Posts made by jpalm32

Bonnie's blog may help.
She has a teaching site for SU.
http://3dvinci.blogspot.com/

How do you change the size of HDR or focus ?
Some seem too small or out of focus. Some are perfect, yet the same size.

Tried to follow some tuts from Twilight but not grasping how to adjust them to scene.

Nice, what kind of background did you use?

Nice. What did you use for background?
Photo, HDR?

@o2bwln said:

It's good to see the President rush to the aid of Big Bird cause he sure didn't rush to help the ambassador that got killed on his watch and last I remember PBS wasn't nearly as hostile when Obama's debt commission suggested cutting funding.

Thank you!

That's it!~ It downloads as a 3 color 3d or something .
Had it for a long time, not anything like it shows though.

Diito what dale said.
The mood is great!

Thanks for comments.
IKEA??
I need to do some work.

Very nice. Thanks.
Desk is great & useful!

@hellnbak said:

Looking good. Was this made from your imagination, or was it based on a particular ship?

Thanks.
Was a raw download of a very messy empty cabin from somwwhere.
Kept adding & fixing to learn Twilight!

Need to learn sphericals & Sky probes.
They seem too small, too close, too distorted.
If all else fails, I swear I'll read the manual.

Nice! What did you do with the textures?

Don't get me started on printing in SU!
I know that my rant angers "some people" but come on adjusting the size of your view???
I started on Autocad Dos and printed easier.
You need layout to print?
I know all the work arounds they suck.
Love SU but printing sucks!
So there.
I feel bettewr now!

Checked to see if auto save is on, it's off!
Thought was auto saving conflict.

@tig said:

HolePunch is mine and it should never produce anything like this...
Can you explain the exact steps that take you to this weirdness...

Well if I recall, I want to hide a element to get to someting else.
I Right click hide, do my work, go to drop down to unhide and message appears.
Or go to scene, any scene, and it's still hidden.
I KNOW it is NOT hidden in that scene, NOT on hidden layer.
Turn ON ALL layers, turn on hidden lines , check Outliner, check components...
It's gone!! What bothers me most is ALL undo are cleared also.
I will pay more attention when it happens again.
Believe me before I post I assume it's me doing something stupid!

Just to be clear this is is not happening all the time and can't duplicate it taking the exact steps, making it difficult to trouble shoot.
Thanks again for your help.

@tig said:

How are you 'hiding' the object?
Edit-Menu, Context-Menu, Shortcut-Key, Entity-Info etc... or some other obscure way ??
There should be no message about saving when you do this...

Uh! Think it was right click!
Tried that also,Show Hidden shows it's not around!
Checked for layer on/off but

"You should rarely need to use Hide/Layer on 'raw geometry' - it will lead to confusion and unexpected results, use Hide/Layers on groups/component-instances and leave you're the raw geometry on Layer0"
Noted! Will be more careful now.
Thanks all for reply!

Hole punch was the last.
Twilight update to full version, that's working great.
Come to think of it, it only happened since I have been doing larger renders.
No problem with large renders or large SU file in SU.
"Large by my standards not yours!"

Nice!
Too many "earth tones", that's what I get from my wife.
Struggle with inserting some life and color, I do.

Sorry, didn't see the last with pillows.

Wait for high tide?

Crazy thing.
I have very little problem with SU! This just started.
I hide a item and a message comes up "do want to save the drawing" , thinking I clicked something by error, I cancel and go to unhide and it's gone, deleted!
ALL undos are cleared!
The first time it happened I hid a item in a scene, changed to another scene that I KNOW that item was not hidden and voila gone! "All Scene items checked for all scenes!
It happened a couple time and so I thought I hit delete by mistake, was on a hidden layer, ... bla, bla.
Thinking it might be the size of file at first but happened again with smaller file.
Then won't happen again if I try to replicate the excact steps.
Strange.