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has anyone experience with these new MBT shoes, that tell us, that we walked the wrong way for the last hundret years?
I tried them on in a store - they are really comfortable and indeed force you to stand upright. but I am not sure if I want to wear these all the time. for example I have no idea how climbing stairs in this shoes feels like.
and 150 pound are a bit much for an experiment...
@solo said:
...and a teenie bit of displacement.
I LOVE it!
which renderer did you use (surely not the new (unstable) indigo with displacement)?
@Fred
it seems you don't have to start rendering after all. just post your models and you will get a lot of nice images, without twitching a muscle... 
it is really fun to have a go with your sculptures. thank you very much again for sharing!
I totally agree with you all: a new photomatch is needed. if you start a model from scratch, it is ok.
but as soon as you want to mach an existing model to a photo, its a real pain.
I really like your idea of a multi-pin system, thomthom.
didn't we discuss a multi-pin texturing tool some weeks ago? 
exactly the same would be perfect for photomatch.
you insert a pin at signifficant points of the image
then you snap this pin to a corner in the existing model.
you only need 3 pins, don't you?
how right you are Juju!
you should never underestimate how much better a clean model works. and I think, if you use components where possible (everytime you have a repetition of the same element), it is only your grafic card that has to labour...
but whether you can switch on all layers or not depends of course on how many layers you have and (much more important) how big your model is.
with a big enough model you can bring any computer to his knees.
I like it a lot, Fred.
wonderfully powerful curves. why don't you try to fit a building in it 
but seriously. imagine a building with that shape as fassade - great!
dear Fred,
just to give you bit of a sweetener, why rendering your wonderful sculptures would be a great idea...
(after applying Subdivide & Smooth to your proxy (two iterations) I loaded a frosted glass material, and changed it's colour to have three different tones - all that took me about 3 minutes. I pressed the render button and left it simmer for a while...)
see, what great render potential sleeps in your work? 
@igor said:
...i have a single pair of converse all-stars. lo-tops in grey. they're all nice and scuffed up and weathered, as i like to say "well loved"...
the same for me. I normally have one pair of shoes that is used excessively until destruction.
however, it happens that I am proud to have two pairs of regularly used shoes now:
the bespoken all-stars
and a pair of black Puma Iffley II (I went through half of London to find them...)
my favourite is definitely the last one. it has such a curious spirit, that in this stadium something exciting is going on.
the focus is entirely drawn to the building - great!
oh, what a wonderfully cute car. the seats look highly comfortable and you definitely have a good panoramic view. I guess it is not for high speeds but rahter for relaxed traveling or even sight seing?
personally I would buy it in a different colour though
"... ah, and could we rotate the sun orientation about 30 degrees to get more light onto these windows? no one will ever know we did..."
first of all: are you scaling everything (door, hinges...) or only the door leaf? because if you scale the hinges as well, they will be distorted.
to be honest, I have no idea, why SketchUp renames all your compontents. it is not supposed to do that.
but what you can do anyway, is to copy the overall component, then click right mouse button and choose "Make Unique" to create a new, independent copy of the door. you can rename it to your likings (in the entity info window). and by double clickin it you can alter this new version without exploding it at all.
I hope this works for you. in the meantime I will try to figure out, why your subcomponents are renamed...
I knew I could impress you with a Fiat 500, kwistenbiebel
@RayOchoa
photoshop my friend; allmighty photoshop...
the homer button is one of Jims best ruby scripts. it is always a great help, if you had a typical "Doh" moment
I love the monochrome look of the image, brightened up by the coloured scf-logo.
that is really nice, because it leads the spectator's eye directly to the most important: SCF!
what I would really like to see is a plugin that allowes you to choose your desired aspect ratio (instead of the stage dimensions that are dependant on how many toolbars you have and whether you run SketchUp in full screen or not).
this is already possible with the SkIndigo plugin. if you choose an aspect ratio that differs from the stage, you will see two transparent, black bars where the image will be cropped.
such a thing would be great for native SketchUp image export.
thus you could adjust the aspect ratio to your background watermark...
@kwistenbiebel said:
The 'Texture Spray' method you describe could work like the 'clone' option in Photoshop.
a great idea.
quite handy would be a small thumbnail of the spraytexture (something like this...)
a checkbox to only use the texture spray on a specific material (or more precisely: on faces that are coloured in a specific material). thus you could for example apply rust only to faces with car paint, but dirt on top of everything...
of course you could use different brushes similar to photoshop.
another very interesting option would be a function that increases the spray pressure in corners and hollows, because rust and dirt will concentrate in this places of an object (in places where water is gathering easily...)
and of course we needed an eraser tool to reduce the texture opacity in places.
a short while ago I had quite a lot of pints on a pleasant wednesday evening. I woke up at arround 4:30 in the morning, only to discover that I was still reasonably pissed.
not the best thing considering the fact that I had to get up at 7:15 (first to read the scf forum , then to go to work).
I think thats why I had this peculiar dream (well it was more solving a problem, while being asleep):
I desperately tried to find out the ideal resolution to export an image with SketchUp, an image of myself. I was sure, that if I only exportet myself with a high enough quality (of course I had to switch off anti-aliasing to get such a large image export) and later scaled it down in photoshop I would surely be able to reduce my hangover considerably.
back in that dream it was a really serious problem, finding the right resolution high enough to get rid of my hangover, but without crashing SketchUp...
what is so wonderful about this dream is, that (in my dreams and therefore in my subconscious) I referred to SketchUp as a means to solve my every day problems!
I would be curious, if anyone of you ever had strange SketchUp dreams / nightmares...
if you had: here is the right place to speak about them and (perhaps) to get a psychological explanation
I think this tool should provide two different types of painting.
the mere artistic painting:
the texture spray method:
amazing, the improvement of realism you achieved by texturing the tyres!
the 3D people look prety good. allways wanted some like these. may I ask where you found them?
ps: I reallz like the dark red of the last indigo render
that would be awesome!
a great thing would be a texture spray tool (you chose an image and then spray (for example with 20% pressure, working with an alpha chanel) this texture onto a model.
thus it would be easy to create a machine with nice shiny carpaint and then spray a layer of rust and dirt here and there ontop to make it look used...
@richard said:
Mate firstly we aren't strangers! Like you we are SU users - that makes us mates even brothers (**in some cases almost lovers!!)**hehe!
yeah, especially those without programing skills love the gods of ruby
(who hopefully will master the challenge of a "transform group to component (and find similar)" function. the other way arround already exists... )