what is biased rendering and unbiased rendering??..and andybot. awesome effect.

I did the coding sir as you said, im getting the following results.

im getting results like all the <> materials first, after that capital words sorted alphabetically,

then the [] type ones
then with small letters

will that be the order ? i mean SU is giving importance on brackets rather than letters

@jean lemire said:

The apparent jerkyness of a movement is irrelevant as long as the object being moved end up at the intended position. However, this jerkiness can be minimized if SU has less geometry to show. In other words, try to minimize the workload on the GPU (Graphic Processor) by using less demanding rendering mode like shadedinstead of shaded with textures, no shadows, no fancy edge styles, etc.

You can memorize rendering setups with scenes. For example, using Styles, create a minimalist rendering mode for work that you will use when modeling including moving and then create another mode that have all the bells and wistles. Create two scenes, each one using one of these styles. Disable, however, the camera position memorisation for these scenes to avoid loosing a crefully orbitted, panned and zoomed view.

Once that is done, you simply click on the minimalist scene tab to work. Your model will the respond fluidly. when ready to see it in its full glory, click on the other scene tab.

Note that with a relatively simple model, you shall not experience such jerkyness unless your graphic card is not very strong or you have disabled fast feedback or hardware acceleration or both in the Open GL preferences.

Thank you sire for the reply . i'm using the thinline mode with no colour..[purple and white faces mode] i have disabled only hardware acceleration because when i make a selection window, the monitor goes black with lots of coloured rectangle pieces scattered over it. i still have to find a graphic card driver update. i have a gigabyte brand motherboard, they still haven't released new updates

@tig said:

Open the Ruby Console and type this word + <enter>
getMaterials
It needs to be exactly as it's written [or Copy/Paste]
It should return a list of Materials in the model sorted by their names [separated by '|'] ?
It does that for me... and that's the code used inside Windowizer4 too.
Do you have the current getMaterials.rb [comes from Smustard.com with Windowizer4 ?] ?
If it doesn't work try this - Copy/Paste this code it should again be sorted...
matNames=[];Sketchup.active_model.materials.each{|e|matNames<<e.name};matNames.sort

i have one getmaterials and it has this text

def getMaterials
model=Sketchup.active_model
mats=model.materials
matNames=[]
[]
mats.each {|e| matNames.push(e.name)}
matList=matNames.join('|')
return matList
end

no version

your code [rubymatNames=[];Sketchup.a.......] works but do i need to type this everytime?? cant my plugin be edited by adding a line or two?

I don't know ruby..hence i don't know what you're saying

here are two screnshots

i'm using windowizer 4 . is there any way to arrange the materials listed in the glass materials in alphabetic order when the drop down menu comes?

often while moving heavy objects, the movement becomes jerky instead of smooth one. just like in photoshop and some other software, holding a ctrl or alt button smoothens the movement. is there anything like that in sketchup? The most precise movement i do by putting guide points and then moving.

@valerostudio said:

Align View - set Field of View to 1.

VRay cannot rendering ortho views and cannot render 2 pt perspectives... yet.

thanks ..is it the same way as when u click the magnifying glass and chnge the value from 35 degrees to 1?

i'm trying to render an elevation [orthographic view] of my building in vray with the physical camera on. but vray renders the front elevation in perspective. when i switch off the physical camera, the render turns out to be completely white..what should i do. ? im using the default settings for render

thanks a llllot thomthom..great plugin. saves a lot of time during accidents

yeeeeeeeeeaaa

@hellnbak said:

Not sure if it's the heaviest, but I'll bet this one weighs quite a bit

Sorry, it's very early and I'm not quite awake yet

very bad pj

someone told me that Rhino is better than sketchup as sketchup crashes when the model gets too heavy..has anyone had a 1gig or larger model..jst curious. what is the largest SU model size that you've heard of??

@alan fraser said:

They ought to sort themselves automatically, as they are created. If not, try clicking the (faint) arrow on the layer name tab a couple of times. This has pretty much the same effect as when you change the sort order in a Windows folder. It seems like layer 0 is immutable and always stays at the top, though

wow!! thanks

Is there any way to sort layers alphabetically like there's in CAD and vray 4 SU?

hey all newbies..watch these videos ...superawessome knowledge

@rspierenburg said:

Once again though, the modelling seems nice and clean and pretty intricate.

thanks. ...although i know there'sbeen a lotta triangulation of simple rectangle faces..making model untidy..vray ignores those bad lines that come

@andybot said:

are you on the chaosgroup website? If not, you should be - as you can read any of Fernando's posts and you will come away knowing more. You really should watch some of his tutorials, valerostudio has pointed them out already.

well im not there as im using vray demo. i was there earlier but since they changed their policy i have lost the right to access their forums. however i can read but can't post my queries. i'm there.

well actually i see a lot of images with absolutely no context..but still they look nice. e.g. this

http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=76567&mode=view

thanks u everyone. perpendicular face plugin is nice..and yeah sorry i need 2 learn a lot before asking qs . regarding locations Iv gotta cousin name Vinit in Chicago who's also into SU, we share questions so instead of creating 2 different ones, we thought to share an account, i'll confirm if he had used a proxy since i got no idea about the salt lake city thing. I'm live in Delhi. regarding vray i've seen chaosgroup and asgvis videos but still my renders are flat. can anyone suggest good source for lighting examples..as my renders look like oldschool 3dsmax default plastic renderings