Patrick,

I'll give you my "hacks" method: I "screened" the edges and "soft-lighted" the center (using DC's free "mergency4" plug-in) to quickly give your image the "punch" I look for...but the guru's will surely have better methods

Thanks, Guys, I'll guess one or both of these would work...but I don't understand some of your terms, so I'd better explain better what I'm looking for:

My new 2.5D+ trees are non-face-me components with face-me leaf-bunch components nested within them...so you can rotate the tree (or change the view) and another side of the trunk and branches show (like a real tree, sorta). One (or several copies facing the same way) renders great:

Once a copy is rotated all the nested face-me components render as if facing the same (in relation to the "front" of the outside tree component) as the last copy...below the right copy is rotated 90deg:

...below the copy is made unique, and now both render correctly:

...below the first copy is rotated 60deg, the second an additional 60deg, so the original is rendered as if the leaf pngs are facing away from the camera:

But SU's "make unique" does not make the nested leaf-bunch components unique, only the outside tree component...an obvious advantage, to me at least: so, do either of these ruby's work as I'm hoping?

I guess the Amaryllis belladonna is the real Naked Lady, but around here we've always called these Naked Ladies as well:

Hey Ruby Guru's

Since each copy of a face-me component, especially my new 2.5D+ models when copies are rotated, need to be made unique to render correctly...and since I (and maybe other will) often forget to do that step with each copy: I'd like to find a ruby that will allow me to select all copies of a component then with one click make each copy "unique" to all others.

Is it out there...where?
If not...can some one make such?

Thanks a bunch in advance, Tom.

You guys are all showing your age not knowing this grandma favorite :`)

...just for fun since I didn't want to crash on the new tree sets again this morning, enjoy:

nakedlady.skp

You have do or select something in the SU window to deactivate the materials window...?

Very nice indeed! Thanks a bunch, Andre!

There's a post on the Render[In] forum that says it will be "under $200".

Jan...how about Twilight? That's the one I don't want to screw up!

Does anybody who's installed this have Twilight installed as well? Any conflicts?

This looks very interesting! Anybody know how it will affect other plug-ins like Twilight?

Ouuuuuh...lovely!

Sweet!

Alvis...love it!

Here's a couple of texture pngs that do the trick (got the original chain link from here somewhere, from someone...thanks again, and did some messing with in in PSP to make the net png) very convincing in SU (though no line shadows) and renders well with good shadows:

filter sketch...

Very cool...thanks, Landie!

@marvins_dad said:

Is that a dirigible? :lol: Nice!

Yes, thanks to Starling75 here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=30057&p=263570&hilit=retrofuture_airship#p263570

My Twilight try...

I'm not seein' any change...though maybe because I'm using IE7?