Tonight's Render
3000x2250 Image looking from altar towards front doors with depth of field effect to focus eye on roundal in front of altar (I hope )
Click to View Progress - Updated every 10mins

Edit:
Instead of creating a new post, I'll just edit this one.

Here's the finished render and the pure SU view:

Something is not quite right with the rendering, if your look at the roundal on the floor you can see 1/4 of it look different, I've make it in 4 quarters so I could get 4x1200pix images for the texture(s).
In every other view its fine, I changed nothing and all the settings match in the 4 materials so I'm not sure what's going on.

I'm using XP and this model wouldn't render, it would get through the processing stage and then go straight to Complete without rendering anything. I then found this thread on the Twilight forum and it enabled me to have enough free memory to render it.

Additionally I used ThomThom's CleanUp plugin a extensively to purge a lot of waisted faces/edges etc. At one point I copied the model several times and in each one cleared out everything except floors or walls or windows etc. I then cleaned that particular model of everything (layers/styles/scenes/edges/faces etc etc)and then reimported it into a clean SketchUp file. This got rid of a lot of stuff I didn't even know was in there.
I thought I'd been efficient in my modeling but CleanUp showed just how wrong I was.

Edges : 4,573,393
Faces : 2,120,510
Components : 35,953
Groups : 6,100
Comp Definitions : 958
Layers : 63
Material : 256

Size : 65.5 Mb
Zipped : 41.5 Mb

Here's this weekend's panorama. 64 hours on a Core2 Quad 2.5Ghz 4000x2000 jpeg

Links to full size 4000x2000 jpeg

Link to panorama on Pixeet

If I've understood it right, they're adjusters. the top and bottom connectors are threaded into the centre section and it's 8 sided like a big nut. Turning it with what must be the mother of all spanners would enable them to adjust the tie down's angle. That part of the drawing was hard to read.

There are 2 ball joints (one at the top, one at the bottom) within the tie down post. I asume they'd have to adjust the tie downs position due to thermal expansion etc on the Launch platform.

Mr James is quite right.
I got the as built drawings for the Mobile launch platform/Launch umbilical tower for the SaturnV, the scale of it is just fantastic. 78 pages of what you see below!

I've seen a few models but I fancied doing my own, There are lots of photos of the Saturn V but finding good reference photos of the launch platform is hard work.

@roger
Only in a darkened room

@Fletch
You try holding an iPhone next your your ear with an iPad at arms length and spinning on the spot. If it wasn't for the fact that I'd sensibly had my 11am whisky it'd been a lot worse.

@mac1

@unknownuser said:

well head or blowout preventer

Nope

I'll give you a clue, Inside the VAB an S-IC, S-IIB, S-IVB, LM,SM and CM are stacked on an MLP/LUT and then taken using the CT to either LC39A or LC39B whereupon the CT parks the MLP/LUT upon 6 of the things above

Come on I'm practically drawing you a picture

I've just kicked off this weekends panorama, I've set Twilight to save it every 10mins to my dropbox folder.
Here's a link to it:

4000x2000 jpeg panorama

Twilight tends to create big jpegs (opening and resaving them usually halves their size) so be warned if you chose to view it. It could be 10Mb or more hence why I've done a URL link and not an IMG link here.

As I said it'll be updated every 10mins so it'll get more refined as time goes on.

Close, its definitely for holding something down

It may seem like I've only ever worked on this project bit its not true, ITS NOT TRUE I TELL YOU!!!

They've either been for too boring or in the case of the prison far to sensitive to show.
This is a little something I'm having fun with for my own self gratification, can you guess what it is?

OK,
I've deleted the old Picasa album and reuploaded the 52 images into a new one:
http://picasaweb.google.com/100514400832478538257/1287StPetersSUFinals?authuser=0&feat=directlink
I tested it and it looks OK, I've edited the 1st post with the correct link.

@hellenbak
Try it now, it should be this album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/100514400832478538257/1287StPetersSUFinals?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Edit - Fixed the link to the album, it appears it was corrupt.
@Pixero
A photographer friend has Pano2VR http://gardengnomesoftware.com/pano2vr.php and he converted the 6 images from the CubicPanoOut script to an equirectangular image for me. I did the 6 images at 2000x2000 and he converted them to a 4000x2000 this way the edge/profile lines came out a bit thinner than they would have had I done the 6 images at 1000x1000

Here's a link to a very rough YouTube vid showing the Pixeet app on my iPad:
[flash=420,315:2kn1f5v3]http://youtube.com/v/JhNleq30kLE[/flash:2kn1f5v3]

@hellenbak
Your right, I used a different browser without me being logged in to my Google account and I got the same message, weird.
I've deleted the album and I'm uploading the images again.
Give it 15 mins to upload and for me to edit the first post for the new album and post another link here.

