Wonderful! I've been using POVray for years and your previously released plugin since I started with SU. I will certainly give this new one a go! Thanks so much!
Cheers!
Wonderful! I've been using POVray for years and your previously released plugin since I started with SU. I will certainly give this new one a go! Thanks so much!
Cheers!
Don't care really, probably the cheapest method. Worm food or ashes, when you're dead, you don't have much to say about it...
Cheers.
@chris fullmer said:
Probably, what file type does anim8or accept?
.3ds, .lwo and .obj if I remember correctly, along with it's own .an8(?) format. Probably the easiest way is to export .obj from SU and import into anim8or...
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Three young couples had been attending a small local church when it came to the attention of the pastor that rumors of their somewhat aberrant sexual behavior was making others in the congregation uneasy. Not wanting to lose any of his faithful flock, the man of the cloth summoned the three couples into his chambers after a service one Sunday to discuss the matter and render a suitable solution.
He told them this; that if they could abstain from their "creative" sexual appetites for three weeks, they would be welcomed back to the church and the rumors would be forgotten. Otherwise, if they failed, they would be asked not to return. The three couples agreed and promised to see the pastor again in three weeks.
After 21 days, the couples returned to the church and as an example to the rest of the congregation, the pastor asked each couple to stand before God and give their testimony.
The pastor asked the first couple, "Have you been faithful to your promise and abstained from your sexual weaknesses"?
The wife answered, "Yes. The first week was easy, the second week was easy too. The third week we felt tempted but faith in Our Lord carried us through."
The smiling pastor shook both their hands and announced they would be accepted back into the congregation, their past now forgiven and forgotten.
The pastor turned to the second couple, and asked the same question, had they refrained and been faithful to their promise to abstain?
Again, it was the wife who answered. Yes, they had. "The first week was fairly easy," she said, "the second was harder and in the third they almost failed but the Lord intervened and saved them."
The pastor, beaming and smiling from ear to ear as his plan was working perfectly, again shook the hands of the second couple and welcomed them back into the congregation.
So now, the exuberant pastor turned to the third couple and asked them if they too had been successful in keeping their promise.
"Well," started the wife, avoiding the pastors gaze, "the first week was really, really hard. The second, faith in our Lord carried us through. But in the third week, I dropped a can of beans on the floor and as I bent over to pick it up, my husband nailed me right there."
"Oh", I'm very sorry said the crestfallen pastor, "but I can't invite you back into this church."
"That's ok," said the husband, "we can't go back in that supermarket either."
@unknownuser said:
This is why i have to agree and hope that this attempt will at the least get us started in the right direction. I don't necessarily believe in all that is included - but something has to change.
That's pretty much how I feel as well. I don't think we'll get a "balanced" version of the law without bi-partisan involvement. That's why our government was setup the way it is...
But, until both parties can put aside all this bickering and foolishness (read the any of the news feeds any day about the latest political fiascoes) I don't see it happening. "Party member" has become more important it seems than "citizen"...
People need to quit blaming President Obama for everything (he didn't write the health care law but some people seem to think he's entirely to blame for it) and start re-educating themselves as to how our government really works. It's a lot more resilient than folks think.
Really, we survived 8 years of Bush and Cheney didn't we?
Cheers.
[EDIT] I've been reading a number of news articles concerning the Health Care bill. It seems to me that now that it's been enacted into law, there has been a drop in the vitriol and nay-saying. People may be starting to understand that it's a framework to be built on and modified, not a "do all, be all" solution.
There's hope for us yet...
Back to the health care bill, let me share this with you...
A couple of weeks ago, I went to an ER in California for a sudden onset of dizziness. I was in the ER for about 6 hours, almost totally under the watch and care of the ER nursing staff. It wasn't a busy ER and while I was there, only one other person was admitted.
They took blood, put a heart monitor on me, and pretty much just checked on me periodically. The physician on duty spend a total of maybe 5 minutes with me and informed me I had a viral infection in my inner ear after the blood workup was done.
I didn't even get a prescription for an antibiotic to fight the infection.
The bill: $11,900. The physicians bill, separate from the ER: $850.00
With this kind of "robbery" how can anything be worse?
@unknownuser said:
funny thing about he capitalism comments though, shouldn't the government have let AIG et al fail? instead of wasting trillions into that hole?
IMO, under normal circumstances, I'd would have agreed. But the recession, coupled with the huge number of areas in which AIG, Citi, BoA, etc had a fiscal "presence" made it almost impossible to let them fail. GM was the same way. Allowing them to tank would have only worsened the recession by having a "rippling" negative effect on the numerous secondary industries that supply components, and transportation of those components for GM assembly for instance.
For "wasting trillions", personally, I don't think so. The economy is showing good signs of recovering (much earlier than I thought it would) and that money will be recovered eventually. Just today I read the Fed is going to be offering up it's 27% stake in Citi back onto the market this year. The project recoup will be around 8b$ or so.
