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[thewonderidiot]

I'll also look up texture mapping, as right now I have no idea what that is (unless it's a template marking areas such as "table top" and "table leg" on the texture image?)

I just mean UV coordinates. They show where on a texture all of the vertices lie.

[Rushmik]

Aha, I sense a valuable learning experience ahead.

[TerryDactyl]

Actually, looking further into it, the SkyX moon is targeting vs_1_1. Try opening materials/SkyX/SkyX.material and replacing all instances of vs_1_1 with vs_2_0 or vs_2_x, and let me know if that works.

I tried vs_2_0, vs_2_x, vs_2_1 and vs_2_2... to no avail. And I messed around with some configs... I tried a clean install from 0.51 (I had the upgrade before)
...nothing. Nada!

I haven't poked around for drivers yet... but really... it should be relatively up-to-date. Refurb model computer. Got it a few months ago and the techies are pretty good about updates.

[thewonderidiot]

It's more than likely a driver problem then. I can't see it not supporting vs_2_x. Just download the latest drivers online and see if that fixes the problem.

I tried a clean install from 0.51 (I had the upgrade before)

By the way, for future reference, an Overseer folder after an update pack is applied is 100% identical to a fresh download of the new version, because all I do is keep track of which files I change in my release folder and put copies of them in their own zip.

[Makbeth]

Aha, I sense a valuable learning experience ahead.

Yep.  Once I figured out what UV coordinates are and how to use them, it changed my life. 

It changed my life, man.

[Ghills]

Converting SketchUp files to COLLADA (aka, I wish real life contained firey !!SCIENCE!!)

1) Simply using the Export function in Sketchup doesn't work with Blender. You have to export as Google Earth .kmz, rename the .kmz file to .zip and extract the models to get a useful .dae

2) You can't use Blender 2.5x, it doesn't import the .dae correctly. Instead, use 2.49b, the current stable build, and import as COLLADA 1.4, not 1.3

3) Sketchup's scale and the Blender scale are drastically different.

I think the best results come from using SketchUp in the Google Earth (meters) template.

Here's the chest I have so far:

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I went with a circles motif.

I have only a beginners idea of how to handle UV coordinates. Learning ahoy!

EDIT: To fix my HTML fail. Thanks for letting me know!

[Draco18s]

Here's the chest I have so far:

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You need to use "http://i.imgur.com/9WLvY.png" in that image tag, not the link-to-an-HTML-page URL.

[Rose]

3) Sketchup's scale and the Blender scale are drastically different.

Blender has a scale? I wasn't aware.

[Rushmik]

How does this look for a throne?

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I think it looks regal enough for a king, but long rows of them at a dining table may look out of place.

[MagmaMcFry]

I think it needs more elbow space. Also, it seems a little too high for one z-level.

But regality is never wrong.

[Ghills]

3) Sketchup's scale and the Blender scale are drastically different.

Blender has a scale? I wasn't aware.

It's either Blender's default scale assumption or COLLADA's default handling of measurement units, I'm not entirely sure which. But yes, all 3D modeling programs have a default scale. It's not something that gets noticed unless you try to convert something. In the past I've wound up with 300 ft beds, etc, so I knew to watch out for it.

[Sowelu]

What would really make this shine is different models for different quality of furniture.

...That wasn't an offer, though, so I should just shut my yap.

[thewonderidiot]

Keep up the good work guys. 

What would really make this shine is different models for different quality of furniture.

...That wasn't an offer, though, so I should just shut my yap.

There are two ways we could do that. We could either actually have separately designed models for the quality levels, or we could apply "deterioration" functions at different magnitudes to the highest quality model. Or a combination of both. I definitely like the idea though.

edit: good->could. derp.

[Makbeth]

So would the lowest quality models have n-gons, unused points, coincident polygons, and texture errors?

thewonderidiot:  Would the engine support toggling visibility of polygon groups on the model according to quality?

[thewonderidiot]

So would the lowest quality models have n-gons, unused points, coincident polygons, and texture errors?

thewonderidiot:  Would the engine support toggling visibility of polygon groups on the model according to quality?

Ogre meshes are composed of submeshes, which map to entities and subentities when attached to the scene graph. Given an entity, you can can get specific subentities and toggle their visibility, so... yes.