@luigi755 said:

@grega22 said:

Does anyone know anywhere else to download kerkythea? Website constantly says "This site has been temporarily disabled, please try again later."

I try to access the site and gives me an Error 401...

Only the kerkythea forum at http://www.kerkythea.net/forum/ does work at the moment. No file ropository. Giannis is working with the updated site, but it's unfortunatelly a slow work (as most of the time is used on Thea render developement).

If your friend/collequoe/... has a kerkythea installation pack, maybe they can share it. But please keep in mind that even as kerkythea is a free software, it not a public domain/GPL/..., and distribute it only in small a scale (unless you get a permission from giannis). EULA denies a mass distibution of Kerkythea via web and so.

@unknownuser said:

@gilles said:

Nice work, but be care with Le Corbusier copyright:

no way will that hold up in court.

but yeah, nice work for sure

"The French courts have found in favor of the Le Corbusier rights-holders who initiated these claims." looks like they have case already win in court, but Getty Images is appealing...
French courts seem quite interesting as one publish pictures of the Eiffel tower in daylight, but not with a nigh illumination http://www.eiffel-tower.com/the-eiffel-tower-image-and-brand/image-rights-the-eiffel-tower-brand.html

Great modelling anyways!

If you used TR1/TR2 or other progressive render medoth you can use supersamping set to high, it will reduce noise.

In a sense that there are alternatives for "reporting" your online activities to the government. But if you look on functionality, alternative may lack on some areas, like slower DNS response or jumping out from windows is a PITA (if there are no alternative programs made for linux), bitcoins have serious limitations (comparing with number of sites that use paypal) or so...
But there are alternatives and maybe they have a change to develop now further, if people do start to use those.

David Hier made a concrete totorial for Thea Render, similar principles should work with KT too, specially when making textures.
http://www.davidhier.co.uk/Tutorials/concrete.html

You shoul also look into these kerkythea tutorials, if KT material creation is not yet familiar to you:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/tutorials/sketchup-and-kerkythea/sketchup-and-kerkythea-fast-start-4architects/
http://www.sketchupartists.org/tutorials/sketchup-and-kerkythea/kerkythea-take-a-deeper-look-at-materials/

You maybe ready to move forward... internet is made to heal itself - a way beyond originally thought by DARPA

http://prism-break.org/

@krisidious said:

Yes!

It's a conflict.

Removing all plugins from the plugins folder and it works.

Now how can I figure out which one it is...

Even this was a conflict. It's also possible that something gets tossed in virtual store (by improper permissions at plugin -folder). So it's good to use thomthom's VirtualStore Check http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=48399 too

@fredo6 said:

thomthom,

I do agree with all you say.

1. The technical requirements of EWH are constraining. Actually, one problem script writers need to take care of is the retro-compatibility, because not everyone has migrated to SU13 and plugins must be installable in other ways, on SU6, SU7, SU8. In addition, managing the transition, with change of names and compliance to EWH installation model leads to a massive update of documentation, posts.

SU8 free will probably be a commercial use for long time among those who need SU rarely or if SU2013 is simply too expensive. I also do know some that actually do consider if SU2013 is worth to upgrade from SU8. SU8 works ok and it's functionality is rather easy to extend with existing plugins.
Sounds like PITA if SU2013 compatible plugins cannot be installed directly on SU8, is it really so?

@rich o brien said:

We did submit and it was refused.

Looks like they wont bother to answer on a direct question at:
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5684885087366507074&postID=7249709507814990061&isPopup=false

Personally I have not yet find any particular good reason to use extension warehouse, but I certainly do understand it's importance to plugin authors.

@unknownuser said:

These animations are real time ?

Those are rendered in Thea Studio's darkroom.

Looks great!

@massimo said:

@krisidious said:

Fantastic Massimo...

on revered faces... while this should not be an issue in SU, some renderers will not show backfaces.

But materials seem to be applied on both front and back faces, so this should not be an issue because renderers will "see" the mat on the front face anyway. However I agree that having front faces should be better.

I am not sure if all renderers can handle materials from back faces. With Thea, it really does not matter generally, but some features like displacement, do use surface normals - then things will go wrong.

Have to say that I am not yet ready to rule out a possibility that Rossi's E-Cat is just a some elaborate scam. http://news.newenergytimes.net/2013/05/21/rossi-manipulates-academics-to-create-illusion-of-independent-test/

@marvins_dad said:

Still have clipping of the model view in one of my larger models...was hoping the under the hood work would have fixed that. It is a big issue when trying to zoom in to work on details as well as just getting shots of the model.

They do give a impression that it's fixed... but ques not. For me it was the only interesting feature so far. Maybe just zoom in from some modest scale will work?

@unknownuser said:

...Zoom In More

We increased LayOut’s maximum zoom capability by a factor of ten, from 1000% to 10,000%. At that magnification level, your sofa would be the size of Jupiter. Or thereabouts

edit: oops my bad, zoom improvement is only for LayOut.

@krisidious said:

@wyatt said:

@chiefwoodworker said:

@wyatt said:

I haven't seen any discussion regarding the cost to skip 2013 and upgrade from SketchUp Pro 8 to SketchUp Pro 2014. Will it be $95 or would one have to buy another full $590 license to skip a release cycle?

