This is aswesome Tom, i'll be sure to check these out.

Thanks David,

This part of the forum has become my fast favorite!

I have been following Alex Hogrefe's Blog for some time, I hope he doesn't mind the link to his Website http://www.alexhogrefe.com/tutorials. He has a trove of tutorials in post pro that I have found very useful.

@unknownuser said:

Here's a good trick for masking trees

http://www.phong.com/tutorials/mask.tree/

in Photoshop

which you don't have....but need

So my problem is as follows: Preselect my group, select first line, select second line (curved), automatic bug splat! no explanation, no warning.

after an hour or so sifting through my plugins, I discovered that when SU Podium V2 (i have version 2.6, the file is called SU_Podium_V2.rbs) is present in your plugins folder it causes for shapebender to crash automatically,
has anybody experienced the same?

Best,

Chris,

per our discussion. Still crashes, select first line select second line (curved) then crash without warning.

Here are my plugins.

Best,

Cory,

I process that has worked for me, and continues to do so, is the use components to divide and break down large models. This is particularly useful for large scale (urban scale) models where you have any number of buildings populating your model. In this case I make each building a component. Yes, a component. Once you make the building (or each model piece worth separating) a component you can use the context menu to do a "save as". this will in fact export the component out of the current sketchup model placing it in a location of your choosing.
You can now work on the individual building piece by itself without struggling with your large file size model. Once you have completed the edits you want to make to the component you can re-open the original model, right click the component you created originally and in the context menu select reload. you'll be prompted to search for the model to reload (the name if the model is already auto filled in the dialog box) you select it, reload it and you should have the updated, more complex, component in place.
This is something that works for us at our office for our large scale planning work but can also be applied to smaller, intricate models as well.

Hope that helps.

I had the same problem and I solved by turning the aero off on windows 7. For some reason, weird things happen when you turn on all the windows UI fluffy stuff.

Well done indeed. I play around with a similar process so everything sounds familiar. Do you do an x-ray view overlay for one of your images? It seems there is an interesting transparency showing through. Also, how do you handle your selections in photoshop for things like the floor showing through the furniture and such. That is on heck of a selection! Best wishes and keep it up!

nice work!

Is the ceiling/floor a texture in SU or Postprocess?

mirjman,

These are the nicest images i have seen in a while. i'd love to hear about your process to create these, a tut?

mitcorb

thanks for the feedback. I use an external usb drive to work from. I find i can keep my computer lean and mean by removing all the file clutter out of it. The issue went away when i restarted Su after the files started appearing. What's annoying about it is that every time you save it saves another copy of the file and numbers it 1,2,3 so forth. the original file does not get saved, if that makes any sense.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback.

mitcorb

i am having the same problem saving to an extarnal usb drive. Did you find a workaround?

dude! that is awesome!

Very Frank Lloyd Wright Eh?

Dave,

I love fotosketcher! I use it quite a bit for stuff at my office. Haven't mastered yet though. This workflow is very similar to what i do, export some linework, then a "no edges" scene, pass that thorgh Fotosketcher and do a little post-processing in PS. I tried to explain this process to other people in the office and nobody seem to get it.
Anyway, cool image.

Nice, I like the background texture whateveritis.

I'd love to try this plugin ( iam still on v 7.1) but it does not appear wise to install this as it might not work on ver 7?

excellent example Dave. but are the filled in cut faces outside of the component/group? otherwise the also "z fight" with the section cut?

mandar,

try this alex hogrefe's blog. they guy works with Kerky and does an awesome job at explaining his process through you tube videos.

[url]www.alexhogrefe.com[\url]

thanks Barry!