@tig said:
EWH == Trimble's Extension-WareHouse [can be linked off the SketchUp menu...]
An STL file is a 3d-geometry data-format that can be imported into SketchUp and will then make a 3d model.
The one I linked to is pretty big, so it'll take ages to import - so I suggest have dinner and go for a walk... and come back !
ThruPaint might help with mapping the texture image onto the surface.
I'll PM you the jpgs...
Big thanks! I will try this later today 
@tig said:
The STL file can be imported using the STL importer available from the EWH.
I can send you the image-maps to paint it - you need might need to use a texture projection method, or say one of Fredo's tools ?
Yes, please do!
What is EWH?
Yes, I have Fredo Thru Paint if this STL is some kind of texture or material
TIG, now I managed to select different bump maps! WAY COOL! Thanks! 
This was on a random test modell, though, not a globe
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:14070
Downloaded it but it didnĀ“t contain any file I can open with SU. This is sort of the reason why I donĀ“t want to buy stuff from the webb. All of a sudden the file I buy contains things I donĀ“t know how to open and operate.
http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/max-earth-relief-sea-oceans/487744
I didnĀ“t think Sketchup could import .obj-files? Its not on the import list in my SU anyway. Can I open this file if I buy it?
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:14070
That was too unrealistic I think. The topography cant be correct. I mean, itĀ“s WAY off, if I know my topography right (which maybe I donĀ“t)
Just import the STL ?
But it's > 30Mb !
I have the separate mapped surface texture and bump-map ?
Sorry, I donĀ“t know what STL is and mapped surfaces and bump maps is above my knowledge IĀ“m afraid 
@massimo said:
Have you already looked here for example?
Yes, IĀ“ve checked out turbosquid, but I couldnĀ“t really find the kind of globe I need. As far as I could tell anyway. The model I attached in my first post is sort of what I want.
IĀ“d also like to be able to communicate with the guy selling it to me.
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone here is interested in modelling a world globe for payment? Or have a globe avaliable that theyĀ“re willing to sell. It must work in Sketchup with ease and be renderable with Vray.
Obviously Sketchup Warehouse quality is not what IĀ“m looking for, but neither is one of those huge exact modells avaliable for 2000 USD.
I understand this could be modelled in a hundered different ways. I need one that...
1. ...is high res
2. ...I can change the colour of the water and land (the water as one object/component/group and the land as another, not divided with land borders and different countries)
3. ...has good topography or great terrain (or both of course)
(If someone has a great globe that doesnĀ“t match the exact criteria, please let me look at it, it might do just fine)
Something similar to this would be nice (again, if it looks good and works for me, itĀ“s good enough. Nothing has to be EXACT):
One criticism of the above example is that itĀ“s not the best way to present the data, but they probably liked the design idea too much to drop it. It looks really neat though, with the profesional appearance still intact. The two can be hard to balance sometimes.
@baz said:
That's really really good.
Please tell which bits are pure SU?PS: How are you with C&C's?
They might not have done the modellling in SU. It can be done though, in many different ways. I would do the modelling in SU and then import to Illustrator. Again, there are multiple ways of going about it.
@baz said:
That's really really good.
How are you with C&C's?
Creative Commons? I havenĀ“t had any use of it yet.
@phillip h said:
Ah! Print media. that's even better.
..as well as the webb. Primarly the webb these days.
One example (NY Times) of a gazillion ways to work with infographics:
@baz said:
Oh well, never mind.
BTW, I trained as a graphic designer in the late 70s, in Britain a graphic designer was someone who could communicate visually. I suppose with infographics you have to be part designer, part accountant...
PS: googled graphic news designer, no hits, must be very new. mieawww
I get 228 milion results..
@baz said:
Oh well, never mind.
BTW, I trained as a graphic designer in the late 70s, in Britain a graphic designer was someone who could communicate visually. I suppose with infographics you have to be part designer, part accountant...
A graphic news designer is usually employed by a newspaper, doing primarly infographics. A graphic designer could be anything.
Accounting? Nope thereĀ“s nothing of that kind involved in my work, luckily
@baz said:
@larv said:
Fast and cheap works well if the model is what I need for a specific purpose.
Well now you talkin... late here, but quickly. Easy to build a fast/cheap model if the client has a clear idea of how it will be seen. Basically, the closer the model, the more detail, the more time etc. But if a corner of a couch is all that is seen, still cheap and fast cos its only that bit has to be modeled.
ciao
I donĀ“t work with models for clients, I do infographics. Models can be part of a job, but not in the way you probably think. 3D model designer and and graphic news designer are two different jobs.
@rich o brien said:
You need to displace a subdivided mesh so the image can act as the displacement map to raise and lower the mesh.
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Here's an example with only a single area acting as a displacement map. The mesh is at 0.7 million vertices to get anything reasonable for presenting.
I would think using this technique on the full resolution would require you traveling to CERN and making use of the Hadron Collider to run SU.
I have an Alienware computer, I got this.
@baz said:
@larv said:
but I might need just about anything and most of the time I need it fast.
Well, you know what they say: You might want fast and cheap and good, but you can only chose two.
I see from your profile you are in education... pray tell your use of SU for this porpoise?
(Just fishing
Education? No, IĀ“m a graphic news designer. I mustĀ“ve marked something random when registering to this forum. Perhaps I ment that IĀ“m here for education, I donĀ“t know, I donĀ“t remember.
Fast and cheap works well if the model is what I need for a specific purpose. 
@baz said:
@larv said:
@baz said:
Google Warehouse?
Well, apart from the that was what I ment. Seems like they use the "free models" to fish for visitors to buy models.
Well modeling takes time and time costs.
But are you after something specific? You could always ask here. I have in the past and been amazed at the generosity of the people on this forum. ( In one case, in my uber noobie days, a member actually modeled a request for me. (Bless you Gully Foyle).
Yes I understand it takes time, but since there are a couple of free models in the 3d warehouse I thought perhaps there was some similar site.
Thanks for the offer, that was nice, but I might need just about anything and most of the time I need it fast.