Thank for the info, Whaat.

Well, it fails with every model I've exported so far, but here's the most recent one.
With some models, there seems to be the change of the actual texture when exporting.
The other spheres surrounding the model are the atmosphere and cloud layer.
Thanks again, Whaat!

earth.skp

I have to agree with plot-paris. It doesn't kep it's genuine texture in Kerkythea, either.
But other than that, it works like a charm! Thank you!!!

I personally don't know of any, but you can just type in "camping" in Google Earth after going to Versailles .
You get a whole list of camping sites and hotels.

Whaat, you ROCK!

@utiler said:

this is doodling....and this guy is good at it!!!

what?

well... he is good at it.

Thanks, igor, but this is indeed a doodle. My mind was somewhere else when drawing this... when I finished, I looked and starred at it thinking "what the hell did I just draw?"

As for your doodle, let's see the one in math (they're always fun )

Here's my most recent doodle of my sister...
done in English class

She's gonna kill me

PS. Great stuff, everyone!

No rush, but when do you suspect it will be done cooking?

that looks great, IMO
So, I guess you're one of the people more than anyone anticipating Whaat's new UV mapping tool.

Thank YOU!!!
Can't wait!

@solo said:

@unknownuser said:

Any one seen the resemblance?

The one is a silly cartoon creation meant to make folk laugh, and the other is my Mr. Krabby.

Man, that is amazing...

Just what I was thinking.
14 million? Well, at least the electricity bill wont be that much.

That's true, although I didn't think Sketchup would ever have subsurf capabilities either, until Whaat proved me wrong. If they do ever make nurbs in SU, it might as well be a whole new software... I just wish someone could combine the ease of Sketchup with the capabilities of Rhino (but that's just my ignorant ideology ).
Getting a bit of topic here ; Nothing wrong with that .

@igor said:

the qualifications sheet that Jon posted is suprising to me, especialy sine most of those things apply to me.

No offense, but knowing, even mastering those qualifications isn't good enough. You have to be the best at what you do, and have many qualifications outside the box.
Pixar, being a company of about 600-900 only hires the best people in the world to work for them... if you're anything less than that, you're wasting their time. I'm not saying it isn't worth a try, though .

Like someone in the CG talk forum said, "you have to be as good at art (not just 3d) as Kobe is at 3 pointers".

@igor said:

and solo, SU cant make curves. i thought you would know that. like when you draw an arc, its simply made up of a series of perfectly strait lines arranged in a way so that, from a distance, you eye compounds them into a curve.

Well, that's all just basic geometry in every modeling program, but I agree that nurbs (if that's what you're referring to) would be extremely useful in Sketchup . I'm sure our community of incredibly talented ruby scripters will come up with something eventually .

Thank you SO much!!!

There's some really inspiring stuff here, bianhai
Hope to see more soon!

@remus said:

Jon, that could be...interestign. Howd you invisage it working?

I'm really just following what ely862me said ...
To be able to select a curved face and be able to follow it through a line, rather than just a flat plane.

Woah, woah, I'm not saying I was applying (or even thinking about it), I just was curious as to what their qualifications were, being the highly respected company that they are.
On a personal level, I think I'll never be good enough to join they're group of incredibly talented artists; I hope to prove myself wrong one day, though.
Besides, I'm only 16...