thanks a lot guys!

Thanks Tig

@tails said: They are official resellers on 1001bits website, but I'll go direct. Good choice. Top tool

@nickgenerator said: I am new to Sketchup and right now completely overwhelmed by all those plugins. Can I somewhere find a up-zo-date list where they are sorted by categories - modelling, rendering, import/export, etc. - and download numbers? Just to remind you all. Above is the initial post. As he says, he is new to sketchup and overwhelmed by all these plugins! Oh woe! He doesn't understand how plugins develop over time. He seems to expect to be informed to keep him up to date. He must think this is a sort of Acad without the cost of constant paid updates. Lazy or ignorant I reckon. I have a personal relationship with my plugins. I check for updates out of interest. I follow the development of a plugin out of interest.Mostly, I don't need 'em, (until I do). But it is fascinating to watch the ruby gurus develop a plugin with feedback from members. It is the beauty of SU and this forum. Would someone with more cred than me please address this issue, which I believe has the potential to destroy "3D for Everyone". I am reminded of a quote from John Brunner's book 'Zanzibar'.... ..." It's supposed to be automatic, but actually, you have to press this button".

wow! I anxiously await the release of this plugin. So much progress on UV mapping on several fronts.

Yes, you can safely remove skin.rb. It was a nice plugin at its time but now Curviloft (and also other plugins) can do more and nicer.

Thanks for the help. I didn't know how to use a zipped file, but now I do. Great site for those who need lots of help.

Thanks, that's what I'm looking for! Easy to modify for my purpose as well, thanks!

Thanks, TIG. I had my hopes on you.

Seems the better place is here ? http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=250026

huhu missed this one!

Ok, I understand. So let's dream. See the "EXEMPLO". exemplo.skp

@unknownuser said: @unknownuser said: Well I found the plugin, booleanhelper.rb. So my search that plugin is over. Now, I need to dig into this plugin to see if I can get it to just scale the selected groups and not the whole model. Ken why not just use the tape measure tool or scale tool Yes the tape measure tool works, however it is a pain to go around to all the 3d text that I have inserted. In this case I was adding 3d text, and I had to keep changing the size to fit. One size did not work. However, that is when I decided hey if there is a tool that would change the size just by selection of the group/component/3Dtxt and clicking on the enlarger or reducer icon depending on which way I wanted to go, than I could just add text at a small size then go back and enlarge/reduce the text as required. I found my solution. Booleanhelper.rb, not here in the plugin index of this site. The plugin located at this site enlarges the whole model. However, in "Ruby Library Depot" there is an older version that just enlarges the selected group/component. So with a little modification, I now have a plugin that will change the size of 3d text and has nice looking icons. So, I have found a solution to my problem with 3d text. I now have a font enlarger/reducer just like Word. And my modified plugin changes any selection, group/component/geometry. So I wish to thank, Liquid98 for this plugin. Also in the plugin index of this site is Liquid98 other booleanhelper.rb. Which is a nice plugin. So I am happy. Thanks all the for help. Ken

I haven't forgotten about this... Would it be possible to mark up the 'stick' image to show what is what compared to the .pm file ? It should be relatively easy to extract the XYS data from each entry in the 'imported' .pm file and make geometry/group in a SKP... Not so sure about the 'reverse' exporting...

Rats! "Alternative switch that shadow option OFF and draw a [grouped] ground-plane where you want it to be..." That is what I have been doing.

Sure! Terminatorizer the Return!

It's not just a matter of grayscale contrast: I want to achieve a visual style that simulates (fakes) natural light. Natural light comes in a wide range of different flavours, and the difference between them can be enormous. The source of all our natural light is the sun, however it takes on different characteristics at different times of day and in different weather conditions, turning this one source of light into essentially many different ones ranging from hard and warm to soft and cool. In Wings 3D, shadows and color are driven by Spherical Harmonics coordinates. Since I have no idea if Sketchup's rendering engine can do this, I found a workaround by painting my model's surfaces. I tweaked the ruby script "Color By" by sdmitch, using my personal colour values. The result is a sort of "Cylindical Harmonics" style. My palette is based on the Kelvin Spectrum, which I find pleasant for my eyes. Here the part of the script that I changed. def self.direction_color(v) v.y = v.y > 1.0 ? 1.0 ; v.y angle=Math.acos(v.y).radians angle=360.0-angle if v.x < 0.0 ### change these test ranges and/or color to suit... case angle when 11.25...33.75;color=[255,189,124]; #2000 K° when 33.75...56.25;color=[255,217,181]; when 56.25...78.75;color=[254,227,203]; when 78.75...101.25;color=[253,237,225]; when 101.25...123.75;color=[249,237,232]; when 123.75...146.25;color=[245,238,239]; when 146.25...168.75;color=[238,238,247]; when 168.75...191.25;color=[232,237,254]; when 191.25...213.75;color=[223,232,254]; when 213.75...236.25;color=[214,227,255]; when 236.25...258.75;color=[201,219,255]; when 258.75...281.25;color=[191,212,255]; when 281.25...303.75;color=[181,206,255]; when 303.75...326.25;color=[166,197,255]; when 326.25...348.75;color=[151,187,255]; #8000 K° else color=[255,255,255]; Now, it would be nice to drive this with the sun position, and have an imput panel where you can set 2 main colors and let the script generate the gradient between them. In this way we could easlily fake the light of midday sunshine, late afernoon, sunset, dusk and so on. Anybody who can help is welcome! [image: uYhU_skechup-test-1.gif]

Rectification, désolé ce n'est pas une erreur systématique. Il y en a une autre qui n'est pas systématique non plus, avec le rendu de scènes visualisées dans Sketchup en projection orthogonale. Thierry*

Somebody smarter than me probably already figured this out, but I was using this plug-in to add a camo pattern to an aircraft model. I kept messing up the projection from one group to the next until I created a flat plane that was slightly bigger than the whole model, painted that, then pasted it into each element as I was texturing it. Then I ran the UV projection plug in on each element. Because the flat plane was the same dimensions and in the same place for all the disparate groups, it acted as a consistent point of reference for the plug in as long as I kept the same settings. That made the job far easier for me.

@jpalm32 said: @unknownuser said: My solution is not a plugin and it's a commercial soft again... It's Paracloud Gem I dream about a simple free plug for SU doing that ! Waiting for it, I've bought the V4 next year. Price??? Nothing on site I can find. Not much info either Sad... there is no info on the new version of the web site I said "I've bought the V4 next year", but's not realy true... "My school bought it" is better So, I dont realy know the price, but I remember something about 250$ for academic license.