The upgrade from SketchUp Pro 8 to SketchUp Pro 2013 is $95 plus state tax.

Sorry, but that wasn't my question. I want to know what to expect to pay if I skip 2013 and go directly from 8 to 2014. Would I pay an upgrade fee or whole new license fee?

$590.00 US

That is actually not clear, for what I seen at http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000020

they state

@unknownuser said:

...If you’re upgrading from an older version of Pro to SketchUp Pro 2013, you can upgrade your single-user license for $95 by visiting our online Upgrade Wizard.
and then later

@unknownuser said:

...What if my upgrade, maintenance, and support program expires? [highlight=#80ff00:2onema9p](my note: I understand that this only applies when you have got your into SU 2013 and later "update program")[/highlight:2onema9p]

It’s important to note that your SketchUp Pro license will always work for the version of Pro that you paid for. SketchUp Pro licenses will not stop working when your upgrade, maintenance, and support program expires. For example, if you purchased a new license for SketchUp Pro 2013 on June 1st, 2013, you would get a perpetual Pro 2013 license that would not expire. You would also get upgrades, maintenance, and support until May 31st, 2014 (i.e. one year after the purchase).

To continually get the annual SketchUp Pro upgrades, maintenance, and support, year after year, you will need to renew the program again for $95* per year. Don't worry, we'll let you know when you're nearing the end of your program so that you have time to renew if you choose to do so.

I might be wrong, but I understand that they actually don't state anything about if it's possible to update SU8 later to SU2014/2015/etc as SU 8 and earlier do not have this annual SketchUp Pro upgrades -program that can expire. Confusing - yes.

@ely862me said:

Believe it or not, the old version had so many bugs, that in this version were fixed; most of the time they involved in bug fixing the old version which came with it's own problems then it came the new additions with their own bugs!

If you wanted something fancy and WOW ing, we could have waited for about two years !! I for one, can't wait that longer. The slight improvements are good for now, and I hope for more in the future !

That's exacly my issue when considering pro version. I honestly exepted this is a bit more than a payed bug fix pack plan with some eye candy and a promise that SU will be developed further. Will there be a 64-bit version for example? What about true circles and issues with extrude... some major core issues in SU seems not get a solution (or even a promise that they will be addressed).

[sorry for the rant]

Darn... sounds like one is actually forced on $95* per year "upgrade, maintenance, and support program". If I understand right one cannot get SU with a upgrade price, if it happens to fall out of the program. http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000020

@unknownuser said:

...To continually get the annual SketchUp Pro upgrades, maintenance, and support, year after year, you will need to renew the program again for $95* per year. Don't worry, we'll let you know when you're nearing the end of your program so that you have time to renew if you choose to do so.

So one just have to trust that SU will eventually get better (sorry I don't see a track record on this) or perhaps jump on a alternative program.

@bbrown said:

http://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-pro/new-in-2013

Sounds like "Zoom In More" is the thing for me... cannot remember how often I have been frustrated with the broken zoom. But if trimble will now release a new version yearly (as paid upgrade), maybe I'll wait the next one that actually offers more than some bug fixes. Sure, LayOut did get a proper update (or so it sounds), but I never use it... and with sketchucation plugin store, I hardly find Extension Warehouse interesting.

@dave r said:

Yes, 2013 is released. If you're after the free version you want to download SketchUp 2013 Make.

Looks like there is no more commercial use with free SU. SketchUp 2013 Make license agreement http://sketchup.com/license/b/sketchup-make?width=800&height=600

@unknownuser said:

...Trimble Navigation Limited and/or its affiliates ("Trimble") gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the executable version of the Software for non-commercial use only. Non-commercial use means: you may not sell, rent, lease or lend the output of the Software or the Services. If you are a for-profit organization of any kind, or an employee of a for-profit organization using the Software or Services in that capacity, you are engaged in commercial activity; therefore, in order to use the Software and Services, you must purchase a SketchUp Pro license.

Finally! Independent Testing Of Rossi's E-Cat Cold Fusion Device: Maybe The World Will Change After All

Released paper "Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device" http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3913

@unknownuser said:

… if we consider the whole volume of the reactor core and the most conservative figures on energy production, we still get a value of (7.93 ± 0.8) 10^2 MJ/Liter that is one order of magnitude higher than any conventional source.

Sounds like there could be something on this... certainly this will trigger some further studies. There is still too much uncertain on this - for example the way how the experiment was arranged.

@edenux said:

I agree that in a pic of real thing is not so clean. But it is because of texture and dirt. In your renders it is not a dirt map, or texture, but its a bad GI. And it did not convince me, because you never get bad GI in real life. If I were you, I would try to avoid that in future works.
I gave you some critics which might help you improve rendering quality, while others just tell that is perfect and increadible. But it is never perfect.

Sorry I have to disagree with GI part, for what I see it's just how wall material is set. I know that massimo mostly uses Thea's unbiased engine (and for me this does not look like biased render result), with that blotches or similar effects that biased rendering generates sometimes (photon-mapping and so) are not possible.