Hi jo-ke, have you tried Thea render? Lots of pre builds materials , very fast render, easy to set up.

Hi EzekielK, may be you can try to import your model in Moi3D (90 days trial) and export from there to sketchup. The exporter have a very effective way to reduce polygon count. But your file must be only nurbs, not mesh.
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Hi Majid, they are really cool, and remind me of Delius work. Do you know it ?
http://delius-dessinateur.blogspot.com/
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Hello Majid, I love your drawings, they are very sensitive and professionals. Here is a pic from Dieppe, Normandie, France.
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Hi, you also need to equalize your texture to make it seameless. Here is a version of it.

Hi Doug, just download the trial version of rhinoceros 5, or moi3d http://moi3d.com/download.htm, and you are done
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Hi Jerry. Select your object and click the properties icon in the maxwell toolbar. You can set here the opacity of the group or component selected.
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you're right.
And it's the same solution as Tig's.
I miss my real wood planks. It is so easy to do that for real!

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Hi

May be like this?

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Chalenge.skp

Hi Chris, and all the others (my first post)
I find the first version of your script (0.1a) is realy a good start. The loft tool in moi 3d have the same result with two curves. The bezier connection seems only necessary with tree or more curves. It makes a smooth connection between curves. Anyway. This is the tool missing in sketchup. How brave you are! Thank you for your script, and all of you who keep sketchup fascinating.
Moujiik.