I noticed this in the SU help about Photomatch

@unknownuser said:

Barrel distortion typically comes from wide angle lens cameras, and users should use a third party product to eliminate it from images prior to using them within SketchUp. All cameras have a little bit of this distortion, typically worse around the edges of the image, and we have a simple tool for compensating for this visually.

In Photoshop, would that mean using the Lens Correction tool? Or is there other tool to use?

And don't I risk warping the image so Photo Match doesn't really work? Since cropping an image affects Photo Match...

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I've submitted the bugsplats I got, I figured I'd send the model as well. Like you, I could not reproduce it from scratch. I tried with a simple box and had one of the lines right over the edge of the box, as it did in the model. But SU didn't crash. So whatever it is with that model that causes it, I can't manage to isolate it. Could be a compound of things causing it.

But SU doesn't detect any errors in the file, so I'm stomped there as well.

And then there's the issue where it doesn't always produce a bugsplat.

I'll be submitting the problem a little later. I'm also somewhat busy atm.

Thanks for verifying the problem and supplying a workaround. I'll try it later.

Thanks. I'm currently working with a model that keeps crashing when I Drape and sometimes it doesn't give a Bug Splat, SU just disappear. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7626

I wanted to send a proper bug report about this instead of just a random comment on the forum.

So there is no official channel to contact support?

I was looking at the SU support page and I couldn't find any way of emailing SU supprt. Only found FAQ and forums.

Is there no way to formally submit a bugreport? I've used the bugsplat feature in SU when it appears, but I've never gotten any replies from them. And what if I want to submit an example model?

I got another model that crashes with Drape now.

Some times I get a Bug Splat, some times just a general errorbox message, some times SU just disappear without a trace.

I've attached the component I'm working with. (all though, the same thing happened when I tried to do the very same in another component)

In the model you'll see two lines above the mesh, it's these two I try to drap onto the mesh below in order to make the lines slice through the mesh.

One line is right over the edge of the roof, another is offset 500mm inwards the roof. The one offset inwards drape fine. It's the one right above the roof edge that causes the crash when i try to Drape.

Any ideas? This drape problem is really getting annoying now.

Et6 - H3.skp

@jackson said:

@thomthom said:

On a sidenote, I just tried the latest V-Ray servicepack RC and changes done to the scene in SU now automatically reflect what V-Ray will render. No more need to update the V-Ray sky every time manually.

Yeah, except that the VRay service release messes up the UV mapping scale of my existing SU files- I've had to revert to the previous version.

Did you try with the latest? It's not on the website, but I got an email from them with a download link asking for people to try a build they'd prepared.

I got it close enough for it's purpose. Was hard to adjust it as the end perspective points where far far out to each side. Boxing up some of the nearby buildings helped adjusting the positions.

Yea, the slider is incorrect until the date is updated. And I've also experienced that everything was completely off. It turned out that for some reason the timezone for the scene had changed to GMT+7 instead of GMT+1 as it should be.

As you said yourself, very odd that there hasn't been more complaints about this. Is espesialy annoying for light study models.

On a sidenote, I just tried the latest V-Ray servicepack RC and changes done to the scene in SU now automatically reflect what V-Ray will render. No more need to update the V-Ray sky every time manually.

Has anyone inserted matched an SU model to a Pictometry/oblique photo such as the Birds Eye view from maps.local.live?

So when I activate that scene it'll then use the camera viewport of the previous scene?

I often have files which contain several options to a project. I set up scenes with the different layers toggles to display different combinations. However, sometimes I need to adjust the camera and I want all the scenes with the different options to have the same camera position.

Is there a way I can copy the camera position from one scene to another scene so taht I don't have to recreate all the scenes every time I need to adjust the camera?

The whole model is rather big. It's an old model that's quite messy. I haven't had time to clean it up.

I have been able to do my work, as I just recreated it by eye. But I'd thought I'd mention it here on the forum to hear what other people has experienced with the drape tool.

I'll see if I get time to isolate just the troublesome geometry and post just that. Need to finish off some work first.

It's very few lines. It is just a small modification of the path of a sidewalk. It only takes about 1-2 sec for it to crash.
Is there a way to submit a bug report and include sample files?

I got a model where I was trying to drape some lines into the terrain. However, every time I try to drape it, SU crashes. I don't get the normal Bug Splat window, the SU window just disappear into thin air. Two times I got the MS crash window.

I'd like to add that it's very annoying that the manual resizes the browser windows when it opens. I always have my browser open and the SU help opens up in the existing window and moves it about.

I second this suggestion.

I just saw this post on the SketchUp blog about simulating reflections in SU http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2008/02/time-for-reflection.html

Easily replicated in PhotoShop, but still a nice trick.

In this particular case it looks like just a noisemap, wouldn't it work to apply the texture, non-projected, to each face?