@gata said:
A windows update may have done something to your video driver. Reinstall your video driver/look for an update while you're at it.
You know, that might be it. I recently updated the drivers manually while checking to see if anything new was out. I updated on or about 1.25.08, which could be the culprit.
Maybe I can roll it back and see if anything happens...
Unfortunately, that is not the case either. I purchased this computer about 2 years ago for gaming and upgraded the necessaries because I knew I would also be doing work on it (both Photoshop and SketchUp). I am currently running:
HP Presario SR1750NX
AMD 3500+
4GB RAM
ATI Radeon X1300 512MB Graphics card (Driver date 1.22.08)
Windows XP SP2
24" HDRI monitor
But this has just started happening even though I started running v5 on this machine and upgraded to v6 with no problems. I'm stumped...
Ah yes, I see. What pulls it together is especially evident in the first image on that website. The surrounding landscape matches the stone that is being used on the house. It almost looks like limestone rather than a stacked stone. I have over 40 different limestones, so I have included a few for you to try.
Limstone 1
Limestone 2
Limestone 34
I agree, they do have nice stuff and you did a great job at matching it.
Thanks, I'll give that a try and see what happens.
@unknownuser said:
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If you stare at it long enough, it starts to show you a hidden picture. 
Anyway, looking at this again, I think architecturally speaking, the stone is fighting with the bold siding. The stone has an "olde world" feel to it whereas the siding is more modern contemporary. The two combined seems to have an unusual marriage that may not necessarily work. Personally, I would almost be tempted to try something like Stonemill TundraBrick by Eldorado Stone, but that's just me.
So is this something that is actually going to be built or just for fun?
Gosh, I love the use of primary/secondary colors in architecture. The only thing I would change is the bad stone. That repeating tile is killing it. Other than that, what a fantastic render.
Ok, last time I worked in SU a couple days ago at home I noticed this weird thing happening. I was working off some jpgs and they would distort while in xray mode.
Well, it's doing it again today and not only that, but I can't seem to paint, click or anything on any face that has another face or object behind it. It's hard to explain, so I made a flash movie showing a small example of what it was doing.
In the movie, I double click the face I want. It SHOULD highlight the face and bounding lines, but instead, it opens up the component to edit it of the leg on the opposite corner. Trying to paint this face, only either A) paints the inside face of whats behind it or B) paints the face of whats behind it.
Anyone else having these issues?? This is getting very frustrating. The only way I can push/pull, or paint or do anything is to either hide everything behind it or rotate so there is nothing behind it.
I've been working on this project for quite some time and the client is now requesting using the actual grading plan to cut and fill the land plan and topography map.
They were wow'd with the land plan illustration. They were more wow'd with the land plan laid onto the imported contours with a small animation showing the site in 3D. They were blown away with the models of the proposed architecture and generic cut and fill of the sample lots (not on topography). Now they want to see the actual grading plan implemented with the land plan on 3D site with models of proposed architecture.
I have the land plan conpleted in SketchUp, redrawn from the AutCAD file. I have the site plan in SketchUp created from the contours imported from AutoCAD.
So here is my dilemma...the grading plan is not 3D and is this even possible?? I can drape the land plan onto the topo, and stamp the pads, but obviously it isn't going to be right, especially when it comes to the streets being cut and filled properly.
I have been looking at Simuterra, but the program hasn't been updated since mid 2005 and will require a bit of a learning curve to work with.
Any suggestions, ideas or hope?
These are nice. I have also been working on creating a decent photoshop action that simulates watercolor, which is not an easy task. I'll have to give your style a try in CS3...thanks!
I have a photoshop action that I have used for the last 3 years or so (prior to my use of SketchUp), but it's still a work in progress. It's similar to Dennis' technique that layers b/w, colored, shadowed in seperate layers, only this does it all for you. You put in a colored rendering that you want to watercolor, hit the action and answer a few questions along the way to get the end result just the way you want it. You "paint" away the white exposing the the right amount of coloring you want. It works pretty well, but I'm still not entirely happy with it, however, I just haven't had the time to really finish working out exactly how I want it.
I've attached a close up sample below. This piece was taken from an illustration that had the linework created in cad and then colored in photoshop. No fancy texturing or brushwork was done. Everything you see was done in the script.
When I get some free time, I'll try and finish it and maybe it'll be presentable enough to share.
