Posts made by SurfingAlien

@tig said:

@pabloparraga said:

Hi Fredo, and thanks for your reply.
I don't understand what should I do. When you say "clean up" you mean deleting the LIBFREDO6 folder and its subfolders?
And then, what should I do? download LIBFREDO again?
Thanks for your help...
No.
Fredo means delete the folder C:/Users/PcCom/AppData/Local/LIBFREDO6_DATA_Dir and its contents.
If it's missing then Fredo's tools recreate the folder and its contents when they next run - if they themselves are installed properly...
Try that and report back...

just to confirm that doing this actually solved a similar issue I was having with both Fredo6's Tools on Surface and Round Corners (but not his other plugins) - SU pro 2018 on win10. thanks folks!

@unknownuser said:

I think 'push/pull' is patented.. but instead of paying multimillion $$ for the name of a tool, they'd probably just call it something else.

exactly... ViaCAD has push/pull like modeling since v.8 and imports SKP files.
still, I spend 99% of my time on SketchUp and 1% on it... LOL

oh my... I so love SketchUp the way it is now (I mean all round: cheap/free, tons of plugins you don't even need to install/uninstall, lots of 3rd party renderers, clean and "generalist" approach... etc) I am also worried as many of you

I am not afraid of the change itself but please don't make it another revit/archicad (for both price and complexity)

I just hope 8.x will still work with all my plugins for a long time in the worse scenario...

...and you should see what my 12yo students can do with it after a few lessons!

@jd hill said:

Just as a shot in the dark, you could try running the licensing application directly; you should find it located @ [plugins]/maxwell/lic/LicenseValidator.app. I suggest this on the strength that, judging from the error message, the application may be having trouble getting permission to write its license file, and that running it directly might help with that.

dear JD,
you nailed it... running the license validator directly did the trick!

thank you,
Alessandro

thank you Jason,

for both the suggestion on displacement-based materials and the materials collection (I saw it on the maxwell forum as well but also noticed the reason why you had to remove the links... so thank you again for giving us - latest SU users - a second chance to get them)

I will try your suggestion asap, just to be sure I've been clear enough: I don't mean a stone wall with normal/displacement maps but "real" micro-displacement (or kind of, don't know the correct terms in MR as I'm a new user) like this one:
http://resources.maxwellrender.com/search.php#page=1&mode=1&id=4658&search=carpet&v1=0&v2=0&tipo=

finally, one last question (sorry, I have registered to the MR forum but I'm still waiting for the admin to unlock my account for posting): when I try to register my copy of Maxwell I get this error:

I had a quick look at the knowledgebase/FAQ section but the only thing I found is about admin privilege (which I own -
I'm on Mac OSX 10.6.8). any idea about it?

thank you in advance,
Alessandro

...just to say I really appreciate this move, thank you Maxwell guys!

of course I already grabbed my 95$ license (who could resist?) and I look forward to produce some decent renders... for the time being I'm doing some tests and I have to agree this is probably the easiest renderer I ever used. love that it's cross-platform and "floating", love that you have free access to all the MX stuff...

and kudos to the "all-plugins-included-for-free" policy of the main Maxwell suite... this is exactly the reason why I have not considered Vray.

cheers,
Alessandro

P.S.: I will post it on the MR forums as well but... is there a way to use displacement-base materials from the MXM repo like grass/fur etc.? I'm getting really weird results regardless of the "mapping" and I don't know if there's some settings I can tweak (of course not the MXM itself, I know...) -thanks!

love the 2Ds specially!

thanks TIG,

of course yours was one of the plugins I was talking about and as you said it works only with single faces.

I will try what you suggested and let you know if I succeed...

cheers,
Alessandro

Hi!

hope it's the right place to ask... I saw different great UV and textures plugins and tried some of them but still have to find one that let me simply do what the built-in texture/position does but with multiple faces. it could be done with UV projections too but I would think there's another way, involving scale/nudge/rotate of multiple faces at once?

