Yes it does sound like you could use them in an office project in the ways most of us would use them. If you were going to post a model file here and it was their model, a derivitive, or your own model containing their components, you'd be in violation of their terms of use. Of course you couldn't post to Google's 3dWarehouse, FormFont's Exchange, or try to sell your model either.
Regards, Ross
Lots of cool products there.
Here's what the site says about using their models (The caps are theirs):
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What a great resource Ron! Thanks muchly! Your-da-man!
Sorry to hear about the fire. It is kind-a sad when landmarks are gone. Maybe you can expand the project to model the 'historic' Barrie featuring models of now vanished and almost forgotten buildings from around town.
Regards, Ross
Roger - I agree with what you are saying. The FOV, horizon position, vanishing points, etc. are all tools in our hands that we can apply when we consider what we want to communicate. Once you have a basic understanding of the differences these factors make you are then free to use them to achieve specific intention. I think part of the value of this thread is it can serve to highlight the impact certain choices have.
An interesting thing about perspective is that what the average person perceives as "right" may be quite different than what might be technically correct. When we create any perspective (or photograph) we are trying to communicate something to the viewer. Typically we want them to have some sort of virtual connection to the subject of our image. That virtual connection is strongest when the image does not trigger any "something is wrong" response in the viewer. Perspective drawings and wide-angle photography frequently do trigger some degree of that response.
I attach example images I had posted on the old SU forums. They both show Notre Dame. One is your typical tourist snapshot and the other has had digital 'perspective correction'. What I'd suggest is that most viewers would think the 'corrected' version looks "better". I think this example tells us something important for our work. Our work probably shouldn't be about getting things technically accurate as much as it should be about having them experienced as successfully as possible.
Regards, Ross
The url to the product is http://www.getpaint.net/
I downloaded and have been playing with it for the last couple of hours. Looks pretty good.
Regards, Ross
It was a long way to the kitchen. Boo was a very wealthy man and so like other very wealthy people he lived in a very big house. It was what was expected of wealthy people. It came with the job. Since his house was so big it took Boo nearly twenty minutes to reach the kitchen. There he found his kitchen staff busy making him a feast. He nodded in acknowledgement then said "I'll be in the dining room" and headed that way. Since the dining room was next to the kitchen it wasn't a very long walk but it was a rather large dining room and Boo's favorite chair was at the far end of the table. Eventually he arrived and sat down. His staid butler pushed in Boo's chair and passed him a folded newspaper. Boo went straight to the financial news and was shocked by the headline: "Tea Market Collapse". Boo's face went pale. He...
Gaieus the Hungarian Hit-man. A ruthless mercenary, this Gaieus was not the same Gaieus who earlier was in cohorts with Susan Sorger. This Gaieus was, for reasons unknown, dressed like a Roman Legion Commander. Ross exclaimed "Hey Cesar is my salad ready yet?" and he turned to Martina and said "The service here stinks worse than a Roman sewer. The contemptuous remarks made the Hungarian Hit-man very angry. He raised his sword to Ross' neck and said "I should kill you now pretty boy!". He did not. Instead he proceeded to tell the handsome Ross and Martina why he was there. "I'm here to... "
Where do you live Masta? The studded snow tires here have small metal studs. They make lots of noise when driving on bare asphalt. They do work well to ensure traction when there is ice & snow. We are only allowed to use them in the winter season as they do contribute to tearing up the road. Most people here just use 'all-season' tires, some put on a pair of snow tires (heavier treads than regular tires), and some use tires with studs. When the weather is really bad some of the farmers coming to town will put chains on their tires. (Those chains are really noisy! but are the ultimate in traction).
Regards, Ross
PS - Driving back from the grocery store in the dark was fun. A few stretches of the road had 'white-out' conditions where blowing snow reduces visibility to just a few feet. The new studded snow tires did work well.
Well the real value of the 'paste in place' command is it will paste the copied (or cut) selection in exactly the same xyz position as it came from. In contrast any regular paste or duplication requires you to place the geometries where you want them and sometimes precise placement is difficult.
A real-world example of using paste-in-place is as follows:
Let's say you've modelled a house and used components and groups for major elements. You put all the grouped site & landscape elements on a layer so you can turn it off to see just the house. Upon turning off that layer's visibility you find a bunch of stray lines in the pool deck area are still visible. Shame on you! They are lines that should have been within the group that made up the pool area. Being oriented towards perfection as you are, you decide to fix the sloppy modelling rather than beat yourself up. You select and cut the stray geometries so they are in your system's clipboard. You turn back on visibility of the relevant layer and open the pool area group for editing. Then you use the 'paste in place' function with the confidence of knowing the lines will end up just where they were in xyz space but now within the proper group.
As an aside, I add that because of this feature (paste-in-place) it can make working with the component/group editing feature 'hide rest of model' more practical.
Regards, Ross
Rodentpete is right to point you towards using the 'paste in place' function found in the edit menu. It was a function some of us requested specifically because it would give an easy way to move even complex geometries into existing groups. The developers listened and it was added in Version Six.
Regards, Ross
Hi Bert! Welcome to these forums. I've really enjoyed looking at your detailed images.
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The .skb extension is a backup file created by SketchUp. Changing the extension to .skp is the way they are opened but unfortunately you say that didn't work. The good news is typically files don't just disappear so your original skp file is probably still on your drive somewhere. Try a search and see if you can find it. On a Windows machine you can search for *.skp and it will find all the .skp files regardless of their names. Hopefully you can track your file down and it will still be good. The other good news it is quite rare to have a .skp file get corrupted.
Regards, Ross
PS- Welcome to the forum Sandy!
Hi Maxx! Welcome aboard!
In your honor I'm going to go make myself a cup of Rooibos tea.
Cheers!
It's our first snowfall of the season here. We had a few flurries previously but no real accumulation. Today its snowed maybe 7 to 10 cm so far but the bigger problem is the high winds. There's steady winds of say 40 km/hr with gusts to 80km/hr so the snow is forming drifts.
I have to venture out now and do some grocery shopping. Thankfully my bride had studded snow tires installed on the car last week.
Regards, Ross
Wow! You've really managed to make those colours scream! Hot-hot-hot! If I was walking down the street I'd certainly take notice --- and I'm sur the impulse to go in for a treat would take over!
I like what you've done very much. I particularly enjoy how much graphic punch you've coaxed out of the renders.
Regards, Ross
With regards to the people cut-outs, in my own work I generally avoid them; however, in these renderings I find they work exceptionally well. I find here that the way they read as "cardboard cut-outs" is suited to the bold graphic character of the renderings.
Regards, Ross
Hi Ivan -- Welcome to these forums!
I'm no expert but I think I'm correct in noting that SketchUp can only offer OpenGl options based on what your card will support. If you switched cards you most likely would see different options available. Typically there's nothing you can do to get your card to offer up additional options.
If you are willing to get a new graphics card you can get one that will offer you antialiasing. The card doesn't need to be an expensive one to get you more options and better performance. I have an inexpensive card based on a Nvidea chipset and it gives me 4x antialiasing and reasonably good performance. My card is a GeForce 6200 with 128mb of memory. You can pick one up for under 50 bucks.
Regards, Ross