On 4-10-2009 19:12, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> In seriousness for a moment... Do you have ANY FRICKIN IDEA how long 
>>> this took to do?!
>>>
>> Lets see, a pipe is a hollow cone plus a cylinder (2 minutes) add some 
>> csg for the red part (another five minutes). Debugging the loop and 
>> passing of parameters (+5) adding a wooden box (1 +6 for selecting the 
>> right texture), getting the viewpoint right (3 minutes).
>>
>> adding up... something under 15 minutes I would guess. Am I close?
> 
> Have you *tried* doing CSG with SketchUp? You don't just say "please 
> intersect these two things".
> 
> First it takes about 10 minutes to try to persuade it to position the 
> items where you actually ****ing want them. Then you say "intersect", 
> and all it does is alter the polygon mesh slightly. YOU must then, 
> manually, delete the faces you don't want any more. One at a time. You 
> see, any curved surface becomes 25,000 polygons, which you must delete 
> individually, one at a time.
> 
> Just to make things better, I got my CSG slightly wrong anyway, and it 
> took longer to fix it.
> 
> So, now you have one pipe. But I want 23 pipes. So, first select the 
> pipe and ask SketchUp to make 12 copies of it. (Fortunately, there *is* 
> an automatic way to do this!) Now select 11 of those copies, and make 
> them all 5% smaller. Select 10 copies, make them all 5% smaller. Select 
> 9 copies. Make them all 5% smaller. (Are you bored yet?) Eventually, you 
> have 12 pipes, all different sizes. Now the fun part. Copy them, 
> reposition the copy. Mirror it. (Do NOT rotate it as I mistakenly did!) 
> Spent 20 minutes trying to make it line up properly with the existing 
> pipes.
> 
> And, yes, stick them in a box, which takes about 45 seconds.
> 
> I can't help but feel that POV-Ray could have done this radically 
> faster. And the pipes would be *real* cylinders, not 24-gon prisms. And 
> they would be *shiny*!
> 

YOu missed the point, which is simply: you are using the wrong tool for 
this project. If it is to learn sketchup it is OK. If you want to create 
an image, you should reconsider.

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