Whaat,
You mention that this ruby will re-import the UV mapped file back into SU via OBJ format. As SU has no obj import, does this mean that your plugin has it's own OBJ importer? I ask as the only OBJ importer ruby I've come across (objloader.rb) never seemed to work for me- verrrry buggy.
Or did I misunderstand- will your ruby convert to skp from Ultimate Unwrap 3D's native format?
Jackson
"Whale oil beef hooked." - Irish for "My goodness, that is surprising."
@unknownuser said:
I think one could save a lot of money by just printing the letters directly to the keys. . ..
ROMFLMAO
That might just catch on!
LOL, I just wonder how reliable it would in the long term.... and imagine how long it would take to update the drivers for 106 little graphic cards. 
... and if you've got kids and work from home for God's sake lock the office door! 
Disabling OS automatic updates is also a very good idea on render machines. Last thing you want is a "Automatic Updates Installed Succesfully. Restart Now?" message and a frozen render awaiting you in the morning.
Just stumbled upon this amazing script- in common with Fredoscale, I'm stunned by its usefulness and intuitiveness- what an excellent UI. These two scripts (and Subsmooth & Divide) have completely transformed SU from orthogonal GE plaything into an organic surface modeller sufficient for most architects' needs. This is a simply stunning ruby, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Second donation on it's way as soon as pay day arrives!
Where did that "We're not worthy" smiley go to?
That is an insane amount of geometry to try to deform using a ruby plugin. 
The obvious question would be, why don't you just delete two of the trusses, deform/twist the remaining one around the centre point and then rotate/copy it to create the other two?
Sorry to be the voice of dissent (for a change LOL) re: the "new" Bond films, but I was massively disappointed with Casino Royale. There was so much promise, but frankly IMO the director just delivered much of the same cheesy unrealistic stunts and mini-storylines as the worst of the Pierce Brosnan era films. Jumping 40 feet from one tower crane to another just to chase a guy, when you could have just stood on the ground and waited for him to come down? Then jumping off that tower crane onto a roof which is a drop of about 4 or 5 storeys totally uninjured? Being poisoned to the point of cardiac arrest, treating yourself with a defibrillator and then walking back into a card game 10 minutes later to resume play? The average A Team stunt (helicopter flies into mountain, explodes in fireball and bad guys still climb out alive) was more believable than much of the Casino Royale scenes. IMO Goldfinger and On Her Majesty's Secret Service have yet to be surpassed in terms of having all the elements of a "classic" Bond film, plus the realism required to truly engage the viewer. After those the best Bond films never made were the Bourne trilogy (or the first two at least)- the moment I saw the first one I knew this was what a 21st century Bond film should be, brutal, realistic, few explosions, few gadgets (is anyone impressed by Bond's gadgets anymore when school kids have GPS, cameras, world maps and email in their phones?).
Ironically while I agree the new theme is a bit of a mess, I actually kind of like it LOL. Jack White's style is too affected, but I quite like the roughness of the new track. Perhaps if it have been performed by other artists and better produced it would have hit the spot.
This is the SCF corner bar, people can (and do) discuss whatever they want here.
Re: forum ettiquette, why are you posting in a thread that's over a year old? 
Eric, I'm so disappointed- I opened this thread expecting to see some tv footage of you singing. Knowing you're a musical type I thought we were in for a treat!
Better post ruby requests in the Ruby discussions forum (add [Request] to the topic title so people know you're requesting something rather than offering).
Beautiful landscape photos, but IMO it's getting a little ridiculous how much HDRI dominates landscape photography. There are good arguments for it: that it requires some fakery to attempt to represent the stunningness of the real world in a 2D LDR image (and after all, all photography is "fake"), but I've gone off landscape images which are too obviously heavily tone mapped/Photoshopped HDRI composites. I wonder if it's here to stay or if it'll look dated in a few years?
I like the shopping trolley/Aberdeen Harbour one best, the photographer really managed to make an otherwise dubious subject absolutely beautiful. It reminds me (the subject, not the talent!) of one I took many years ago with my second-hand Sigma 35mm SLR.
@d12dozr said:
Speaking of vaccines, medicine, and religion...
Pork byproduct in swine flu vaccine
...FOX 35 found that the swine flu mist and injectable vaccine both contain something called hydrolyzed porcine gelatin. The Centers for Disease Control confirms that the ingredient is a pork by-product used to promote temperature stability… and allow for refrigerated storage...
The whole article is here: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/heal ... ts_4065304
Ironic or what? I want nothing to do with that vaccine...
If you don't want animal "by-products" in your system you'll have to give up more than vaccines: jam, jelly, marshmallows, wine, beer, chewing gum, cheese, skittles (actually, pretty much any red candy)...
BTW, AFAIK all modern mouse scroll wheels have only 2 moving parts- the wheel itself and the middle mouse button switch beneath it which are almost indestructable in normal use (ok, I know the springs move as well). The scroll action is measured by a laser which penetrates a circular grill which is an integral part of the wheel, so if your middle mouse button is working fine and it's only the scroll function which is acting funny it sounds like there's dirt in the grille. Try opening the mouse up and give the grille a good clean with a dry toothbrush.
I've had a few mice die on me, but like the others I've never had a problem with the mouse wheel.
I'm really fussy about mice- I hate the battery hassle and weight of wireless mice and I've found many mice are too big, uncomfortable (ironically usually the "ergonomic" ones) and have horrible sensitivity- impossible to tune correctly, the steps in the drivers are too big so it's either over-sensitive or sluggish. Annoyingly most shops will not give refunds once the packaging is opened unless you can show it is defective, so I've got 3 mice at the back of a drawer somewhere which I bought, tried, and just hated too much to use (one was a cordless mouse which wouldn't work with rechargeable batteries! 
)
My all-time-favourite is the Logitech NX50 Notebook 3-button Mouse, it's small, very light, comfortable, has IMO perfect sensitivity, never needs batteries and is about the cheapest mouse Logitech make. I've even tried much more expensive Logitech and MS mice (my office bought them), but their sensitivity was awful no matter how much I adjusted it. Tip for NX50 users- despite the main selling point of this model being that you can wrap the cord around the mouse- don't. After a couple of years my NX50 stopped working and I traced it down to a damaged cord- I think it had eventually failed where it comes out of the mouse body as it was being wound in the same direction each time so the copper wire filaments eventually fractured inside the insulation. The cord isn't long anyway (you can just buy a USB extension for desktop use), so it doesn't get tangled- I just throw it in my laptop bag and go. I'm on my second NX50 now and it's been going strong for 3 years, minimum 8 hours a day, 5-6 days a week. One of these days I'm going to buy a couple of backups of this model as I'm paranoid that they'll eventually replace it and I don't want another drawer full of bought, tried and rejected mice.
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=logitech+notebook+mouse&oe=UTF-8&cid=11273602879160218900#p
OK, after much head-scratching and even more Wikipedia-ing they are:
John Rouse Merriott Chard
Gonville Bromhead
Alfred Henry Hook
James Henry Reynolds
All were awarded the VC for their actions in the Zulu War of 1879 and featured in the classic Michael Caine film "Zulu".
Although I'm aware of the film I've never actually seen it, so I must confess that the names meant absolutely nothing to me. Extra points please!
Incredible.