Your question does make a good a good argument for more Federal oversight...
If the Fed had been watching AIG and the others, Citi, BOA, etc more closely, the situation may have never arisen in the first place. Instead, the "free market, hands off" attitude of the Bush Administration, along with their seemingly total preoccupation with the "War on Terror", allowed these financial giants to make some pretty risky decisions.
Couple that with Americans who thought they should own 4000 sq. ft. homes at ridiculously low sub-primes and you have the recipe for failure... The American Dream gone disastrously wrong...
@unknownuser said:
I just don't understand why everything has to come at the cost of liberty.
Adam, in what ways have your liberties been compromised?
Cheers.
@unknownuser said:
Based on the way i've seen our (the US) government work, this system will fail, and fail hard. and the reasons all come down to one word: greed.
And this differs from the kind of greed we see by having health care managed in the private sector by insurance companies? Those same insurance companies who are owned by stock holders who expect to see PROFIT from their investments?
A basic tenet of capitalism: Provide the least amount of service for the maximum amount of profit.
I wouldn't worry too much. We've had Social Security since 1935, and other than Bush's idea to place IT in the hands of the private business sector during his less than stellar terms in office, it's survived. Not only that, but because this is such a hot issue, you can bet your bottom dollar that it'll be watch-dogged by everyone from the ACLU to the average Joe Citizen at Zander's Home Cookin' and Taxidermy Shop in rural <where ever>...
Cheers.
The jar on it's side would appear a bit more convincing if you added a "spill" on the table top, as if it had just been knocked over.
Very nice work otherwise!
Cheers.
Frankly, I'm glad to see it get to this point. There are still a number of problems, and those problems will need to be worked out, but it's doable... Perhaps we'll see some of the military budget being wasted in Irag transferred to this program (after our pull out) to help the citizens who generate the revenues that fuel the "war machine" in the first place...
I'm more chagrined about the GOP and their "we're not going to co-operate on further legislation this year" foolishness. We have a LOT of things that still need to be fixed in this country, like illegal immigration for example, and this kind of rhetoric is just plain stupid. Akin to "I'm taking my ball and going home" immaturity that I would expect from a spoiled child.
A prime example of how they (the GOP) consider the "party" more important than the populace.
Next November will be interesting...
Cheers.
DelftShip is a wonderful tool. I've been using it for the last few years to recreate hull data for turn of the century sailing canoes. These small craft were very popular in from about 1870 to 1900 but much of the original construction information has faded into history. Being able to import both lofting data and line drawings, (when I can either find them) makes Delftship very flexible.
I've also used Delftship to create a prototype design for a streamlined single wheel trailer to be pulled behind my '94 BMW R1100 RS sport bike...
Cheers!
BTW, as far as "perfect", I say don't sweat it. No one is going to get out a ruler and protractor to check your work! Close enough is good enough IMO.
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An amazing piece of work. A wonderful example of what can be achieved with research, diligence and just plain "work a bit at it every day" kind of work. Very nice!
Cheers!
I'm from Alaska, but "transplanted" to Idaho. In December of 1990 I was sitting in a bar in Haines, waiting for the Inland Ferry, when I struck up a conversation with another guy there. One beer led to another, and soon he told this joke. It's a bit long, but has been one of my favorites since the telling...
On a small pond in Alaska lived a flock of ducks. One fine spring, the flock had a number of ducklings born to them. Through the rest of the spring, and into summer, the elder ducks taught the ducklings the ways of duckdom, swimming, foraging for food, flying and most importantly, how to be part of the duck community.
Well, the seasons passed until one morning, a frost crept into the little valley where the ducks lived on their pond. The eldest duck announced that winter was approaching, they would all have to migrate south and to make preparations. So the flock began to get ready to go...
All except for one obstinate little duckling. Ever since he had been hatched, he had been a disciplinary problem and a rebel to the rest of the flock. He was always contrary and refused to listen to the elder ducks, always preferring to do things the way he say fit. Soon, the flock pretty much got tired of his attitude and learned to leave him to his own ways.
Well, it just so happened that after the frost, an Indian Summer settled over the valley. It warmed up and there was a late hatching of gnats and bugs in abundance. The eldest and wisest duck however, knew that this was only a brief reprieve from the onset of winter, and commanded the flock to take wing and fly to warmer climes in the south.
However, the "problem child" duckling refused to go. He pointed out there was plenty of food, the weather was exceptionally pleasant and he was not going to go with the rest of the flock, preferring to stay right where he was. The elder duck shook his head, bid the obstinate little duck "Hasta la vista" and the rest of the flock took wing, leaving the rebel alone on the pond.
Things went quite well for the next week. The weather stayed balmy, there seemed to be no end to the number of bugs for food, and the little duck was quite content...
Until the morning he woke up and found his butt frozen to the surface of the pond. A hard freeze had set in overnight, instantly transforming the comfortable little pond into an frozen trap. The insects were all dead and there was nary a thing to eat. The little duck shivered in the cold and he worked furiously to free himself from the icy grip of the pond.
