yes per request of Gaieus in another thread, he said it was screwing up the forum views for people when the image was too large... over 800 wide... so to insert it, it will have to be under 800 pixels... sorry... like I said, sometime in the near future we may have html... then we can have some fun... I like the roof slate... when I was younger, 12 to be precise... I lived in a concrete roofing tile factory, yes lived in... but anyway, the shapes and styles of the roof remind me of that material... this kind of stuff http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/tps/roofingexhibit/asbestos4a.htm

Thats so cool Tom. I have many self made trees that I have in 'clip-map' form, I never use .png as they are currently not recognized in Podium, however with the new V2 coming out soon that will support it I have started converting some so as to be ready for beta testing. I have some great trees that are like a zillion MB that I have posed in another app and rendered them from many different angles so that I can extract the alpha map perfectly and create crisp .png's from them. The advantage to doing this is I can take a tree like for an example a Magnolia and render 4 different rotated views of the same tree and make 4 different .png's from that tree, one can then use 4 different 'billboards' in mass creating a forest or mass of the same species without getting a pattern and it all seems so natural. Like the pink blooming tree above, I have 3 other views of it that can be placed next to each other without looking duplicated.

Will- thanks for making me feel better- it's so seamless, I was baffled at first as well! Tom- I'm just dipping my toes in the market, but your price seems extremely fair. I guess the better question is, how did the client respond to the work and the price? Dave

i second that, tom. it felt like a brief maintenance break. some people could learn from coen and co....

Wow, Remus! (and way beyond my knowledge and especially my comfort level) Hopefully I won't have to resort to such on my own...interesting read though, wish I felt spry enough for such play more often, I think I'd jump on this :`) Thanks for hanging with me on this guys...I had the image of hobbling a young thoroughbred for an aging jockey sticking in my mind's craw. But some searching for 64-bit apps this weekend I found there are precious few trained to sit my new beast...and all are well out of my stable's budget. So I guess I'll let it go and install the 32-bit XP...hoping I don't have a nag by the time the software catches up to the hardware. Best, Tom.

Sorry, been putting off the move fix...here ya go now, though.

I too have been plagued by the black screen just recently. Downloaded new drivers and followed all the advice from google as above to no avail. Then scotts post reminded me that Id installed a new m/soft mouse months ago. The task manager showed that ipoint loaded at start up, I've disabled it and http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/posting.php?mode=reply&f=72&t=5418# voila! No change to mouse behaviour either. Thanks, and thank god for the forum. baz

James...you crack me up (should I be charging for the peepshow :`) I can't post the file 'cause it was a freebee on some entourage image site, and I really can't remember which one...really...honest. But some searching should hook you up. Best, Tom. (I will admit, since I teased you, I use her as a scale reference building growies I think for your same reasons for liking her. I made her 5'-6" for my eye height and can then put the horizon on the top of her head for reference...that's my story and I'm stickin' with it!)

lapx, here's a few of the pieces and parts I used to compile the new image (copied from the original or a subsequent generations). The two main buildings were massed from the original, one with the center section cut out, the other with a center added in the other direction. The details were either built from stuff similar to the "bridge" pieces shown, or painted with the clone brush...lots of touchup after all was in place. The fence I did with photomatch in SU because vector drawing in PSP would have taken me a lot longer...only had to fudge the wierd perspective once in SU. The fence was brought into PSP in three layers (cut behind the rest where appropriate): the shadows burned, the fence multiplied, and the posts normal but transparent...then again lots of touchup. That help? Best, Tom. [image: ~KBIrenderTut.jpg] [image: KBIfenceSUweb.jpg]

Cool, Phil...the wood grain and countertop texture is dead-on! Hope we get some more model/real postings here...thanks for sharing, Tom. Side note: the other surprise on mine was the coolness of the built brick used...I spent hours (beyond the billing!) trying to get the brick texture just the right shade of "warmer!" orange for my client :~b

Tom, I was reading an article on Ralph Rapson (sp?) last night, talking about his sketches. Don't know what it was about them, but they made me think of your work. Dave

Yeah, I also saw it! (posted in the "membership growing... topic!) You're fast Tom!

Well, we can start counting down: 999

Edson, So sorry to hear you were indeed so closely involved with this awful event. Unbelievable sudden sadness...? The initial news report here indicated hydroplaning was the culprit. The new runway wasn't sawcut to limit this (as many around the world aren't), and it was 700' shorter than the 7,000' considered minimum for the aircraft type (as many around the world are also). They showed (on our PBS) evidence the pilot tried to steering the plane into the grass without success (I understand many airports provide concrete crash bunkers to slow the plane quickly and contain the damage...supposedly saving the passengers as well). Unfortunately we won't hear anymore about this unless there is more awful news, so please keep us posted on what develops if you can. My best, Tom.

That is some really skillful flying, it most be so hard to control a model plane like that.

yes per request of Gaieus in another thread, he said it was screwing up the forum views for people when the image was too large... over 800 wide... so to insert it, it will have to be under 800 pixels... sorry... like I said, sometime in the near future we may have html... then we can have some fun... I like the roof slate... when I was younger, 12 to be precise... I lived in a concrete roofing tile factory, yes lived in... but anyway, the shapes and styles of the roof remind me of that material... this kind of stuff http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/tps/roofingexhibit/asbestos4a.htm

It is there, Tom - "called" like "Image sizes" now.

You're a great artist Tom, the colours are very easy on the eye. It looks like a very large project, can you tell us more about it? At first glance your 'wharf theme' with the fountain looks a bit like a sewage outlet marker bouy with bell Then again you may have a different system of beacon and bouyage in your neck of the woods. The degree of list on it shows that there is a fairly strong current in that area. Can you tell us where it will be situated if approved? Thanks for sharing Tom, I think this is the place to be to see different achitecturel ideas from other parts of the globe. Thanks Tom, Bill.

Actually Tom, What the fox hat on your head?

I've been using a tablet for about 4 years and i love it. I've got 2 small children and they love to paint with them too. I saw an article on CGarchitect.com about Wacom coming out with a new product called Bamboo. This new product is supposed to feel like real pen and paper. http://www.wacom.com/bambootablet/ starts at $79