what a fantastic render! I am very impressed. Your clients must go nuts when they see it.

yup the reboot solved the problem. Thanks, should have thought of that.

EEK! well I'm pretty grateful that my mouse problem isn't that bad. I am lothe to throw away my mouse that has worked very well for me for 2 years.

Anyone else know how I might solve this?

I am using a microsoft intelliMouse Optical mouse. It has 4 buttons and a wheel. I have my side buttons set to push/pull and line. I just opened SU pro 6 and all of a sudden these buttons don't work like they have for over a year. When on explorer I have them set to forward and back and this still works. Under preferences>shortcuts they are still listed as they should be but they just don't work. I have closed and reopened SU and no change. I am running XP home SP2.

Any ideas about how to fix this?

anyone know the origin of the "stone" as a unit of measurement? I love this kind of factiod.

knowing dominos I bet it doesnt resemble steak or pizza But that's just my food snobbery coming out.

I myself went from gymnastics to soccer to Tae Kwon Do (brown belt). About 6 years ago I joined a circus troup that has social activist roots and love it. Think Cirque du Soleil vs. Barnum and Baily. I do a lot of aerial acrobatics on fabric, trapeeze, and lyra (metal hoop about 3' in diameter). I also do partner acrobatics, stilts, fire eating, poi, and fire breathing.

I'm the only one in the troup that isn't a full time professional performer so I don't have time to perform out of state (NM), but the rest of my troup performs all over the world. In the last 6 months we had performances in Miami(FL),India, France, Australia, and are heading to Venezuela this week. So if the building market ever tanks I always have a backup life as a circus performer waiting.

What I like about your presentation the most is your contrasting use of color and B&W. I find that some designers get swept away with making the design output be the focal point. Amazing renders, watercolor effects etc. that look beautiful as an image but are not calling attention to what the client should be looking at. I am assuming that what is in color is what is being remodeled. Nice work.

Not sure exactly what you are asking but one way to create a texture similar to what was posted would be to use a component. Create a pie shaped component and add the desired texture. Rotate the texture as to match your photo. Then ctrl+rotate it to copy it around a single point. If you wanted it as one texture you would have to export the image of this model as 2D and then reimport as texture.

Thanks much Didier! I will use this one for sure. I also always appreciate your generosity.

This site has some large packages of tilable textures. Nice stuff, check it out:
http://www.openfootage.net/?cat=10

So what are we supposed to smoke before we try this?

It seems like asking for some credit is a very reasonable position. I would try to contact the person who posted it and ask for a credit note. If they refuse or ignore then contact Formfonts and explain the situation and what you would like to see done. Good luck.

I think you just want to change .zip to .skm

But I have never done this before so give that a try. Or just download the entire material bonus pack. There are some goodies in there.

Well looks like that worked Gai. I suppose you need to put these in your materials folder (I also have a subfolder named fencing) and changed the .zip to .skm

thanks for working on the file extension change Gai

Fencing_Iron.zip

Fencing_Iron2.zip

Fencing_Diamond_Mesh2.zip

I know this isn't the basis of your concern but I just thought I would throw it out....

Currently ethanol production is not very green at all. The majority is produced from corn but the hidden part of the equation is that corn uses so much fossil fuel to fertilize and harvest that using ethanol is the same as using oil. This is the cover story in current issue of National Geographic.

I commend you on considering the ethics of what work you take. This is one of the most important things we can do. Thank you for reminding us all that it's never "just a job".

Congratulations! Spend as much time as you can with her, all else is extra. She is beautiful.

I think these come with the materials bonus pack:

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(sketchup.google.com)

I tried to upload but for some reason the forum doesn't allow .skm file extension. Seems odd since this is a sketchup forum. Could any moderators explain why this is?

I think you will need to create actual geometry with holes in it to cast a broken shadow. The translucent materials cast no shadow. And a mixture of translucent and opaque casts full shadow.

Perhaps try a regular metal texture on a surface with many holes. I think this may be the only way to get the effect you want. But I could be wrong.

What shape perforation are you looking for? Have you tried scaling some of the fencing materials since they have a mixture of translucent and opaque?

I'm not sure if you are trying this but it doesn't look like a texture can cast a broken shadow.