I recently got a mighty mouse to use for sketchup instead of the default magic mouse (without pan etc) and it works fine for panning but then I noticed a problem when i opened a file with scenes in it. When you middle click (which I use for orbitting) and scroll skp starts scrolling through the scenes and i lose my place and focus. This isn't a problem with a normal mouse as the scroll is not usually so sensitive but with the mighty mouse it is near impossible to middle button click and not scroll sometimes.

Does anyone have a work around for this? perhaps somehow blocking the middle click and scroll command for going to a new scene?

thanks for the quick reply thomthom, I had played around with the exposure and it fixed it a bit but it is still looking quite bad. Did you have any other suggestions or settings I could try?

is it possible su8 could be worse from a usability / consistency level?

I find suddenly my toolbar positions are much more unstable, always changing and the new 'restore toolbar positions' is great EXCEPT when you have added a new toolbar or changed anything in the display at all and then when you try and restore default settings the thing thinks for about a minute and does nothing.

I am also crashing much more than I ever did with SU7. to the point where now opening a file (which takes a very long time) sometimes crashes su8. I am not saying my experience is the general for SU users but it does seem a bit strange that updating the software causes more problems than before. I am thinking of switching back to SU7 as I cant see any real advantage in staying with a software when it is currently so volatile and plus the updates for SU8 from an architecture perspective (minus what can already be achieved easily with rubies) where almost non-existent.

Hello All,

Just having trouble with external / internal settings for a render I am trying to do. The image is coming out too dark, it is a problem that the shots are kind of internal and external. I was wondering if someone might have some pre-loaded visopts (or skp files ready to go with the .visopt settings) that I could tweak a bit for internal and external shots (with or without sun is fine) for 1.48 specifically.

My render and the scene are attached, as you can see it comes out really dark (scene 5 is roughly the render scene). It is kind of ok because I can fix it up in photoshop and get results like the one attached but it would be great to have a better first run - any ideas?

render.rar

I am sure there is a better place for this but why did they bother?

I have been using it for the past four days and I notice no difference whatsoever, those solids tools are a joke - oscoolean did that just fine, if it worked for solids and non-solids that'd be damn good - like an express intersect with model that gets rid of the stuff for you.

Layout + google earth improvements are just plain annoying, I'd prefer they didn't do anything than make it so plain they don't care about architects needs. And all the usual problems are still there, it just baffles me there are people working on this software, at least 7 improved speeds.

excellent ruby tig, truly amazing.

I just had two questions:

*The extrude edges by faces does not appear to work with lines - can you make this work?

A work around for this is to create a line and then break it apart and use the 'weld' ruby to put it back together. BUT is there a simpler way? It'd be great if this just worked for straight lines - or do you know of a similar ruby plugin that does this function?

*second: are there tutorials for these tools? I am struggling to use them and it looks like there are bits and pieces of info on them but they are not in one central location - would it be possible to unify the tutorials for these into a few critical images for each tool like you unified the toolbar?

Would be great, and as I said earlier, great tools as they are (just wish I could use them better with more tutorials!)

thanks stinkie, i don't suppose there is an equivalent for skp rather than rhino?

thanks that was a good introduction but i was more after some tutorials or other things that go through the process in step-by-step depth.

I have used vray a little but I don't know anything about its animation potential. I have version 1_05 and does anyone know of some specific tutorials I could look at for vray animation assistance? Also, as far as I understand you cant do sections in the animations but can you do layers/on off?

Recently installed sk07 on new comp and put my ruby plugins in the right folder and got this message, any ideas?

'Error Loading File progressbar.rb
cannot convert nil into StringError Loading File SimplifyContours.rb
cannot convert nil into StringError Loading File SoapSkinBubbleTools.rb
cannot convert nil into StringError Loading File utilities.rb
cannot convert nil into StringError Loading File weld.rb
cannot convert nil into StringError Loading File dynamiccomponents.rb
cannot convert nil into StringError Loading File extensions.rb
cannot convert nil into StringError Loading File langhandler.rb
cannot convert nil into StringError Loading File make_pano_pm.rb
cannot convert nil into StringError Loading File sandboxtools.rb
cannot convert nil into StringError Loading File sketchup.rb
cannot convert nil into String'