@peerman said: You can try changing the UV parameters in the texbitmap material. Changing the tile could do the trick. I usually add another diffuse layer (use a white color in transparency) and add the same bump map to the diffuse slot. This way I can alter or rotate the bump map in the sketchup window using the standard texture tools. Because of the white color in transparency it won't render. Oh, make sure the new diffuse layer is above the diffuse layer you want to render (be it a color or image). Hope this helps! Regards, Thanks, I will try that

Yep, I use that plugin as well. For trees.

OK, Rich, thanks!

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Ted, that was nice! I opened your animation visop and clicked render. I tried to understand how to save all the rendered images as film but couldn´t figure it out. When I choose "save image" it does just that - saving the last image that is. Is there a way to export these rendered images as a video?

@jim said: How about a randomized flat mesh? [attachment=1:arp8nxua]<!-- ia1 -->2015-10_351.png<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:arp8nxua] Yes, I´ve tried using using a mesh, but I just found a tutorial for creating water in Vray, thats the kind of photorealism I´m looking for. Thanks! [image: unclear.jpg]

@numerobis said: @larv said: Let´s say I would like to change the colour of everything inside this component of components without having to manually go into each individual one and make the change. Global Material Changer http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=96863#p96863 Oh man... I HAVE that plugin, been using it alot, but I never noticed the "ANY" (=all) selection. So thanks alot! perfect

For some move along something don't miss Move Along by Fredo6! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qqGC5hPugU

Ah, I see. I guess my lack of sleep has caught up with me.

The lines dont show in shaded mode because I unmarked lines in view mode. "Anyway I think the last picture is just an "optical" artifact. The profile edges on a curved shape should not be affected" When I exported the hidden line model to Illustrator the lines were cut just like in the screendump. "if you intersected faces as you said, you should see the edge where the top of the knob intersects the shaft all around" Yes, I did that and the top line showed, like intended.

A way to quickly cheat if the terrain clipper tool doesn't work, is to lift one surface off of the other by a half inch or so. At that distance and scale you shouldn't be able to see the edge either.

@pbacot said: I guess my experience is colored because I use my own CAD drawings and I don't generally have problems in accuracy. But I have seen where the accuracy of an import can be undetectably off--until it causes problems in working the model (closing faces etc.) later on. fwiw, when i realized the accuracy issue, it was when i was first learning rhino using a template with feet as the units and a tolerance of .001 unit (so, lower tolerance than sketchup's 1/1000th inch).. i brought it into sketchup and for a minute, thought sketchup was more accurate than rhino since everything wasn't exactly in place in sketchup (out of whack enough to get a 'don't panic- there's a problem.. should i fix it?' message.. which eventually led me to realize the tolerances in rhino were adjustable. but 1/1000th unit is a good to high tolerance setting for most situations so if the original cad app was drawn in feet, it's likely their tolerance wasn't set tighter than .001 feet.. so that's probably the most notable scenario to look out for. on the flipside, if the original modeler was using millimeters or centimeters at .001, you won't have any accuracy problems when bringing that into sketchup. [but even then, this is assuming the cad model went through some trimming/splitting/boolean operations in the original application which is when these tolerance issues will readily show up]

Solved it. This plugin is superb.

Nice! Thank you! This will come in handy for sure.

Thanks! Starting to understand how this works now.

Thanks Mac1, I´ve already solved the issue with adblock. This site became much slower now though for some reason.

@unknownuser said: Animating with a simple Sketchup animation and then pausing for a detailed rendered view of the building I prefer when this method is used to show off detail. I also like the break in the animation that it provides. I often get dizzy watching video that is perpetually moving. The break helps to punctuate, break the monotony and prepare the pallet for the next moving scene.

I would export a low res draft version before running a final, but no, there is no way to preview a VRay animation in SketchUp.