I hope Sketchup gets a good update next release. I'm becoming very concerned about the futures of my 2 favorite CG packages. Sketchup and Thea Render. We get great software with a great community and active developers then the developers sell out to some company who is clearly profit driven and kill the very things that grow the user base like the free version of SU is no longer available in the form it was and it seems we can now kiss free updates to Thea good bye as the new company is adopting the same Trimble business model. Companies should really take a look at how 3DSmax hooks their user base giving away free versions to students who later swear by the product. Why suppress the free versions and updates that would only bring in a lot more users of which many will eventually buy a pro license like I did?

But I accept what I have for now. I bought a pro license for version 14 and got v.15 during that same cycle. But ever since I been holding out on getting newer versions because I can basically do everything I need with what I have so far (except UV mapping) and the newer features just didn't grab my $100. The only reason I'm considering an update is so I can use the newer versions of Profile builder in a pro version but it's not that serious because i do have v17 free. So my attitude is, I still love and use Sketchup versions I have so far and even if we do not ever get another update, I will continue to use what I have as long as it works. I just hope this community continues to be active.

Thanks again everyone. Dave, I agree something did change but I always put on hardware acceleration. Right now I have possible RAM issues (may need to replace some sticks) but I can confirm it was the fast feedback causing the glitching. After turning it off, everything seems normal even at launch. No more black screen flashes. But I am curious if I would be missing out on anything without fast feedback? looks like a minor thing to me though.

Thanks kaas. Turning off fast feedback resolved the selection box lag issue. If I see anything else I will report here.

@pbacot said:

Have you tried changing the preference for hardware acceleration? Under Preferences / OpenGL.

Yes. I have it on Hardware acceleration.

Lately my copy of SU2015 pro seems unstable on the graphic side. When I launch, I get a black screen in the work area for 2 seconds and any time I drag to select, the box have some lag to it. Anyone know why this would happen? My GPU drivers are up to date.

Thanks Dave R. Now that you mentioned it, it could be an outdated extension. I been meaning to do some cleaning in that area. I will start there and see if the crashes stop.

For the past couple of months every time I close Sketchup 2015 it crashes. When I open SU I have to navigate to where my latest project instead of seeing it listed in the recently opened list. The good thing is I don't lose any progress as the files do keep the saved state. But I know this shouldn't be happening. Anyone know a fix for this?

@rich o brien said:

yes, slowly slowly catchy monkey.

enjoy the trial! if you need a refresh let me know

Ok, thank you!

@rich o brien said:

Make sure your texture is square 1 : 1

For documentation see : https://wrap-r.com/docs-wrapr-.html

Still not complete as I've more to add soon

Ah...my texture is 1:2. Sometimes I need the room. Any chance to support textures beyondn 1:1 dimensions in the future? Or is it because of the 1:0 space thing?

I just discovered this awesome looking plugin. I got the trial version and started playing with this. Usually when I'm making a game asset, I make the texture map first and adjust as I go along. I would usually do my UV mapping in Blender where I could move the islands to where I want them within the texture. But when I start WrapR, the texture I assigned in Sketchup does not show up in WrapR and the "Sketchup Texture" option is greyed out. How do I bring in my texture after launching WrapR from Sketchup?

BTW, the help button takes me to the home page and I don't see an obvious way to navigate to the user guide from there. Is there any more documentation for this that explain working with textures?