Thanks a lot for the tip, it's very useful indeed.

I wouldn't mind if it would all fit in 1 animation plugin. Improved camera motion and object animation included. But that would be dreaming

Thanks for the info, Zach! I installed the plugin and Tom's place streams just fine on FF3. I could also navigate to my place and see it just like in the standalone GE app (had no problems with any issue). This is my office however with some dedicated broadband connection. I1ll test it at home as well with my own broadband.

I can imagine it is a trip. I think I would need prozac instead of codeine to watch a complete Lars von Trier series. He's a great director, but kind of confronting to watch..

Forgotten King Kwistembiebel, Willed body wars action. This is Dr. Timothy Leary, no? Are you into the action that he wrote a book on the Jack bird Tarot? Yeah, baby, the Thoth to be specific... Bring that. A curved channel cheese gymnasium is my take. Brain spark sequence initiated... Assign brain waves... Count down under way... Bowels armed.... Discharge and launch... Vectoring on target... Spare no gas... Durant "put it into practice" Hapke

haha...thanks everyone! I'm just leaving work now. I'm taking the afternoon off and, no, it's not so I can work on more SketchUp plugins! Thanks for the support!

As a temporary work-around, added a prompt: [image: OI60_068.png] This will allow you to leave the unfold tool and resume when re-activated - but moving the geometry (including using Undo) will invalidate the history and the re-fold will fail. Download from http://bitbucket.org/jimfoltz/sketchup-unfold-tool/get/tip.zip

where can I get this plugin? (URL) kwistenbiebel, could you send me the model.skp or a link where i could download it? thanks

cd to the same dir as sketchup.exe. Run- regsvr32 ThumbsUp.dll It should say succeeded. If not, I seem to recall that since the dll is not 64-bit, it won't work in 64-bit Vista.

Anssi, That's a good remark. Actually PR renderings aren't always the best solution to present pre-design imho. Sometimes it focuses too much on things (materials) that weren't yet decided on or weren't thought through. Often it is better to make a paper scale model or a rendered one, just to show the mass. On the other hand, renderings can support the concept the architect is aiming for, even in an early stage. Also, I tend to believe that sometimes arch competitions are won based on imagery, and I must admit some render people can make a bad design 'look good'. So not always a good thing. Thanks for the comments.

Cool tips guys, always nice to learn new stuff.

@kwistenbiebel said: Thanks for the reply Remus. The thing is that when I apply subsmooth it generates a small group of just 4 triangles. The rest of the model doesn't get subdivided at all.... This happens on occasion when you are doing a subD with 'copy materials' turned on. SketchUp will throw an error if it tries to create a face that is excessively small. If you had the Ruby Console window turned on, you would see an error message about 'points not being co-planar'. One workaround is to group the geometry according to material and avoid using 'copy materials'. Then, just apply the material to the 'group', not the individual faces.

@unknownuser said: I just talked to them and the PRO pricing is $3500 not $12,000. Scott D*mn - that'll teach me trusting info I find on the net. Still, it better be very fast for that kind of money.

Very green ans useful to remove that attachment at the bottom, edit your post (btton in the top right of the post) then scroll down untill you get to the attachments bit, just under the main window. There should then be a button that says 'delete file' I look forward to more subsmoothed wonders!

@kwistenbiebel said: By the way, could someone please tell me what the hell I just modeled here? ...or at least point me the direction the rest of the chicken went? It looks to me like something you'd find in an cough adult boutique cough.

Most of the code is trivial, only soft selection would have to be coded from start since the smoove is closed-source. But I cant devote any time to this at the moment. We should spread the coders' group by not delivering on-demand. Once u start, the simplicity of ruby Api is addictive.

Stinkie, no problem. For me the new Mac Pro works like a charm under Bootcamp vista 64. (Actually I never boot Fisher Price Macos X ) I didn't have any hickups yet and Indigo runs smoothly. If you run XP64 or Vista64, Make sure to install the X64 version of Indigo. It is very stable and more speedy than the 32 bit in my opinion :better spreading of tasks over the different cores and better adressing of the RAM. (And it does a great job on Crysis as well )

@julius said: NEW! Target: Path allows you to select a target path.[/u] <---so basically you pay the 7$ only for this. you are right. but unfortunately this is exactly what I need. honestly. a camera-aim path gives you a great deal of control over the sequence. only difficulty is to properly synchronise the two paths to achieve the desired change of focus at the right time. after a lot of trial and error I found out, that you best create two cubic bezier curves (fredo6's bezier tool plugin) with exactly the same number of control points. thus you can exactly see which point of the camera-aim path is connected to a certain point on the camera path... flightpath2 askes you for a speed (like 14 m per second). a scene is created at every vertex of the camera path and the transition times are set individually to retain the desired speed. however, I find it more useful, if all the scene transition times are the same - thus the number of vertexes on the path defines the speed (many vertexes, slow speed; few vertexes, high speed). unfortunately you need another script for resetting all the transition times back to default. you can get this script along with flightpath2 with the "presentation bundle2" for 16$ it is a bit unnecessary, if you are comfortable enough with the free versions. but you definitely have total control over your animation.

Kwiesten I exactly double your search for animation There is a little skp called "advance" made by sarnam, that I do not find again, where a little 3-cylinder car goes on around a scene. It looks exactly how I would like to have a car running through a project to create animation. I tried to manage SUphysics to imitate... without success Marc

My default file is a blank slate - just greenish gray ground and blue sky, located in Knoxville.