Why would you want to use Python instead of Ruby? You can try using Python to talk to Javascript and then javascript talk to SketchUp is Ruby API. There is also a C API but I have never used it. Good luck!

You get "not responding" when SketchUp is doing a task which take a while to complete. It doesn't mean it has crashed - it just haven't finished yet. Sandbox Tools can take a loooong time to complete.

wow , thanks all of you I'm so busy last month and now I can go to read this thread again , thanks all of you Cheers,

Since you're talking about animation export, I did a small test yesterday with Pibuz's warehouse. I made this video to answer a question about post-production motion blur in another forum, but I got an interesting result in render times: [flash=640,505:1e3wj8kn]http://www.youtube.com/v/iNVqKh2k164[/flash:1e3wj8kn] The reason for this seemingly absurd result (Twilight being almost as fast as SketchUp) is the same you noticed: During animation export in SketchUp, CPU use was just 25%. This is because the Core i5 has 4 physical cores. Who knows, perhaps when desktop CPUs with 8 physical cores arrive, we'll see biased raytracers become faster than SketchUp's native renderer because of its lack of multi-core support. Please note that I'm not complaining about SketchUp; as has been already mentioned, it's a modeler, and has never been marketed as a render solution. BTW, in the Twilight test I used an HDR as the sole light source, that's why you don't see hard shadows. Of course, you can use both HDR and Sun at the same time in Twilight. The variation in frame height was my mistake, before you ask.

@huyvuvn said: Hi all, I have this problem , please help me to solve this. when I add many sections and scenes , when I hide the section in scene 1 , I click "update" in 'scene' docking-window, when I go to scene 3 , and I go to scene 1 again , the section .... auto unhide.... so that I can not export the animation.... (many scene can not hide the section... the scene not clearly) the link for download this file http://www.mediafire.com/?snjbmmg1jzj Many thanks, Not 100% sure of my understanding of your problem but try this and see if it helps. For the scene set the active section, turm off section plane view but leave section cut on. Update your scene and see if that helps @unknownuser said: @unknownuser said: @unknownuser said:

got it Jim, it was something to do with the path to the icons - the ruby console is great but not when you forget its existence, Thanks!

I just watched the video - thanks for updating the link - I loved the concept and your renders - as I'm deathly afraid of heights I doubt I'd get much sleep there but I bet the views would be great!

@remus said: massmaterialimporter It's unlikely to scale the textures correctly, though. p.s. You can find plugins very easily using the extensions index: http://www.sketchucation.com/extensions-index/ , a serach for 'material' brought up the above script in the first 10 results many thanks to remus

I like the way the palm trees are visible but the transparency allows them to give a sense of scale without distracting from the architecture.

wow nice renders The only thing that I feel needs changing is the catamaran. You wouldn't normally have a catamaran at sail that close to the shore/mooring/dock. If you pull the sails down it would give a little more realism. I'm probably being picky. Its just that the rest is perfect.

Thanks for a great tutorial. I had a problem in MAX changing to the VRAY renderer, but solved it. Cheers!

thanks all, this is my blog contains those works http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-S4ThS1Y0aLaGs93UkrHfOjnTwPQ-?cq=1&p=1788#comments

@gjenio said: @huyvuvn said: @tomislavm said: This is wonderful, is this all sketchup and how big is this model? yes , all made by sketchup 150Mb sketchup file. thanks. Not only Sketchup I guess... What about sun, reflections, water and rain animation... c´mon what ever else have you used? By the way, astonishing! How many hours did it take? hi, those post-processing effect I did in Ulead Studio some renderings by artlantis. It've taken us 3 weeks. I and 3 friends. cheersss,

@unknownuser said: if you explode it Yes but it's dangerous to manipulate TNT

Wow! foot in mouth Fooled me!

thanks for comments @rcossoli said: the two images are renders? The truth seems to be a first photo, are very well made textures, I congratulate you. VRay is not? yes , I use vray @marked001 said: pretty sure there are containers on formfonts.... not sure about 3dwarehouse...they're out there though! looks great though. no no , as I said already, this model I 've downloaded in 3dwarehouse of dandis yes, thanks dandis for his very good model

@chris fullmer said: This is really late, but the way to do it without purchasing or coding anything is like this: Set the model animation speed to .1 seconds. Export an animation with these settings: For the export type choose .jpg (or .png or whatever) Set the frame rate to 10 frames per second Then export it. It works out that 10 frames per second and we set the animation to be .1 seconds per scene. So each scene gets exported, one after the other. I hope that makes sense. You should also be bale to set the animation to 1 scene per second and then set 1 frame per second if your brain likes to think of it like that. Chris oh many thanks , it a good idea

thanks

Nice job using Sketchup...I also have a disagreement with the architectural design. Why would a country with such wealth of local building types decide to use house designs that are from middle-class America? The house designs have nothing to do with the history or local environment of Vietnam.