Last nights render.....

Its in this Picasa Album along with the other renders

@hellnbak
Try it now, all the Picasa links were https, I've changed them to http. I cant test it as it takes 'me' to 'my' album

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Thought that might get your attention

Hello All,
It’s been a while since I posted here, I had to check myself, it was May 2010!!! Damn….

For the newer folk here, I’ve been working on a church here in Northern Ireland since 2004; for a long time it was a back burner project, working on it whenever I/We had gaps between other projects. Finally in 2009/10 the project was given the go ahead and recently, I’m pleased to say its finally finished.

I've done some posts about the church before mostly on this thread so instead of making a bunch of comments about individual images/photos I’ll leave it to you to ask any questions you might have.

Here are a bunch of links to some Picasa albums containing a range of photos/image of the Sketchup model and the real church.

Picassa album of photos taken prior to construction beginning

Picassa album of the Sketchup model being built and various design options such as stairs, altar etc. being developed.

Picasa Album of photos taken during construction.

Picasa album of photos of the finished church

Picasa album of images from the finished Sketchup model

As I own Twilight Render I thought I should use it!

Picasa album of images from the model rendered in Twilight.
I’ve done no post processing in Photoshop/other .
I’m rendering an image each night and a panorama each weekend so this album will be updated daily.

I’m rendering the panoramas at 4000x2000 and the images at 3000x2250.
I’ve found an app for the iPad called Pixeet 360 that not only enables you to view the panoramas but using the gyro in the iPad you can move the iPad around to look at the building, up, down and all around, it brings a smile to the face of anybody who ‘plays’ with it.
They can be hosted by Pixeet and (with luck) linked below:
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/JN5U5J3E
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/X9F1YP14
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/GXJG8W47
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/KLW4Z21F
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/P9GCDWK1
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/M2OUOM8R
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/V28VLQBI
http://www.pixeet.com/pano/J2P984RS

Well done! I'm truly impressed. That's a lot of work you've done there.
Do you have an example of the drawings you worked from?, I'd love to see what type of info you had.

Hello all,
I've not updated this thread for a while so I thought I'd show you what's happening with the church.

This is the view that greets you as you walk in.
The finished floor level will be at the base of the columns/top of the pyramid founds.

View of the new foundations and recently stripped walls.

Good view from the Choir gallery. Nice clean site eh?

Once the plaster/render was stripped off this is what was found!
The bricks disintegrate when you so much as look at them, a decision of what to do as not yet been made!

Finally some Sketchup!
This is the under floor heating. It consists of steel boxes (green) cast into the floor with convection radiators inside them. Grills (pink) flush with the finished floor top them off.

A slightly closer view.

Same view but with the floor(unfinised) and pews visible. The Monsignor decided on new deeper pews so its been a bit of a battle getting the new pitching to work within the old column/walls

Another view of the pews but showing the nealers.

Same again but with the nealers in the up position.

I'm currently working on 3 different models; Floor/Pews, Dry lining, Organ/Choir area and at some point they all be recombined back into the master Proposed model.
The old organ has been completely removed as it was found to be beyond economic repair, a new super-duper one is currently being designed. I may have been mistaken but I'm convinced that I heard the designer talking about a Hemi V8 powered turbo pump from a space shuttle main engine to power the lower notes, apparently it give a richer, smoother sound.

P.S.
In case your wondering, I do work on other projects, but none I can/could/would tell you about.

What got me was his proportions, the door, windows, basic building height etc. are very good. I don't imagine for a moment he entered any values whilst modelling it so its all visual guess work.

Damn good work.

Hello all,
Another big gap between posting here but this is worth a message.

I was over in Warwickshire visiting family and my 7yr old nephew wanted to see the model of the church he'd been told I was building, I duly showed him, told him it was done in Sketchup and thought no more of it.

The next day my sister emails me this:
[flash=480,360:2yxyy4le]http://www.youtube.com/v/QIH_iGaHpSo&ap=%2526fmt%3D22[/flash:2yxyy4le]

She tells me he did if after seeing Sketchup for the first time only 1 1/2 hours before!

This morning (3 days later) I get another email 'Jay builds his own house this morning' with this attached:
[flash=480,360:2yxyy4le]http://www.youtube.com/v/ymgtkVm6fhg&ap=%2526fmt%3D22[/flash:2yxyy4le]

Please note the email title...THIS MORNING, this morning! its a Saturday and he's up designing and knocking out models of houses before I've even had my 17th cup of coffee.

Woh! I say woh there boy, that's just not how it's done in these parts, Ya just can't be goin' around showin' up the big boys, yer going to get yourself hurt, Hurt I say!.