Hi Alan, Yes, that was the problem. I thought I had already scaled to the correct size and didn't think to check that. Thanks for helping me solve this. Regards Mr S

You can either do that or ask them to send the survey in a simple text file showing the xyz coordinates and then you could use Didier's other script: cloud_v6.rb to create a mesh from the data file itself.

I wouldnt name that stupidity....i would name it INDIFFERENCE...Why? Maybe i'm not right but,for lot of time and still ,they think like this: If we are on a floating boat,everything is cool(so we dont care that Europe is a continent and France is in Europe not in Australia).

The most sense I've seen written about education either side of the Atlantic in a very long time. UK Governments of either persuasion have bent over backwards to avoid addressing the real problems (if they ever realised what they were in the first place) for the last 30+ years. In the '70's they said that the problem was with the bottom 25%...that the bright kids were as good as any in the world. So do they deal with the bottom 25%? No they turn the entire education survice upside down and have continued to do so on a regular basis ever since. They are about to do so yet again, with yet another change in the exam system....as if testing kids every 5 minutes actually teaches them anything...except how to pass exams.

I just received an email from DAZ 3D with ads for the new version of Reallusion and found this 6 year old post that had only one answer. I pose the same question, has anyone tried it out. It will accept 3DS files so SU models ought to be functional, and you can import google warehouse objects. It is $140 for the pro version and the demo video of what it can do is fascinating. I have been using LumenRT4 and enjoy the life it puts in the walk/fly throughs. With Reallusion it appears that you can green screen your actions and have your own avatar or a clients avatar in the model, interacting with the spaces. I wonder about the learning curve and the cost of additional modules. Any thoughts????

Excellent..!! Worked like a charm for me... Thanks for sharing..!!

@remus said: xbjllb, the bug we're talking about is when you have a camera position mid animation that passes through shadows. It messes them up, to put it bluntly. What your describing sounds somewhat different. Though his solution could have some merit!!!

"I think Ron Paul may have been too real" I think you have hit the nail on the head. It appears to be a part of the human condition to want to be liked and accepted by those around you. But I find it depressing that so many people seem to have a sheep mentality. They want so badly to remain a part of the herd that they are terrified to say or even think differently from what appears to be the "popular" view. Very,very depressing. Regards Mr S

Yeah, the script was a quickie I did before work this morning. I was originally just going to make a copy & paste one-liner for the Ruby Console, but putting it in a menu was easy enough. I just used Groups because that is all that the first example model had. Update: TIG has updated this script to work on Groups and Componenets. See the following link: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=11081

@alan fraser said: @bellwells said: My Lord, what the heck does the Virgin Islands do to consume oil at 3 times the rate as the next highest per capita consumer???? It caters to 2.6 m (mostly American) tourists. Ahh, this does make sense. That many tourists, as a ratio to the native population, can really skew the numbers I guess.

I'm a climate change skeptic. I've followed the debate closely and I believe the scientific community has failed to prove any of the conclusions Al Gore so forcefully presented. here's a fair summary of my views as presented by Prof Don Aitken. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2008/2226464.htm note the snide introduction by Robyn Williams, the presenter of the Science show and a confirmed GW believer. There is also a reply to Prof Aitken's remarks here. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2008/2249809.htm#transcript

The "Extended" version of Photoshop CS3 also has the capability to assemble an image sequence into a video, and then export it as either MOV or any other available format. Since the imported sequence of stills appears as a single video layer, you can resize it or apply (some) filters or layer effects to it before rendering it out to video. Or you can rotoscope individual frames (haven't tried it yet, but sounds neat). Or you can layer multiple video layers and control their transparency at various points during the timeline. Of course, PS CS3 is a much more expensive option than Quicktime Pro.

Good old Ruby to the rescue! It's amazing how often they help out and make your life so much easier.

Nothing new, but more of a reitteration based on my findings which have mainly been w/ the brick textures. Image resolution does help but it seems to be on a decreasing scale. So rendering small images will make the affect horrible. If you do images about the size of your monitor it'll be quite a bit better. But after you get past about 2000 pixels in either width or height it doesn't seem to make as much difference. The biggest difference comes from changing the scale. Make the scale as large as you can without making it so big it's obvious the scale is way off. This is also a much better option for animations since you don't want to just try and solve the problem by making ginormous image files. I haven't really tested it much but it seems logical that you'd want to use .png or tiff files since they aren't compressed like a jpg. I usually combine all of these things. Scale the texture up, have SU render a bunch of png files at 29.97 fps at a nice big size (twice the size I'll end up with is pretty ideal), then use Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 to put them into an animation. -Brodie

Hi folks. I am on the obsessive side since I am always telling myself that sometime I might want to add to an existing model and I would prefer to be assured that everything is nice and precise. Otherwise, I would take the risk of drawing something on an inaccurate position and then propagate the error and have to camouflage even more bad geometries. Just ideas.

Hi, Just in case anybody else wants the answer... I have figured out that all you need to do is zoom out, point your cursor to where you need to go, and zoom back in. The focus goes where the cursor is pointing. Just a slightly different way of panning around but works. (Still prefer the SketchUp method though) Regards Mr S