@remus said:

@toxicvoxel said:

It sounds like a script for a sketch does it not?

Not really.

You may be right Remus. Sometimes reality is more absurd than Farce.

Nice job - but I agree with James about the repetition on the brickwork.
I have found that textures showing only horisontal joints work better at that distance.

You can retain the original texture for closer views.

I ran into the speed issue with realy large models and opted to write the geometry definition to a file format and then importing via a script - which gave me faster results, - but this may not suit your needs.

"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men."
Max Beerbohm

It sounds like a script for a sketch does it not?:

A peasant has cried revolt against the Gatekeeper of the Great City. Soon the usual assassins appear from the shadows to defend the honor of the King. Dissenting murmurs can be heard amongst the throng outside the city walls , when suddenly the White Knight appears on the castle wall.

"Uhm ... It's a mistake!" he cries. "Things are not as they appear, - the Wizard has mixed up the keys."

Once again peace can return to the land...

@khai said:

'if you don't like whats on the channel, turn over or off' - PapaKhai to Khai.

Thanks for staying tuned in to my thread.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~Tommy Smothers

I no longer have sex with my wife. I have too much respect for her...
Local at the Prince Albert Pub - Bowness.

[I haven't read the whole thread so my apologies if this has been noted before.]

Some fundamental reasons why plugins are not used:

1.CAD managers hate them.
IT/CAD managers know that their responsibilities increase exponentially with the number of
applications they support. Deploying a suite of scripts developed by enthusiastic albeit amateur
developers can be a huge responsibility as they can easily be broken by OS /host application
updates and script incompatibilities. Some company IT managers feel so strongly about this that they will not even try to solve the problem but will simply reformat and reinstall a partition image
containing a standard application installation set on the user machine. The larger the company the more difficult it is to find a balance between maintaining robust system stability and deploying new technology.

2. Scripts create lock-in.
However useful they may be, they are often bound to a specific application or application version
with no updates available because the developers are no longer actively developing the system.
(Especially true when it comes to free and shared scripts.) This leaves you with the option of
staying with an older version of the host application or to upgrade and discard the script. (- Hell, this even happens when I upgrade Windows!)

Another aspect of this syndrome is that one becomes so dependant on the customisations that you
cannot move on to new and a better design technology when it becomes available.

• The answer to this possibly is to build customisations in an application-neutral way so that
  user investment in learning & deployment do not become redundant when the next generation of design software takes off. From a developer's perspective developing with such a strategy brings the benefit of portability but possibly at the expense of tight integration with host applications.

3.Management have burnt their fingers.
I know of a few examples where a company had the benefit of having a proactive CAD manager who had over a period of years developed the CAD production system through customisation. When that member of staff left the practice there was nobody that could pick up the system and support it. After struggling for a few months the management pulled the plug and issued instruction that all software had to be replaced with standard installations with a complete ban on customisations. When the the support issues start to negate the productivity benefits, the use of plugins no longer remain a viable option.

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

Therefore, a theory of free speech which takes such weightless situations as being the centre of the subject seems to me to go wrong from the first. I begin from the opposite direction. I believe the situation of constraint is the normative one and that the distinctions which are to be made are between differing situations of constraint; rather than a distinction between constraint on the one hand and a condition of no constraint on the other. Another way to put this is to say that, except in a seminar-like situation, when one speaks to another person, it is usually for an instrumental purpose: you are trying to get someone to do something, you are trying to urge an idea and, down the road, a course of action. These are the reasons for which speech exists and it is in that sense that I say that there is no such thing as "free speech", that is, speech that has as its rationale nothing more than its own production."

I posted the whole quote because it is very impressive....What a great way to express the difficulties therein. Bravo...I'm going to save that piece and use it a few times with your name on it if you don't mind.

I'll give you a bowl of petunias if you manage to memorise it... - It's a speech not a quote.

@unknownuser said:

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin

@unknownuser said:

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
Michael Musto

School is out early today...

Marian, why are you posting this here?

@unknownuser said:

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr

[Any similarity of the above to text contained in any Private Message on this forum is purely coincidental.]

Useful for design and digital painting:
http://www.colourlovers.com/
(- Also check out the palette search page.)

I wonder how his may affect development of some of their products:
http://www.develop3d.com/2009/11/whats-going-on-at-adobe.html

Spaceclaim goes touchscreen:
http://cadinsider.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/11/has-spaceclaim-found-the-future-interface.html