I have a problem with fog hiding the ground plane in animations. This does not happen in the skp model, but only when I export avi animation. The ground vanishes and all that shows is the sky color. And to make it even more confusing, this only happens sometimes!

Has anyone else come across this? Is there a workaround?

Ah yes, now I remember. I came across the same problem a couple years ago. Still not fixed? Well, it's on to Plan B...

No, it's a png image, already a short distance from the wall.

Hmmm, I am trying something new with my next movie: I'm using styles (brushstroke lines) for the SU setting. Looks great in theory, but something is very wrong.

I insert PNG images of people (transparent backgrounds). Big problem! The PNG images are transparent and the styled lines show through. Take a look at the two images and you'll see what I mean.

Is there a way to prevent lines from showing through the png images? Translucent people looks pretty weird!

      Joel

Well that was easy. Thanks!

My model has over 20 scenes and I want to add fog - with the same settings for each scene. I bring up the fog dialog box and adjust settings and save them, but that's only for one scene. Is there a way to do them all at once?

Thanks!!

Ok, lemme try again. The problem is intermittent, but this will show you what I mean.

EDGES.skp

I started to upload a model that shows the problem ... and the problem went away.

I'll be back!

Whenever I edit a group in my model, all the edges disappear. But I need them to show and changing the style does not help. What could this be? Any ideas how I can get them back?

I found the answer...

Run Regedit
Find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes.skb
and delete this entry, this don´t interfere with the .skp thumbs, so if you rename the .skb to .skp the thumbnail will appear normally.

The icons for SKB backup files on my computer are thumbnails of the model, so sometimes I click on them by mistake. They used to be generic designs that could not be confused for valid SKP model files. I don't know how or when they changed. Can anybody help me change them back?

I asked this question before, a couple years ago, but I don't remember the answer.

          - Joel

Yep! You got it, NVidia was repositioning my dialog windows. Thanks!! - Joel

Yes

No answers? Does that mean nobody except me has this problem?

My window positions are not saving. I never had this problem before but now it strikes every time I open SU.

I have two monitors and I used to keep all my option windows on the left and the main window on the right. Now they always open on top of each other, all on the right.

What happened? Do you have multiple monitors? How do you manage window positions?

Now my Layers window vanished and I can't find it! Anybody know about this???

There's a new movie in the Treasure Inside series ... Knowing

TreasureInside.net ... https://vimeo.com/40262334

SU makes a great tool for these very simple animations. Do these movies seem corny? Idealistic? Philosophical? I'm just using SU to talk about what I'm discovering.

One thing is definite:
I know that I'm not an empty container.
Inside of me is a gem of peace and beauty.

I tried asking the same question to Google SketchUp. Much to my surprise, they gave no answer and instead suggested that I ask here in Sketchucation and told me how to return to version 7.

"My guess is that some combination of graphics drivers or default monitor settings would help."

Also, the Update Scene dialog box won't stay where I put it. A serious problem when I'm working on an animation with 30 scenes!