I have been here trying to download the objloader.rb and I cannot save it. When I click on it it just the code I think.

I need to get a model from Maya into SU. Any other suggestion.

It has been standard that I cannot sign any of the work I do for my full time employment or own the copyright because I am employed with benefits and do my work using the tools provided to me by my employer. As for the freelance work I do, I definitely place my "John Hancock" (signature) on it!

The Graphic Artists Guild stated under Work-For-Hire. "Work-For-Hire" is a provision of the U.S. copyright Act intended as a narrow exception to the general rule that the artist or author who actually creates the work owns the copyright to it. The provision confers initial authorship and ownership to the employer or other hiring party who commissions the work, leaving the artist with no rights whatsoever. While such a result may be justifiable in a traditional employment setting, the freelance artist, considered to be an independent contractor for all purposes except copyright, has no access to employee benefits that may compensate for the loss of that copyright and future earnings it may represent.

Under the law, a work made for hire can come into existence in two ways: an employee creating a copyrightable work within the scope of employment; or an independent contractor creating a specially ordered or commissioned work in one of several categories, verified by a written contract signed by both parties and expressly stating that it is a Work-For-Hire.

An employed artist is usually defined as one who works at an employers office during regular business hours on a scheduled basis, is directed by the employer, and works with tools supplied by the employer. (More importantly, an artist is considered an employee if he or she is entitled to employment benefits and has taxes withheld from his or her paycheck.) (Graphic Artist Guild Eleventh Edition Pricing and Ethical Guidelines).

Well, that took me way to long to write, man I'm slow. I hope that helps and doesn't create more confusion.

I have always loved building and making things from a very young age. My father was an iron worker for close to twenty years. My father loved to work on cars and build stuff, so with that I was always doing the same. My father always had my brother and I helping him fix something, build something, or make something, which helped us become very good with are hands. While growing up and learning to be very handy and knowing how to use various tools I was at the same time very interested in drawing. and wanted to draw and design things. I would always design new shoes for some reason, I liked shoes.

Along the way a neighbor across the street from me got an Apple 64 that came with about 100 different games to play and I would spend a lot of time over there playing games and learning a little bit about computers. After that I was so fascinated with the computer, and that fascination has never gone away. I took graphic arts in high school for two years and just loved designing a graphic on the computer and then running it through the screen printing process to make t-shirts.

Believe it or not, I studied Criminology in college and received my BS with an emphasis in law. All along the way I took a lot of design classes. About two years into college I was hired to help in whatever way I could, design and produce theme parks and water parks and lots of other types of attractions. I have been doing this work ever since (over 5 years ago) and loving every minute of it. I'm definitely living a dream, whatever you do don't wake me up!

Now thats cool, like Tom said, having your name in the magazine is huge! Nice work.

I must say that all the extremely nice comments are pleasant to hear. "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem
your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.
–George Washington

I'm in good company!

I could not love the nice comments more, puts a smile on my face, I am as proud as punch Mike.

rhankc: Your right about not being perfect but trying, trying is the key and the important part of that. I may add that part. "Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it; although, don't forget to continue striving for it" Something like that. That might sound corny. Ahhh, oh well. I better get out while I'm ahead. Thanks again everyone.

4 of my renderings were placed in the Super Series Baseball magazine along with an article about the project. I'm flattered! You can check out the post on my blog. http://www.harrisvisual.com

Thanks Boofredlay. All the images on my site were created by yours truly. The baseball Vilage is still a WIP. I really want to get back to creating some pure SU images, no post work. I have been itching to for a while now.

Ya your right, really it's not to out of the ordinary. The Quonset huts are for the players that will be staying for the week long camp. You can check out there info at http://www.worldbaseballvillage.com

I really appreciate all the comments, very very nice of you all.
Gaieus: Ya, there are a lot of baseball fields bunched together, that's for sure. I really don't know if this is normal either. I look forward to continue chatting with you all.

I was just informed by Susan Sorger that the Sketchucation forumas are the place to be. She's right, I have been lurking around for a little bit and I like what I'm seeing, very nice. To start I'll post a couple recent images I created using Sketchup & Piranesi. You can check out other works of mine at http://www.harrisvisual.com and feel free to leave any comments there. I try my best to keep it updated frequently.

These 2 images were not given the proper love and care i would have liked to give them, but not given enough time.

Wow! This is some cool stuff. I'm so amazed at what people can do with Sketchup. I can hardly wait for this new version.

What a find, I downloaded 5's trial version weeks ago and dreamed of being able to have it. I downloaded 3 and then received the Key right away, I'm very exited. Thanks Gaieus!

I never thought I would see the day. This is wonderful and very cool. I remember many moons ago reading threads that talked about lighting in sketchup, many many moons ago.

Keep up the good work Adam.

Very cool stuff!

Very nice. I like it. You have done some good work here.

That's my kind of attitude, a good one. Well, I look forward to more of work.

You sure have done Sketchup proud, these are very nice Mateo. Such a nice model.

Sorry to hear that Joe, were you able to see the architects design? I'd be real curious to see what it looked like.

Download finished and it works now, wow Joe, that looks great. The 3D PDF is very effective. This is a very nice way to show designs to clients or anyone for that matter. I'll have to try this out. Thanks Again Joe. Look forward to your next design.