TECHDAVE02, I noticed that you had no measurement details in your size box? i.e. ( " ) as in the default. Is there something about this that I should know?
PS and just by the way - Love Canada. My niece and her family live in Oakville and two nieces attended the University of Western Ontario, not too far away methinks. )
Posts made by KathrynG
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RE: Material way too small
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RE: Material way too small
Thank you gentlemen. I will try your suggestions. It is usually just something daft that I missed out on and then comes that eureka moment. So far, it is the only problem I have come up against in SU, that has me stumped and I seem unable to learn. But I never give up until I triumph so shall try it again - toute suite.
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Material way too small
What am I missing here please?
Another question please. I have looked at and read multiple tutorials on resizing the size (pattern) of a material, but in spite of following the instructions to the letter, nothing seems to happen. To clarify, this is what I am doing.- Select surface
- Select material (my own import since if I read correctly you cannot adjust the size of a pattern/material that comes with SU.)
- Paint Bucket - fill surface with chosen material, the pattern of which is visually waaaay too small.
- Select the swatch - double click. Break the width/height link. Enter my own dimensions.
- Close the edit window
- Reapply the swatch.
Result - Nothing, Narda, Zip, Rien?
Attached is a screen shot for better understanding. I have applied a random pattern (just something quick, tiled not seamless) but as you can see the pattern is much too small and is not properly constrained. I tried adjusting the width and the height so as to get the look of the material swatch, but the height would just jump back to the original dimension. The column is 10' high with a diameter of 2.5'
Thank you
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RE: Suggestions for Making Animation Look Better
Thanks Renderizer, I will check it out. Sadly I am not a math teacher, and if I could do math I could probably rule the world. I think I had been sent out on a errand somewhere when those chips were being installed prior to the storks delivery. I am seriously bad. More accurate to say a math moron, and without a calculator I would be reduced to laying out pebbles on the sidewalk to even know if I had received enough change from a store purchase.
That being said... it has not made anything that I do with the graphics world easy. I will take a deep breath and delve into this and have a look at the plugins mentioned. I have no problems with the 2D exports, they look wonderful. I will also do some Youtube searching (thank Heaven for Youtube!!!) and see if there are any videos posted that might be helpful.
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RE: Animation unusable
Thank you all,
Actually Gaieus, even with my regular 2D exports I have been choosing 600 rather than 300 ppi and the results are pretty good. Pity about the animation, and so will have to do as mentioned previously and create the animation in PS.
Attached is one such export. Remember I am still a newbie so don't be too hard on me please. Although criticism can only foster improvement.
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Animation unusable
Call me determined call me stubbon but I will NOT GIVE UP! AUUUUUGH!
Still consider myself a newbie after all this time, not enough of which to practice, but getting better. Using Sketchup now a lot more in the initial prep of my event drawings, but I tried to put together an animation this weekend and the result was just plain disastrous. So pixelated that it was totally unusable.
No offense, but what's the point of having the option to animate to have it look so terrible? I tried every possible setting and gave up frustrated. My only other option was to export the scenes as individual jpegs into Photoshop and then create a nice smooth crisp looking animation in there. But surely that should not be necessary? Any tips or ideas as to why the problem with the migraine causing animation please?
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RE: Saving a custom camera view
Tried it! Brilliant! No more mumbling under my breath. Thank you ever so much.
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RE: Saving a custom camera view
Thank you both very much. I shall give it a try immediately.
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Saving a custom camera view
Still a newbie three years later, sigh... Big question though please. My job is doing renders for an Event Production company. I do a base model in Sketchup to make sure that all the pieces they are using can fit in the space (not a floor plan) then once the designer says yes, that the draft looks good, then I export my Sketchup model as a 2D graphic to Photoshop, and then the fun begins! However... in the event industry either the client or the designer usually change their minds every 10 seconds, and which means having sometimes to go back into my model in Sketchup to make a couple of changes.
