@tobobo said:

Ummmm..... I will keep thinking on it though.

Thanks Toby to try by your way (even if what Gaieus says give us very few chance)

@anssi said:

\.... If that is so, you had better reverse them before applying materials, especially if you intend to render the model with some external rendering software...//

Ansi you are completely right. I always draw in this grey-blue back face, which is taking the light better than white one in order to observe the shapes. But i have forgotten the rendering issue. Thanks for this yellow paper.
simon

Hey Rick !
Great to get a reply from you.

@rickw said:

It "might be possible" in ruby, by going into each group/component and applying the texture to the faces inside.

I'm afraid i have to understand the same time:" It may be not possible ".

Each of us works with components to make the skp files light, save CPU, and take benefit of component's behavior.
At the end, we can't apply material and textures easily ..
Really hope this SketchUp improvement will interess you enough to work on it. simon

Request posted on SCF < Ruby Discussions < [Reqwrapping projected material on multilevel component]
...wait, hope and see
simon

@unknownuser said:

\...Maybe could we throw a (new) bottle to the sea to our great hard-worker-Ruby-makers!! to fix this missing possibility...//

SCF ‹ Newbie Forum < How can i wrap texture on a multilevel component ?

simon

@gaieus said:

"..// - I have been formulating a full feature request about this /- - -/ Indeed, wrapping projected material unfortunately works only on "primitives" (raw faces and curved surfaces), not on groups/components..\

It is certainly a missing function, especially if our working method is based on converting any element as component in order to manage them (See Aidan Chopra "Modeling Smart" at 3D Basecamp).

Maybe could we throw a (new) bottle to the sea to our great hard-worker-Ruby-makers!! to fix this missing possibility..

So,"Dear Ruby writters, we are waiting for you !!" ;-)simon

Hi SCF companions,

A question i havn't found answer: How can i use Position Texture Tool and how can i project this texture on a complex multilevel component drawing ?? Without doing it component by component or alternatively after have exploded it ??
Video explanation:
[flash=460,367:3nno45er]http://s274.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/videos/ProjectMaterial_B.flv[/flash:3nno45er]
. .

simon.

And to close this "Summer Work", maybe it will be finding in this vast assembly some of our talented artists interested in making their way a smart rendering of it..

(something that neither I nor my poor PC are able to do.)

With hope this long work has brought some fun and learn to some,

:-)simonlebon

Thanks Gaieus, nice comment, simon

Dear Max,
Clever and instructive explanation.
And certainly a very useful tool. (i have fought some time ago with that spiral shape and haven't found in this time such a tool

)

;-)simon

Dear Gaieus,
I made this way, with a basic circle as a group and simple lines to refer on tools craftsmen were using in those times: ruler, T-square and compass, but no measuring instruments.

I made this way in mind to walk through there footprints. And i've drawn the canvas, just close to, to shaw with fun the idea was right.
I'm going right now to be extremely accurate to made the entire carved as shown in my avatar picture...

Going now to work on the next video, Simon.

Goodmorning sketchy fellows. Jeudi 07 Août 2008

I'm on the road again.. for the "Central Panel" summer work.

My purpose is trying to deliver here a near of day by day step by step videotut.

For today i begin slow with just the challenge presentation: those two pictures.


_ _


As i was watching it very acurrately, i felt very surprised to discover that this panel certainly belonged to an older (very older?) furniture. Not only the different veining of the wood, but the carved work is more refined craft, and more damaged. We can therefore imagine that the entire buffet was built around this recovered sculpture. This gives it an additional price to my eyes.

If someone is tempted by the exercise, here's the needed zip pictures pack.


Britain Kiki.zip

Tomorrow (hope to): find the hidden geometry

:-)simonlebon

Hi Mike,
It's too late for tonight, and i'm living early in the morning for 15 days without web access

I have understood your clever layer use, but i'm still not understanding the animation of your just one evolutive figure.. be back in 15

Regards simon.

Hi Mike,
My question is not on the making holes tut itself but rather on how you made:

• to have those text explanations written on the bottom independantly from the animations
• to have only one figure, evoluting from scene to scene

??? " le résultat est vraiment pas mal!!!"

Simon.

Hi Nick,

Here is a very good post dealing with this issue
Cutting angles into the edges of a complex curved shape

In addition, you can use with a certain advantage this PathCopy v.2.1 by Rick Wilson, whose erratic behavior and difficulty of use unfortunately slowing a little its interest. (see: Copying Along A Path _ Cycle Bridge WIP

;-)simon

Sinon, dans un même ordre d'idée, il y a aussi le crayon a dessiner des lignes guides de Jim Foltz: un petit outil vraiment impec dont je me sers tout le temps.

Construction Line Tool / Jim Foltz

*simon

A tulip of course. A Beautiful tulip with thorns. Thx dear Mario for sharing this nice exemple. i'm going to exercise myself with it tomorrow!! ;-)simon

Dear Mario,

Do you really draw this rose with S&S ? If so, would you be kind enough to share the process?

:-)simon

Pas mal pas mal!

Tu peux masquer les lignes indésirable en les selectionnant puis clic droit=menu contextuel, puis clic/masquer. Mieux vaut faire ce nettoyage à la toute fin du dessin.
:-)slb

Bonjour Tarzan, bienvenue à bord.

Pilou m'a devancé pour t'expliquer qu'il y a toujours 20 manières d'arriver au même résultat avec SketchUp.
Voici donc ma première tentative de video d'explication. En espérant que cela puisse t'aider dans tes premiers pas avec SU. Lignes Parallèles

;-)simonlebon

I Have made a compare test upon various softs to establish the better way to make tutorials

Here:How can i record a video tutorial for YouTube

;-)simonlebon