Yes, I will be putting the blade on some time this week when I get a free moment and I'll let it render over the weekend. I'll post an update when I have it. 😄

Thanks Craig. I have the same story as everyone else..."SketchUp has really done wonders for my career" If only I could corner the market... 😄
Eric, you actually downloaded the animation? HA...wasn't sure if anyone would bite. Yea, its pretty cool and was part of a powerpoint presentation I put together. The final is going to show the final site map and then zoom in to each product location model complex and rotate. However, I was playing around with Google Earth and found out I could import my site map into there and get the same effect, but with a much greater radius obviously. I am going to see about placing my site map and then putting models in. I just don't know how well GE can handle that many models. It's all in testing for now though..hehe.

As for the colors, I was told those are "standard". Even though I'm not in land planning, I do a lot of his graphics and see the same colors over and over again. I looked at your image and tonewise, yea, pretty scary how close they are...haha.

Gosh, I miss this place. Well, I really should get back to work. 😄

@unknownuser said:

I have found the enhanced Vanishing Point capabilities (for applying textures and scaling inserted images into existing 2D exports from SU) and the Smart Objects (think: Photoshop components or blocks) much more useful than the "3D layer" capabilities, however.

Heh...my best friend from Boston is visiting Deb and me this weekend in Boulder. He's the guy who invented Vanishing Point along with another friend. He's a huge fan of SketchUp too! Glad you like it Lewis, I'll let him know tomorrow at breakfast!

Cheers,

@ray brown said:

I wonder what policy the big-time renderers such as Schaller and Gorski follow. Anybody know?

I would venture to say that they use a method using this as guidelines..... but I can't say for sure.
http://www.asai.org/Copyright

This is my first post here. I'm not yet a SU user but I'm building a system that I intend to use for SU:

ASUS A8V Deluxe (non-PCI)
Athlon X2 4200+
2GB DDR400
WinXP

As for my graphics card, I'm limited to AGP. I'm between the HIS X1950 Pro (512MB) and the XFX 7900 GS (256MB). I can't seem to find a 512MB version of the 7900 GS. Both cards are roughly $150 with rebates.

There aren't but a handful of AGP cards more powerful than these two, for example, the 7950 GT. I read today that NVidia has developed a AGP/PCI bridge for the GeForce 8 series and that an AGP version of the 8600 is just around the corner

Back to reality...
I'm thinking I should go with the X1950 PRO simply because it has 512MB. But I read elsewhere here that Nvidia based cards are best for SU. Perhaps this is no longer the case??

Advice would be appreciated.
David

[ginahoy]

@unknownuser said:

TDG4U, what spec machine are you running the renders on? I'm interested so I'll know what kind of times I can expect from various spec machines.

I'm running a Gateway Intel Pentium 4 3.6GHz, 4GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 video card and dual 24" widescreen monitors.

Overall, I've been very happy with it. Been using SketchUp on it since v4.

Adding another small lot massing model.

Enjoy and have a great weekend!
Morrison-Fite Plan 2B.skp