The problem I have is that having made these changes or additions, I want to export that revised model at exactly the same angle as the original 2D image that I exported, or things are not going to match up - obviously:)
Is there a way therefore to save a "custom" view in Sketchup, so that after the changes I can just apply that view before exporting my 2D graphic once again, and then later again, and on and on ad infinitum.
Will attach an example of the bare bones model that I export to Photoshop.Thank you - the answer to this would be another life saver.
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RE: Exporting to Photoshop
@d12dozr said:
@kathryng said:
Thank you and not that you are interested, but I might bore you down the road with my progress.
Not at all! I enjoy the little stories that make you (or other members, as the case may be) sound less like a screen name, and more like a human...and your little spiel up there made me crack a grin
You could make that quote your signature...just sayin'
Absolutely!
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RE: Exporting to Photoshop
@kathryng said:
@d12dozr said:
Kathryn, have you seen Go 2 School? They have tons of tutorials, free or paid, and offer local workshops as well as one-on-one training over the internet. I learned much of my basic SU knowledge from their YouTube channel
Truthfully - forgot about them. I was already signed up as I had registered for their Illustrator tutorials etc. Seems history is repeating itself re the live learning after my Illustrator class problem, LOL. Actually not funny - taking back the LOL. My SketchUp for Dummies also arrived this morning so hopefully it will work out. One of the reasons that I like the actual live learning though is that I am notoriously impatient when learning something new, and want to know it all now - right this moment. Age has taught me nothing along those lines, so I shall try to yank on the reins and take it step by step and remind myself that even in SketchUp Rome was not built in a day. (No idea where that one came from - must be one of my better, or cornier... days.)
Thank you and not that you are interested, but I might bore you down the road with my progress.
PS - OK - last bit of nonsense for the day and then I won't bother anyone anymore, but just thought... that would be a great slogan for SketchUp -
"Who Said Rome Could Not Be Built In A Day" or "With SketchUp Rome Could Have Been Built In A Day." Sorry, could not resist - over and out. -
RE: Exporting to Photoshop
@d12dozr said:
Kathryn, have you seen Go 2 School? They have tons of tutorials, free or paid, and offer local workshops as well as one-on-one training over the internet. I learned much of my basic SU knowledge from their YouTube channel
Truthfully - forgot about them. I was already signed up as I had registered for their Illustrator tutorials etc. Seems history is repeating itself re the live learning after my Illustrator class problem, LOL. Actually not funny - taking back the LOL. My SketchUp for Dummies also arrived this morning so hopefully it will work out. One of the reasons that I like the actual live learning though is that I am notoriously impatient when learning something new, and want to know it all now - right this moment. Age has taught me nothing along those lines, so I shall try to yank on the reins and take it step by step and remind myself that even in SketchUp Rome was not built in a day. (No idea where that one came from - must be one of my better, or cornier... days.)
Thank you and not that you are interested, but I might bore you down the road with my progress.
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RE: Exporting to Photoshop
@dave r said:
That doesn't answer my question.
Interesting image, though.
Kathryn, you used the "Report" function on my question and then answered it with the following:
"No typo - I am on a Mac and the option is there to set the export resolution and which I did to 300 ppi. The unchecking of the the anti-aliasing did work wonders though. I then tried a bit of my compositing again and my added images were definitely 100% better. I am going to post an event that I just did using SketchUp as my base and then adding the other "stuff" just as an FYI. Also - after months and months of searching I have finally found that Miami Dade College is offering some Community Edu classes in SketchUp. I am torn as while I have been looking for live training sometimes trial and error also has its benefits. Any thoughts on this? Thanks"
I deleted the report and paste your remarks so others can see them as well.
I agree with you that trial and error can have benefits but I think formal training--if it is good--can greatly shorten the learning curve. I have no idea of the quality of the instruction in that specific community education class but it probably wouldn't cost that much and might be worth the time. I community education SketchUp classes here and I guess my students are learning. They keep showing up and their work seems to be improving.
