This is one I did a while ago. It has 40+ hotspots and was a complete pig to setup. I used the CubicPanOut plug-in to produce the 6 views per hotspot then moved the 40x6 images over to my Mac and then CubicConverter and CubicConnector to make the finished movie. This is a link to the Quicktime movie on my dropbox account, its 280Mb so don't try and play it from here, you'll have to download it first. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/373226/StPeters/1287-QTVR-V2.mov

I like the first one more. I see she talked her husband off the roof.

Every nice PP app has a color management option. 8bit per channel = 3x8=24bits. Just be sure that your photo has a color profile embedded, then very nice OSs can project colors correct on your monitor. MacOSX and windowsVista can do it. WinXP or some LINUXs... no, sorry. Maybe this explains why photos opened in photoshop, look deferent than any XP photo viewer. sRGB is fine for most cases. Just ask your app to do this. Look in prefs maybe there is something there, (color management), I can help for photoshop and gimp if you like. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management

@tig said: ...till they bite us in the butt... So you do understand the timing of my question :`)

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Thanks, Tina...good to hear: with my proclivities (and I'm starting to suspect my monitor as well) I was thinking it might be a bit hazy and dull.

Women. Can't live without them... Can't live with them... Can't even chop them up into little pieces and put them in black bin-bags... What's a guy to do ? ..................

I am out of a job too but luckily going back to uni in September. Right I am taking the opportunity to learn Rhino and Grasshopper. Maybe you could take a course in something you've always wanted to learn? Just a suggestion.

Hi and thanks...yes, this thread of liam's ( http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18866&p=167921&hilit=liam#p154487 ) illuminated the full possiblities of using a line only SU export to quickly mask areas of an image to work on separately. Once I resigned myself to the tedium of using several mutliply layers for each area (50-60 total for this simple image), I found the basic concept worked wonderfully...of course, I have a long, long road ahead learning color and stroke, etc. The shadow trick is also huge: using several progressively blurred layers to soften the edges. With more attention to detail and some work at edges that should remain sharp, I think there are big possibilities. I started off this computer journey with Windows products, then Corel draw and paint, so the Apple Adobe interface never seemed comfortable to me. When Corel bought paintshop pro I got it cheap and never looked back. It seems to do most of what I hear Photoshop can do (filters, etc), probably some of it not as well (brushes, etc)...but then again, I've only learned what I need to know at the time I needed it: so probably PSP is much better than I know. I haven't figured out if I'm at a good or bad place right now. I want to add a couple of techniques to my kit: the vray clay render, the piranesi marker style, the vue landscaping possibilities...but I don't want (can't really afford) to buy any (let alone several) expensive programs right now. So I'm giving PSP a go to emulate these three styles...couldn't hurt to learn more of PSP even if I can't get the substitute techs good enough???

Tom, You and I good buddy are older'n dirt. Got 'em all too. Allen

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Churchill on Clement Attlee: He's a very modest man. . .who has much to be modest about."

Yep ... well, really we live NEAR Coarsegold - but the USPS lumps us all in together. We live in a development of about 2,000 homes with minimum 1 acre lots. Really great people live here in the foothills, we don't have the glare of the city (Fresno), and we're above the nasty valley Tule Fog (ya ain't been in fog till you've been in the Tule Fog!). The other upside is that we are only an hour and a half from the Yosemite Valley floor and only 45 minutes from Bass Lake (awesome boating lake - it was featured in the John Candy / Dan Aykroyd movie "The Great Outdoors").

yeah...unfortunately, Profile Builder is based on the native Follow Me tool and cannot help you here. However, if you do a lot of this sort of modelling, it will pay for itself pretty quick.

Ahh weld, of course, good thinking Remus. I was thinking of a script that would automatically find all arc and turn them into true SketchUp arcs. Overkill. Weld, of course, Chris

Tom, All your renderings are beautiful, but I always look at things through an architect's eyes and what is best for illustrating the building. I have to agree with Alan that #2 in the first set are better in that regards (IMHO) as they are cleaner. And in the last two, there is too much foreground with too much happening in it; the only reason I could a rendering from that perspective is if client specifically asked for it. I don't think your clouds are too distracting; in fact, the one in the middle witha vertical cloud formation over the corner tower enhances the architecture. Daniel

Well okay, Alan...if that's the way you want to be I suppose I can cope :`) Hope you enjoy!

Did you hear about the blonde car pool? They all meet at work. A blonde ordered a pizza and the clerk asked if he should cut it in six or twelve pieces. "Six, please. I could never eat twelve pieces."

its good thank you...

Sure! With high poly (billions of polys with easy orbiting), multi core, 64 bit, proxy, animation and hdri support and a fix for the shadow bug (actually, a WYSIWYG, real time PR renderer will also be added) They are now writing the exporters for Max, Cinema4D - even Vue - and all because they will be toys compared to SU.