If he would just learn Spanish....

Great stuff, how embarrassing for Harman and Rogoff, but leaving Australia out of the equation had to be intentional.
During the GFC, our Govt. threw millions at the economy. And despite the huge increase in the deficit, it worked.
We are one of only a handful of countries who are doing reasonably well. We are being propped up by our mineral exports of course, but most analysts agree that Aust. avoided most of the GFC fallout by implementing 'anti-austerity' policies.

off topic but think-worthy

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That must be frustrating for you. 😄

I know this was more than a year ago but I am curious.....hey Solo!!! Did you find a solution to this enquiry?

@box said:

Strange, I searched for porn and it came back with pages and pages of fishmongers.

OH you mate are "SO WRONG"!!!!! Love it!!!

Amazing, Pete! Great stuff as always. 👍 👍

Have a great week!

_KN

wow, great as usual.
It remembers me a render of Blender. 👍

Hi folks,

I posted a few questions that will help us to understand in which direction to go in our further development.

Please take a look:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=51752

Thanks guys, I got it done, may have been a good thing as I found a couple of issues that I fixed in CAD before creating the mesh.

@solo said:

...tsk,tsk Google! Bing has better maps.

Not everywhere. In my place, Bing map really sucks while Google is bearably average.

Edit: it does not even suck that much. They must have updated it. 😄

He was Dylan but better... I think he was his own worst enemy as it's said. I think he would have been big if he would have given himself to the hollywood lackies. faced the audience and such. However his music was too pure. I don't think he could bring himself to do it. As his daughter said he gives away everything he gets. Music and Money. True artist.

GREAT stuff Pete!!! It will be nice to see the Sketchucation store have a bunch on great content available to see it really humming!! And these are Great content!

@trixta said:

V-Ray for SketchUp. 😄

You can also check V-ray Benchmark results and decide accordingly.

Thanks Solo for alerting us. I didn't have the latest version, and downloaded it. The scripts are a fantastic new tool. Thanks also to David Thoiron for developing and continued improvement of this freeware.

TIG has also some snipsets for this sort of things 😉
(all codes must be on one line in the ruby console!!!

Transform objects of a selection in components!

m=Sketchup.active_model; m.start_operation("Faces>Compos"); n=m.active_entities;m.selection.to_a.each{|e|(g=n.add_group(e.all_connected); g.to_component.definition.name="FaceSet#1")if e.valid? and e.parent==n.parent and e.class==Sketchup;;Face}; m.commit_operation

http://forum.zbrush.fr/index.php?PHPSESSID=4e825ae188c60774366f18ac0035054f&action=dlattach;topic=1622.0;attach=15209;image

Tranform any faces in components

m=Sketchup.active_model; n=m.active_entities; m.selection.to_a.each{|e|(g=n.add_group(e); g.to_component.definition.name="Face#1")if e.class==Sketchup;;Face}

http://forum.zbrush.fr/index.php?PHPSESSID=4e825ae188c60774366f18ac0035054f&action=dlattach;topic=1622.0;attach=15210;image

all faces of a selection are transformed in groups
(except groups or components yet existing)

m=Sketchup.active_model;n=m.active_entities;m.selection.to_a.each{|e|n.add_group(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;Face};

http://forum.zbrush.fr/index.php?PHPSESSID=4e825ae188c60774366f18ac0035054f&action=dlattach;topic=1622.0;attach=15211;image

Ps For be complete
Groups to Components by Thomthom

Rug should be very easy. Be shure to take a good texture and make a nice spec- and bumpmap

@xrok1 said:

good till u get mud or something stuck in there and your balance is thrown off! 😲

@tomasz said:

@xrok1 said:

good till u get mud or something stuck in there and your balance is thrown off! 😲

Kids from a neighborhood would love to help you get the balance "right" with few stones.

These are prototypes to demonstrate the structure. The real versions have side walls. 😉

The honeycomb structure is the later variant of the "Tweel".

@solo said:

The problem I have is many of my programs like render apps have materials mapped to certain drives, if I start changing stuff around I will lose all my texture mapping, so, Is there anyway I can transfer my materials folder (57GB) to a new drive and still keep the paths without having to remap all models again?

Probably best way to handle this is via symlinks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

Example with Thea materials, first backup "C:\ProgramData\Thea Render\Materials". Delete the material folder "Materials". Create junction pointing to a new empty folder (d:\Thea Render\Materials) in other drive. Restore files back to "C:\ProgramData\Thea Render\Materials".
For junction creation start cmd prompt via "Run as administrator". Then change path to C:\ProgramData\Thea Render

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C;\Users\pjl>cd "c;\programdata\Thea Render" c;\ProgramData\Thea Render>

Now create junktion pointing to d:\Thea Render\Materials (Remember to create the new material folder first on d:).

c;\ProgramData\Thea Render>mklink /J Materials "d;\Thea Render\Materials" Junction created for Materials <<===>> d;\Thea Render\Materials

if you are going to use network drivers, then junktion will not work, you must use symlink /D -parameter instead of /J.

c;\ProgramData\Thea Render>mklink /D Materials "x;\Thea Render\Materials"

Where x: is mapped network drive. Or if you prefer UNC paths

c;\ProgramData\Thea Render>mklink /D Materials \\server\Materials