Hi All,

im doing a project where i need to make top view section cuts of a apartment complex. First of all im no newbie to SU and know all the basics and intermediar basics of SU. Problem is i havent worked with section cuts that much.

My question is about excluding certain objects of a section cut. I dont think it's possible as i cant find any thing about it. Perhaps one of you guys know some tricks.

I would like to still see the palm trees and some other models. My idea was to place them above the active section cut, but you get double geometry in the scene, which is already pretty heavy for SU

See attached images as example

Greetz,

Rombout

will you make a tut on how you achieved this? would be very nice if so

thanks! they look great

wow that script you made look promising

wow dude that last shot is superb

Alex Romax does model a lot in his scene, he also does a lot of post-pro-ing to set a extraordinary mood

im trying to do this trick on the side of this mesh i made, its a magazine. I did to pull trick of earlier but know when i try cant get the texture to follow the quads no more. if i tell it know to fit the quads it turns 90deg. the preview is how it was but when i apply this to a new model the trick doesn't work any more

*edit, just checked if i started from scratch again it actually does work. i copied the top part and than reconnected all pieces again by hand making the faces. When i than apply fit to quads i does work again

did you win?!?! this scene is awesome, bumped into it cause i was looking for some bookmodels!!!
damn your 2 are great models and textures!!!!

pS can we use all the models where ever and when ever?!

@charly2008 said:

I give it up now. Now the plugin is working again. But now some leaves are again transparent and others not. I probably do not understand the workings of this plugin. I'll wait for an update.

Charly

THat's due to the prob that 2 images arent transparent png's open these to in a image editor and make them transparent and than re-import them into SU

I do have a couple of those installed as well. But I think it due to the sketchy physics, I installed this lately and before that it was always working. But I got it to work again after changes to lines of code (see tomasz's tips) there's one doneside on that. I hardly renders leaves know!? So I think I need to take a closer look now.
What's also weird is that io never got your version to work in iether su7 or 8, I would only work in su6.

@oxer said:

@rombout said:

how come for a lot of peeps the 0.6.3 versiion does work?
on the mac i doesnt do anything, no feedback no nothing?!

Hi Rombout,
Try this version, works for me on Mac OSX 10.6.7 and SU 8.
Keys on Mac:
Click where you want the Ivy to start grow.
Cmd+Click : Make the ivy grow towards the mouse position.
Alt+Click : Grow Ivy leafs.
SHIFT+Click : Finish Ivy.
Keyboard 'i' : Start over.

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He this version wont work no more for me any more. I did how ever did some updates on some plugins so think i need to do a reload step by step and see which one it is

Hi tomasz,

on the mac the popup window of ivy generator shows and than immediately hides again on the mac, su6 and 7
Here's the code from SU7

Error; #<NoMethodError; undefined method `to_array' for Pdn;;LiveIvy;;Parameters;Module>
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;58;in `register_callbacks'
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;58;in `call'
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;58

Hi there,

i want to use SketchupPhysics with a curved object but SS keep looking at it as rectangle object. DO i need to assign a convexhull or is there a different trick to make the object respond better.
As you can see in the screengrab there are still gabs between the meshes

i cant find a option to make quads of a selection?!

Here's my quick render!

im i need of some good textured SU palms, came across these great images, would or could you share these???

@silver_shadow said:

@chavinskee said:

@silver_shadow said:

here you go

(www.box.net)

12 panel each one is a A1 sheet.So the presentation was quite a huge board

w w! superb images! how did you render the elevations in vfsu?

you choose an elevation in sketchup, no perspective..set up the shadows and make sure you got the new vray installed and render it using the default camera

could / would you share that link one more time, i want to have sneak peak at em

whats the setting for that water.... really love that caribbean feeling to it! you nailed it in my eyes, perhaps the sand waves look better with a bit more shaper wave pattern on the tops

@honoluludesktop said:

Wow, how did you reflect the windows on the floor?

Think that one is pretty easy in PS or GIMP. copy the background flip vertically blur en blend with the groung

WOW! so great... great renders as well... even with the outdated kerkythea! you should try thearender, musch easier and more features