Atomic Systems

I'd been wondering how to 'paint' on a texture of a spring - which wouldn't be a square in the model. It doesn't need to be. Paint the texture on the outer face of the spring shape, then use the pushpins to size and position the spring bit of the texture over the "physical" shape, regardless of the...

Do the different colours/textures all have to be in different .ace files Nice-looking locomotive, John. You can put bits of a texture file on to individual surfaces by moving pushpins around - after you've "painted" the texture onto a surface, right-click on it and select "Position". You're then gi...

liposuction

echidna

Oops, that's another creature from Australia... errm... errrm...

Hephthemimer

(Sorry - the haircut. Well, it keeps the snow out of one's ears in inclement weather and in the absence of an umbrella. See
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/h/a/t/hatch_e.htm for more details)

glaciation

contubernal

This is a surprising phenomenon. If you use the Sketchup materials "straight out of the tin" to texture a surface, that surface will disappear when it's inside the sphere of light from the train's headlamp. The disappearance only occurs when MSTS is drawing a shadowed surface. Note the gap in the ro...

johndibben wrote:For some time I've wanted a campavan.

Oh to be like a little snail with a house on your back

Cheers

John

...and travel at snail-like speeds that frustrate other road users. Hang on - isn't that where we came in?

No, but they are both rectangular. The sides taper outwards in two planes - that is, the back of the basket is both wider and deeper than the front; and it's also raked inwards towards the bottom. Now you've said that, though, I'm beginning to wonder whether the front is a rectangle but the back is ...

Has anyone tried applying textures to triangles - by which I mean loading in a custom texture, and positioning it on the poly using the pushpins? I've just been drawing a shopping trolley (don't ask), which looks like this in SketchUp: [album 131809 ShoppingTrolley%5BSketchUp%5D.jpg thumblink] You'l...

GOMs may enjoy http://www.weeklygripe.co.uk/a140.asp

Now you're going to tell me you wrote it, aren't you?

When I was in my second living, in Denbigh, in North Wales, I had an extremely presuasive chap who tried to sell me stone cladding for the outside of the house. I gave him a cup of coffee because he looked like he needed one, poor chap, and we chatted for a while. When he said, "anyway, about stone ...

Never mind, Doug, John; we have the consolation given by what it says just below this append: "Oldest First". One thing that intrigue's me i's that no-one ha's yet mentioned the greengrocer's apo'strophe. I forget who it was who 'said The function of the apostrophe is to let you know that an S is on...

johndibben wrote:No wonder old people are prone to deaf and can't see as well as they could.

Pardon? Sorry, you'll have to speak up a bit.


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Thank you for your kind contributions.

johndibben wrote:Why does hair grow in your ears and eyebrows get thicker while that on top gets thinner?

...especially when one function of eyebrows is to stop the dandruff falling into your eyes...