

Rich!

Thanks Pnixia, that was exactly my dilemma - it was such a large number of different window components which constantly interfered with each other through their interaction of similar sub-components and I wanted to avoid clicking through all of them at all costs.
If the model had been smaller, I would have chosen your approach...

and the Oscar goes to:
Thanks"! this is exactly what I need

hi all - I have a question
is there any tool which can convert all or selected nested subcomponents, included in a component down into groups?
I need to create some variants of a big model - in it it gets too complicated despite "make unique" because the included subcomponents still keep their original instances information and therefore I am doing too many mistakes
( I have fallen into this component trap I set for myself so many times and have not yet attained the evolutionary stage of learning from my mistakes )

Hi, I'm not sure I understand your concern.
When you create your Plant-PNG as a component you can assign the behaviour "always point to camera" to this component. Then all placed components will always face directly towards your camera automatically, no matter from where you shoot...

thank you All and I appreciate your comments

Prima!

Hi All
Every now and then, often on Sundays, you get the idea for a little SkUp exercise. I put on the The Who album Tommy, as I often do, looked at the cover and thought: Yes, do something with it...
Together with SkUp 2017 Make and Enscape I used the two plug-ins "1001 Bit Tools" and "TrueBend", of course after some copy-paste and rotate and grouping first ...
Best and have a nice sunday

@hornoxx said:

hi - if I understand it correctly you have a 7z file...

I was probably a little too slow, but I'm glad you managed it

hi - if I understand it correctly you have a 7z file. This could also be a zip file. Your opened 7z window only shows you the content of this zipped file. What you have to do now is to unzip this 7z file so that you get access to these still zipped files.
The easiest way is to select the desired zipped files and drag them out of the 7z window to a desired location on your hard drive. These files are then unziped and ready for use as normal files.

Best & hope this helps?

and I was already wondering: when did this guy actually make his last spaceship?!?
ja - what a cool thing this something is - I'm already looking forward to it!

Besides all the other good solutions above, here is another very quick one:
Not native but with the plugin Cruviloft you can also achieve this desired geometry with ease.
With the same tool and with the same simple principle you can get even further than just to the speakers.
In the middle is the circle - around it is a small number of elypses which you move (up) to your desired positions. Then you let the plugin work which generates the desired shape with the preferred segmentations and smoothing by clicking on the circle and elypses plygons in the correct order - Done!
(Above a certain level of complexity it is advisable to consider plugins rather than torturing yourself with the native options - especially if you are dealing with organic shapes)

...or if only the geometric resulting shape is important to you, the "Follow Me" methods might also be helpful.

@l i am said:

...Understood I keep forgetting about SU screenshots...
me too
Thanks! and it is much more model content than I assumed - After all, the reflections or mirror images could also have come from an HDRI. Such an example of an overall work impression always helps if you/I want to estimate a total effort for a work of this kind.
Prima Anyway!

...yes, it´s great the way it is now! - if ok for you, out of interest I would like to see a screenshot of your actual model content because that way you always get the best impression between result and effort.

really great - and excellently textured!

@tuna1957 said:

...SubD the best tool for the job...
which is absolutely right! Prima!

It´s Perfect!