Mental health is a topic that could be pushed around the barn for a long time with no particular result. The majority of opinions seem to come the the mad book of statistics and we do seem to like our statistics.

The rational for carrying ANY kind of weapon has been torn to shreds on many occasions and STILL folk spout about a need and rights, the rights of the victims get mislaid. I do not know what problems that guy or any of those who use guns to thrash out a difference or supposed injustice have but if we were to get rid of the so called defensive weapons I for one would feel safer. Can it be done though, even with the NRA apparently being willing to agree concessions.

As for weapons on military bases, well that is easy. Most of the time soldiers do not carry weapons, the weapons are stored in the armoury, a very well protected site that would be impossible for the average soldier to break into. As for the block being absent, well that's a new one on me as we used to store weapons complete and ready to go for ranges etc.

As far as folk getting argumentative, well not a problem but I think we all could do with setting an example and cutting it back a notch or two. The debate needs to be a thorough one for proper resolution and I think it will only get hotter. Please think it through when contemplating flaming folk? Ta.

'...and we're all in Hell!'

Actually, no. They get MUCH better tax breaks there.

Really great renders mate, a sense of reality and being there.

Luck of the draw and a good eye more like, nice job.

The actual scheme for the covert trips to france were made by slightly modified aircraft. The picture you see here shows markings in red and black as the larger white letters would show against a dark background like a field at night. The Lysander had ver short landing and take off runs. The large container underneath the aircraft was used to carry weapons and equipment to be 'delivered'.

Nice renders, the markings are too large though. BTW, the Lysander was not a spy plane, rather a communications and training aircraft. It WAS used to deliver and collect covert operations folk from occupied european countries due to the quiet nature of its engine.

I appreciate the assistance, I really do. I have the plug-in correctly installed and whatever I di nothing happened. no dialogue box or report of any kind. All I got was the word 'start'.

I have re-tried and had a success, my earlier post was me trying to work out what I was doing wrong and there was nothing for me to describe other than it did 'nothing'. I am going to have a look at what I was doing earlier to trace my error. It is pretty obvious I was the faulty component in this chain.

Tried that, thanks. I must have some issues, the plug-in does nothing I can see.

Trying to rotate a simple cube along a path, any ideas? I have searched the forums and found reference to a plug-in which is apparently no longer available. Ta.

I suppoes a thread talking about a render program can be moved wherever you want Richard. Are there any octane users here who can explain what the chuff is going on and if the export scripts work, possibly with some idea of the strengths and weaknesses please?
As far as I can tell it does not work with free but their forum is about as informative as a ten week dead frog, spatchcocked of course.

OK, lots of talk with not too much in the way of information from the octane team. Demo, non-demo and stuff like exporting should be basic issues for interest but the interested party has to jump through hoops to get such basic knowledge.

For my ten pence worth (allow for inflatio here) they are not taking users of other software seriously, what is the problem? Does it work with sketchup free? Does the exporter work with free? Is the exporter only available when you purchase a license and if so why? Is there any intention of adding funcionality for sketchup free? If this is not the case why do they constantly refer to sketchup and not include the pro part of that title? The point of addressing the graphics card for rendering is interesting but to eliminate so many users from the potential client list would appear to be a bad mistake.

Right now, with my short experience of trying this software, it is not worth the price I have not paid for it and it shows the same disreguard developers of software have had for clients and potential clients the world over. It is past time this was addressed and dealt with. We have money to spend and the developers want that money and WE should be a lot more circumspect over who with and when we spend our money to get the right quality for our dosh.

I am rendering with renditioner. The cg textures site is just pictures which are not suitable for mapping to a 3d object as far as I can see. I was hoping to map the texture to the model.
Even apples and oranges are something of a challenge as the majority of so called textures on the web are just images. I wish folk would not describe their images as textures, it just muddues the water for search engines. Thanks for the replies anyway folks.

Thanks very much.

Probably been aired before but, I could not find anything with a search. Yes, that old chestnut.

Does anyone know where there are some decent free food texture maps available without a masters in swahili and urdu cookery via bluetooth and radio ham setup, but only IF you can provide birth certificate of all of ghengis khans living grandparents. In quadruplicate and NOT via photocoppery.

No, not lost it yet, just extremely fed up with search engines returns for a simple word search. No idea what the couple in the last set of images were trying to do with that croissant but, I do hope it gave fully informed consent and was of majority.

PDF over video every time, much less obfuscation in a pdf.

We only really need one app, specifically an app to get the develpment team to listen to users and get to grips with the very basic problems in sketchup. Additional faces, issues with multiple plugins freezing the program, no functionaly reliable intersection tool etc et al.

Been at this point with other software and stopped using it, only at this point (not just me but many folk leaving) will the dev team actually listen. Most of the time the cries of users are drowned out by marketing types and beanie counters. Sad way to run a business.

You say npr, still pretty as a picture.

A simple attempt to give a caterham 7 a bit of aerodynamic assistance. Not finished by any means and the current body may well change with a bit of tweaking here and there. No attempt to create an inlet for carbs or radiator as yet, that will come when I am happier with the main body aero.

Great, thanks mate.

"Also... I think that we SHOULD have a "Beating a Dead Horse" emoticon".

I think a vomiting toad would be sufficient actually.

It hardly matters what the logo is, the program itself is far more important.