I searched using various words but haven't found nothing... sorry if it's been discussed before

thanks,
Alessandro

@gulcanocali said:

Hi Alessandro,

@surfingalien said:

artisan (and eventually tgi3d) is something I'm considerING (ouch!) to buy...

Just FYI, cross section tool mentioned here is available unrestricted in the free Training Edition of Tgi3D SU Amorph.

Regards,

thank you for the info,
I saw it was available in the free training edition (as pilou pointed out)
it was a more general thought about some very well done tools
I'm doing all the "organic" modeling outside SU at the moment (Silo3D and Cheetah3D mainly)

cheers,
Alessandro

thanks for all the additional suggestions,

artisan (and eventually tgi3d) is something I'm consider to buy if I get more serious about SU modeling (I'm using a bunch of modeling tools atm).
1001bit... oh, well I own that one but I forgot it has that feature too

the "lathe" approach is something I used in the past but this time I was looking for a way to quickly adjust an existing component

great community...

cheers,
Alessandro

thank you Tobobo and TIG!

that worked. actually, I cannot say why it didn't worked before (it's the first thing I tried...).
I probably screwed up something... (it's a component inside a group inside...)

cheers,
Alessandro

Hi!
I'm afraid this will be an "oh..." question after seeing your replies but I can't seem to figure it out myself...

is it possible to do (kind of) ringcuts on a circular/conic shape like the one in the attached screen shot?
sorry, hardcore box/subd modeler here...

I tried with Fredo's bevel/round corners tool but it produces unexpected results for the central ring (while it uses to work flawlessly in standard beveling tasks like the top and the bottom)

thank you in advance for any advice
Alessandro

looks very promising!
love the style, simple but very communicative

just a quick note to say I've already answered Gaieus in PM...
(didn't wanna seem unpolite )

Alan and Gaieus,
first a big thank you for stopping by and answering so quickly...

so I tried Gaieus suggestion (yep, I'm a lazy man) and almost got it sorted. I have to admit I had TT UVtoolkit(2) installed already but haven't noticed it could do this kind of trick too (that's the price for having too many plugins, I'm afraid...)

so I accurately followed the instructions and everything went fine to point 4.
unfortunately after Orient Faces some of the tris become transparent and Restoring previous saved UVs doesn't change anything (yes I have payed attention to selections too). I'm wondering if this may depend on my current version of SU (7.1.6859 free) or some plugin incompatibility because the file is exactly the same you used...

however, as Gaieus said, step 2 does the trick for what I need here (just a correct visualization inside SU to arrange the model accordingly - the thatched roof is already set up in my rendering app waiting for the rest of the model).
that said I'm the kind of 3d guy who doesn't like to know there are flipped normals in his model, even if nobody knows or sees, so I will investigate further (probably after the deadline delivery...)

thank you again guys, your help has been amazingly useful

cheers,
Alessandro

Hi!
not exactly a newbie in SU but it's the first time I had to import a mesh... and facing this issue.

I've imported the thatched roof (modeled outside SU on a geometric SU reference) using TIG's OBJimport script (great, btw)
to make it short I tried several export settings (and even 3ds format) an this is the best I can get (see attached image).

as you can see the mesh has been triangulated by the exporter and there's a material issue (the grey tris have the right material and UVs on the back). I'm wondering if there's a quick way to fix it...

I tried with no luck several techniques (included inverting faces, a line of code suggested by TIG in a thread I cannot find anymore - which actually places material on both sides but loosing UVs and this is a custom painted material/UVs with alpha - etc...)

any help very appreciated (file can be downloaded here http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2029627/ThRoof.skp.zip - ~9Mb)...

thank you in advance,
Alessandro

great stuff indeed!
and thanks for sharing those nice textures (never enough good ones...)

this is great, Massimo! just g-r-e-a-t
still waiting for the OSX port of Twilight to have a go myself, BTW

yep the links work fine now (I realized there was something wrong with the whole twilight site yesterday)
I hope the Mac port will come soon because I'm eager to play with TR

thanks again,
A