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Hi Renderiza,
Yes, I'm another amateur musician.
Went through pretty much the same process as you - a bit of formal education at school, trombone in the school band etc. that just made me bored and frustrated. I think that's often the case, even for people with far more talent than me - too much concentration on the 'orchestral' style, and too much emphasis on formal 'rules' - not exactly inspiring if you are a youngster wanting to take the first steps to emulating the music that you like on your mp3 player!

Then I discovered "DIY punk", bought a bass the same day my mate got his first guitar, and never looked back. In many languages, we talk about 'playing' music, not 'operating' it or 'constructing' it, and I think that the element of 'play' is exactly what can open doors for people to start exploring music - without feeling self-conscious about their 'skill level'.
And the technology available cheaply now means that this can be in any style of music that floats your boat, or even 'sound design' - a also have a little hobby building VST plugins to make my own sounds to play with.

I don't play for an audience any more like I used to - but it is a shame to only concentrate on what we can present to other people publicly. After a crappy day at work, and too long in front of a PC, there's nothing to beat sticking on a pair of headphones, and disappearing into that "other world" for an hour.
I'm a great believer in Joe Meek's old adage; "If it sounds right, it IS right" - so long as what comes out is communicating a little of what you feel inside, then 'technical perfection' is just one option among many, but not essential. Being able to play 300 perfectly pitched notes a second is no guarantee that the tune will move people emotionally (I love loud guitars, but 10min "shredding" solo's bore me stupid!)

Your YouTube snippets sound pretty good to my ears - way different to my own 'style', but each one definitely has a 'theme' that captures a certain mood. They would fit very nicely as the kind of music used in film, TV and games to set the context of the action.

@unknownuser said:

Why did Google sell SketchUp to Trimble?

Google are moving to automatically generate building for Google Earth - making redundant all the manual labour.

@unknownuser said:

My wish is that the Trimble team will expand the API so that ordinary people like me will make their own tools.

At Basecamp it was emphasized that the API would be expanded. They are even hiring. Good signs. 😄

I think when setting a color to a textured material, the change becomes visible immediately, however the API does not differ between colorizing (checkbox in the materials browser) and color-shifting (pointer on the color wheel).

Assuming you rotate the color wheel of a material A and get material B:
colorize.png
We can then read the color value of B:
` material.materialType

2
color = material.color
Color(200, 147, 62, 255)then reset it to the texture image's original look: material.color = nil
nilThis way we get A. material.materialType
1then trying to set it again: material.color = color
Color(200, 147, 62, 255)
material.materialType
2`
This time it is also colorized (C) and we have no control about it.

Hi,

You entered this giveaway solo which if you translate your name from spanish to english it means 'alone' so congratulations for winning!

Hope your kids enjoy the game! 👍

Note: Sended you a PM explaining how to get the game.

Not Calatrava him-self: he uses Pencils and Brushes! 😎
But surely his collaborators! 😉

first drawings

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4-AoUUQUt-E/Tmei_cUDYyI/AAAAAAAAAUc/Ul_13g0uUgQ/s400/4calatrava.jpg

in reality

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D4ZmAyJDpgE/TmejEwXtsZI/AAAAAAAAAUg/JhR_eQes5Kw/s640/0004.jpg

Preparatory sketch for Wave, 2001. Watercolor and graphite on paper.

http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20120419-sketch.jpg.ece/BINARY/w620x413/sketch.JPG

[pre:2y7rh979]Author:: Renderiza
Plugin Name:: Key Scene
Version:: 1.0.3
Date:: 8/29/2013
Cost:: Free[/pre:2y7rh979]
New KeyScene v1.0.3 is released!

http://s11.postimg.org/4zjzzf7pf/key_dialog.jpg

%(#909090)[Changes:

Added a field at the top that says "Editing configuration for scene <scene name>" so that it was more clear which scene was being modified.

Fixed bug that will appear If you launch without any scenes in the model, that would get this error in the console:
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method description' for nil:NilClass> C:/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2013/Plugins/RND_KeyScene/RND_KeyScene_loader.rb:103:in push_frame'
C:/Program Files (x86)/SketchUp/SketchUp 2013/Plugins/RND_KeyScene/RND_KeyScene_loader.rb:51:in `initialize']

Hola,

Que bueno saber que personas que hablan español visitan este sitio.

Muchas gracias!

Can't see anything... Did you attache it?

I was hopping there was more functions regarding watermarks with the API, maybe in SketchUp 9 who knows. For creating water drops on screen I guess I can still make it work by animating the Scene Manager to desired style.

Thanks

@qqq said:

Looks very fresh and dynamic! How much time did it take for rendering/assembling video?

Each frame was about 4 to 5 seconds and the hole animation I can't remember exactly but it felt like around 6 hours. For video editing I first tried Adobe Premier Pro and I could not make the resolution stay good since it compressed the video too much. On the other hand Windows Movie Maker did not altered the resolution which is good. The time for video editing was really fast no more than 2 hours.

Thanks

Hi,

I was testing the process of screen capturing the animation with Active Presenter and I am not so happy. The resolution setting had to be very low because if not the resulting video would have lagged very bad even though inside SketchUp there was no lag at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RGFwNHLfpo

Renderiza

It worked! 💚

Thank you so much!

@unrealviz said:

Hi, nicely done. What I like are those hand-held shots. They give it a doze of a tension and drama 😄. But I would like to draw your attention to those fast shots at the beginning. They seem just a bit to fast, to chopped. Like chase scene in the accelerated movie from the old times, if you know what I mean!:D

Thanks for the critic I really appreciate it. For the camera controls I think is worth mentioning that I used CStools for C4D.

New version of Resballiza is available!
New Features:

Speed Improvement

Sound effects

Plugin is now a SketchUp Extension

If anyone wants to test the game on both SU 8 and SU 2013 so I can receive some feedback about the performance difference between the two I will be really great-full. Personally I notice SU 8 runs the game little faster but it may be interesting to hear from more people. If you have a software like Fraps that display Frames per second that information is really good to know.

A lot of improvements have been made to the code thanks to the people at Developers' Forum so again thanks!

Hi,

Its been long time since I talked about this but I want to share some new information regarding sound.

My initial goal was to trigger same sound simultaneously and have the ability to overlap sounds without any cutoffs or lag.

Just recently I learned how to make use of HTML5 by adding a the following line on web-dialog <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=10"> and this has opened a lot of possibilities with sound.

Here is a technique that will enable multiple sounds...

On HTML
<audio src="sound.mp3" id="snd_test1" preload>

On Javascript

document.getElementById("snd_test1").cloneNode(true).play()

Note: The above line of code is used every time you want to trigger sound. Also for me the only type of sound extension that is working is mp3...I have tested .swf and .wav so far.

If anyone has any new info about sound and SketchUp please post it here...Cheers!

@chris fullmer said:

Hey, great job! It looks great!

Chris

Chris thank you very much!

Video Update #3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTuhPfFGl9Y&feature=plcp

To download the latest SketchUp game version go here;
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w9m7du0fnhkgwv0/bIqndmMs1S

Thanks

This would be of huge benefit to me right now