So it is, slightly under whelming but very tempting at the same time. Could cover the cost of my shiny new indigo license

I remember there was a hack to make applications embed Mozilla engine instead of the IE engine. But I'm not sure if it still works. There was some possibility for incompatibility as well.

i like the clay stile with some colors

I saw that on the news last night...but at 10p a page for out of print or out of copyright books; for the price of a couple of such books you could buy an e-book reader and just download the text from Project Gutenberg.

My whites never go higher than RGB 220,220,220...(in any render engine). The fryrender one cleared up after 5 hours, but I admit that I prefer Indigo's color bleeding much more. Fry: Pure sky [image: fry-sky.jpg] Fry: Sky + sun....Fire flies [image: fryrender-sun.jpg] I always have the feeling that Fry is faster because it has more bias? The Indigo output clearly has more bleeding and color depth going on, as if the light bounces of several times more.....at the expense of longer render time? As a side note: In Indigo, having the option to control sun and sky seperately should be implemented. In other words, the direct sun light should get its own 'layer' to blend.

Gtalk and Skype are my limit, for people I need to actually contact from time to time. I can't be bothered with Facebook, Linkedin, or any of that other stuff which would seem to expand your contacts exponentially.

@remus said: close your eyes tim Opened up the power supply for a little poke around and found the spring thats meant to hold the fan blade in tension was loose. Swapped it for an old fan i had lying around and all is well again. Oh, well spotted. I completely forgot to mention fan noises. I had a 'wind tunnel' powermac for a while. Perhaps that experience made me want to completely forget forever anything to do with fans...

Well, here in the US we wouldn't want someone to find a new band they like without first having to pay through the nose to test their music.

In your example e = edge... there are several ways of doing everything in Ruby... edges.each{|e|e.erase! if e.valid?} # is the same as... edges.each{|edge|edge.erase! if edge.valid?} # is the same as... edges.each{|edge| if edge.valid? edge.erase! end#if } So 'each' of the 'edges' - called 'edge' (or whatever) is processed in turn inside the {}: 'edge' as a variable doesn't survive outside of the {} unless you declare it outside of them later... It's become something of a standard to use |e| as 'entity'... However, whatever text is inside the the || it is used as the variable you are interested in. It CAN be anything 'legal'... Sketchup.active_model.entities.each{|e|puts e.typename; puts "the next entity..."} here 'e' is the same as 'entity' Sketchup.active_model.entities.each{|entity|puts entity.typename; puts "the next entity..."} I comes down to choice and clarity - if you use it briefly the 'e' might be fine, if 'e' is drifting about many lines of code later, then you might have prefer it to have been called 'edge' or something clearer... mats=[];Sketchup.active_model.materials.each{|material|mats.push(material.name)} mats.each{|e|puts e} ...

Hi, There is another good link on that page. Take a look at the "The 10 Best Political Videos You've (Probably) Never Seen" Or click on this link: http://digg.com/d1okUR Regards Mr S

This lamp is full of surprises. Quite nice, well done. Chris

Well... My dad used to say... "Never trust rumours..."

@remus said: Hmm, I wonder if it would be possible to use transformations that don't destroy the model, but just make it hard/annoying to edit thinking smilie I think the hard thing would be finding a suitable transformation that can't be fixed using another ruby. Instead of rotating individual vertices, rotate whole connected geometry. Throwing everything slightly off scale is annoying as hell. Whenever I get a model where a model where everything is like that (usually based of some AutoCAD drawing) it makes me curl up under my desk and rock back and forth sucking my thumb.

OK, thanks again.

Here are two other examples of FreeForm gone bad...[image: TUrZ_the-dancing-house-1.jpg][image: WXSk_the-crooked-house-2.jpg]

Good fun

There is no IQ test for Criminals. We have Nimrods who write demand letters on the backs of their own business cards, checks or phone in bomb threats on their Caller ID phones! What is really interesting is that if you total up the average haul from a bank job and divide that by the number of hours that person spends in prison for the crime, he ends up making about 35 cents and hour. I think I read that somewhere. Morons.