nice. I like this oily, reflective texture.
is that an image or procedural? looks like the latter to me. really nice indeed.
which engine did you use, GreyHead?

well, I can completely understand why you are waiting for winter (and I am not talking about me (surname) )

these boots are indeed beautyful.

@loewenkatze said:

(I should have taken a picture of my friend instead... staring at me photographing a boot telling him "Oh - I need that for SCF... you know, that SketchUp community I told you about...")

yeah, I know. I think in the last months I reorganized my priorities in life.

1. SCF
2. SketchUp (in close persuit)
3. Social contacts...

I know, this is sad - and a bit nerdy. but I am proud of it

@loewenkatze said:

There is really no need at all to have a new pair of shoes

I think you refer to women here!

a lot of men (like myself) wear shoes until they literally die (the shoes, not the men ).
not until your toes make direct contact with tarmac, it is time to look for another pair of shoes...

I know; such cruelty to lovely creatures like shoes is unreproducible for women

the last is my favourite too. even if the first one looks a bit like davy jones' fellows of "Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead mans Chest"

great work, really

I really like your choice of colour - draws the focus of attention immediately to the important objects of the image...

well, there is the perfect solution for all the poor, discriminated smokers!

Super Cig!

a hightech cigaret, that simulates the smoke of tobacco without emmiting second hand smoke.

"...stainless steel shell, lithium battery, micro-electric circuit, atomizing chamber and an indicator light..."

the only thing they have to add is a little speaker that simulates the crackling noise of burning tobacco when taking a deep drag...

shit, after more than two decades of abstinence I am seriously tempted to start smoking!!!

beautyful sculptures.
it is wonderful to see your last few models being actually two sculptures interacting with each other.

an idea to evade exporting > importing in ps > changing > exporting again... popped immediately into my mind:

why don't you import the image you want to match as a watermark (slightly transparent)? then you could adjust the view much more easily.

but you are right. some new photomatch features would be nice, so that we truly can use this tool...

tald311, may I ask, which RAID configuration you are using and what harddiscs (speed, company...) that are?
I am going to buy a new notebook soon. and what you describe...

@tald311 said:

...and it handles SketchUp in ways I did not think was possible. I have very large models as well (1 million to 3 million faces) and it was jaw dropping.

...sounds simply amazing.

cheers,

Jakob

@kwistenbiebel said:

Also having 1 finger up your nose while talking to a stranger will be illegal.

but thats only because you dont emmit harmful substances when both your nostrils are blocked...

no, honestly. as long as your actions do not harm others (or yourself beyond tolerable measure (what is tolerable? )they won't be prohibited.
and of course things, that may harm your surroundings, but are inevitalbe, will still be legal (the average human farts 15 times a day )

this is truely amazing, silver_shadow

@unknownuser said:

...you are better than someone enjoying a smoke outside?

thats the point. nobody will complain, if people smoke outside.
I even experienced that it is a nice addition to the normal evenings behavour. before that people simply sat at the table, drinking (and smoking).
now once in a while people stand up to get a bit of fresh air (well, fresh? ).
I acompany friends outside very often. not only because we are in the middle of a discussion, but because I do enjoy a bit of activity. that is something I didn't use to do previous to the smoking ban...

thank you.

I wish ruby programming was as easy (I never went beyond the "hello world" stage...)

cheers, kwistenbiebel (and thanks to Whaat). I will definitely have a try. sounds indeed quite easy to use.

to the uv-mapping: I am still dreaming of the multiple (and individual) pin mapping. but I am afraid, this is far do complicated to achieve and will remain a dream for now...

@jackson said:

...I woke up in the middle of the night having a very stressful nightmare about cleaning up this model, but at full scale.

I hope to find that in reality sometime in the future...
I used to help developing an immersive room at my university, a box (3m x 3m x 3m) with screens at three sides and floor. wearing 3d-glasses you could explore models in true scale.

my dream for the future is to have such an immersive room fully developed with an intuitive 3D SketchUp interface. you can model your building in small scale, then press the true scale button and enter the newly created design in real size - with reflections, bump mapping and dynamic lighting (in real time) what a wonderful idea.

• oh yeah. and we could have a competition for modelling the new virtual SCF meeting roomevery month!!!

but back to your nightmare, Jackson: these dreams about facing an unmanagable task can be really nasty. lets hope we will have some more positive ones in the future...

how right you are. I missed that. thanks for pointing out,johnsenior1973.

so thats the new version of indigo with displacement!?!
cool, should try that one out too (but I tink I will wait until the stable release. mine is an office computer after all )

oh, and profiles may slow down the performance as well...

great tool. thanks a lot.

going to have to play a bit in a free minute!

but it nevertheless looks great

honestly, the creators of this impressive ancient arch may have wanted to put an emphasis on the corner by using different stones (it even looks a bit like shells).

which renderer did you use? fry?

I think of the smoking ban in public buildings as a very good idea!
not only because I am a non smoker, but simply because of the following fact:

if you smoke, you affect people surrounding you (in contrast to drinking, where you may become an unpleasant fellow... but you only harm yourself).
if someone drinks alkohol, I can decide not to drink.
if someone smokes however, I am forced to inhale the smoke of his cigarets, if I want or not. and besides the fact that even passive smoking is highly unhealthy (of course not every cigaret lover dies from lung cancer and of course not everyone, dying from lung cancer is a cigaret lover - but it is without a question unhealthy) it is simply disgusting how my clothes always stank, when I was out for a drink! thank god the ban became active in Germany and England some time ago. I really enjoy going out now.

and the fear of pub owners, that their customers would abandon them, is completely causeless. people simply go outside to have a cigaret and then go back inside to have another pint.

I think eventually it will help people (like my flatmates, who desperately try) to reduce the amount of cigarets they are smoking - simply out of lazyness.