Soon, his efforts were rewarded and he was free. He thought about the rest of the flock now winging their way south to warmth and food. Even though he had never made the migration, he knew instinctively where they were headed and he launched himself from the pond in pursuit.
Folks, it's a long ways across Canada to the southern climes where ducks and geese find comfortable surroundings. The little duck flew night and day, through fogs, snow and freezing weather, pausing only now and then to rest briefly and scrounge up something to eat. Most of the ponds and lakes on his route were already freezing over and there was scant enough to forage for food.
Then late one evening, just before sunset, the little duck found himself over Idaho, exhausted, cold and hungry. As he passed over a dairy, the last of his strength gave out and he fell out of the air, straight into a large, fresh cow pie. The impact knocked him unconscious and he lay in the cow pie over night.
The next morning, with the sun rising on a splendid clear sky, the little duck woke up, looked around and surveyed his predicament. He found himself buried up to his neck in a warm cow pie! There were a few insects buzzing around him within his reach and he snapped them up greedily. The cow pie had a few seeds embedded in it so he ate those too. Soon, he was full and warm and well, the most comfortable that he had been in days. He was so happy he began to sing rather loudly...
About that time, along the fence came the barnyard cat, a big burly feline. He heard the little duck singing and walked along the fence over to the stock yard to check out the source of the raucous melody. He soon found the young duckling and addressed him from the fence.
"Oh ho!" said the cat, "I see you're pretty chipper this morning!"
"Why yes" replied the duck, "I'm warm, full of food and it's a beautiful day!" The duckling had never encountered a cat before and spoke to him in the most casual and trusting manner.
"Ah, but you have one problem", noticed the cat, "You're stuck up to your neck in cow crap. How will you ever get out?"
The little duck hadn't thought about this and upon hearing the cat's observation, struggled mightily to free himself. However, during the night the cow pie had cooled and solidified around him, trapping him within. Soon, the little duck grew tired and ceased his efforts to free himself.
The cat watched the little duck and he struggled and then failed to free himself. He said, "You know, I'm fairly strong and I can get you out of there pretty easily if you wish."
"Oh yes, please do! cried the little duck, "I need to get going and catchup to my flock! Thank you friend!"
So the barnyard cat jumped off the fence, strolled over to where the little duck was imprisoned in the cow pie, plucked him out and ate him on the spot.
The moral of the story: Even when you're in deep sht, you're not necessarily in trouble, and those that would get you out of deep sht aren't necessarily your friends.
I've been reading this thread with some interest. A number of problems with WINE can be solved by either tweaking the applications in the WINE configuration dialog and/or using winetricks: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks in install a few native Windows .dll and .ocx files.
Currently, I've got SU7.1, SketchyPhysics 3RC1, Twilight Renderer, SU2POV, POVRAY 3.62, SU2KT, Kerthythea 2008 and a whole bunch of plugins working just fine under Xubuntu 9.10 and WINE 1.1.39.
The only "nagging" issue I have is the "Inspector" and "Control" windows in SP3 aren't displaying the joint information and I'm pretty sure it's a missing .dll. The physics still seem to work correctly on rigged models I've tested.
What particular plugins are you guys having issues with?
Cheers.
Ok, first thing I'd do is do a clean install using 9.10 and start over. There were a LOT of improvements in 9.10 over 9.04 that solved SU compatibility issues... Including video driver updates, etc. Don't do an "upgrade" as it tends to leave some of the old libs and files around, messing things up. Ask me how I know...
Your WINE is the latest I'm aware of. It "should" load the ia32 libs for you by default, but you can always check using Synaptic. You HAVE to have the ia32 libs because even though you're using WINE, it relies on some 32-bit libs to interact with the LINUX environment. About the only thing I've loaded as "extras" in WINE using winetricks were a few fonts and a couple of MS runtime libs.
FWIW, I run Xubuntu 9.10 64-bit with an Intel driver, SU 7.1, Twilight Renderer and SketchyPhysics all under WINE 1.1.39 without any issues at all so I know you should be able to as well...
Cheers.
winetricks allows you to install Windows components into the WINE environment in a simple, straightforward manner...
There are a few other programs like Mozilla, but SketchUp isn't there.
What version of Ubuntu and WINE are you running?
What version of Ubuntu are you running?
What version of Wine is installed?
If you have a 64-bit system, be sure to install the ia32 libs using Synaptic.
CORRECTION: WINE should install the ia32 libs for you by default.
Just as an aside, I'd use winetricks over winedoors as the former has been kept up to date...
Cheers.
I sometimes wondered if Cameron would surpass his success with his other big films like The Abyss and Titanic...
Avatar, for me at least, ranks right up there with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. In LOTR I've always immersed in the world of Middle Earth, but Avatar takes it to the next level on Pandora.
Cheers.