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This is where the frustration sets in. I registered for the class (only two offered in the near future) at MDC this Saturday, all excited with note book ready, Wacom tablet dutifully cased (never use a mouse if I can help it,) car (at $4.05 a gallon) gassed up, and this morning I check for the room number and they have cancelled the class due to all the usual suspects - not enough people interested. This is actually the second time this has happened to me with SketchUp. The first being some live training that they advertised on the Google website re SU and which was due to take place here in Miami last year. When I called the number provided to register however, they did not have a clue what I was talking about and had heard of no such training? Sigh...
Another problem that I find here in Miami is that so many of the teachers are second language English speakers and I had to drop an Illustrator class many years ago because I could not understand a word the teacher was saying. (He was supposed to be speaking in English.)
Apparently I am doomed and can only hope that the SketchUp For Dummies (that would be me ) that I ordered from Amazon and the Missing Manual along with whatever tutorials I can find will suffice. I am quite desperate to learn, I love learning, but there is no one to teach!
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RE: Exporting to Photoshop
@unknownuser said:
I think it has to be Photoshop Extended for this to work. No wonder this sounded like such a new idea to me.
Sorry - it is CS5 Extended
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RE: Exporting to Photoshop
@d12dozr said:
@unknownuser said:
@stilteg said:
Which version of photoshop are you using ? In CS5 you may directly import the 3D model !
Don't mean to hijack KathrynG's thread, but what file format do you use to go directly from SU to PS CS5?
DAE works
OK - then it must be a memory thing - I am so registering for those classes - feeling like a total dimwit here. See what I exported and then what Photoshop opened - yikes!
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RE: Exporting to Photoshop
@dave r said:
That doesn't answer my question.
Interesting image, though.
Kathryn, you used the "Report" function on my question and then answered it with the following:
"No typo - I am on a Mac and the option is there to set the export resolution and which I did to 300 ppi. The unchecking of the the anti-aliasing did work wonders though. I then tried a bit of my compositing again and my added images were definitely 100% better. I am going to post an event that I just did using SketchUp as my base and then adding the other "stuff" just as an FYI. Also - after months and months of searching I have finally found that Miami Dade College is offering some Community Edu classes in SketchUp. I am torn as while I have been looking for live training sometimes trial and error also has its benefits. Any thoughts on this? Thanks"
I deleted the report and paste your remarks so others can see them as well.
I agree with you that trial and error can have benefits but I think formal training--if it is good--can greatly shorten the learning curve. I have no idea of the quality of the instruction in that specific community education class but it probably wouldn't cost that much and might be worth the time. I community education SketchUp classes here and I guess my students are learning. They keep showing up and their work seems to be improving.
Yes - I think I will do it. $90 for 6 hours beginners and $90 for 6 hours intermediate. Even if some of it is things I already know it never hurts to have reinforcement. Sorry about the posting - I usually read other's posts and don't post too much myself so will do better the next time.
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RE: Exporting to Photoshop
@dave r said:
@kathryng said:
Thank you - actually I did export at 300 ppi...
Is this a typo? Or did you export at 3000 (three thousand) px?
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@unknownuser said:
Export the 2D image at a higher resolution with anti-alias off.
Then resize to required resolution in PS.
WOW! So much better with the anti-aliasing off!! Scratching my head on that one since anti-aliasing is for removing the jaggies, so how come turning it off in this scenario is obviously the way better choice is somewhat mysterious to me????
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RE: Exporting to Photoshop
@stilteg said:
Which version of photoshop are you using ? In CS5 you may directly import the 3D model !
CS5 yes, but the export does not always work, more often than not I get an error message from PS telling me that it "can't parse the file." That would be my salvation as there is a lot of additional work that I have to do in Photoshop and when the client says "Can we see it from the other side of the room?" I grit my teeth and with a smile say "Sure!" but then it's back to the drawing board with repositioning the angle in SketchUp back to PS and back to the compositing.