[Ruby doc] .materialType method

[tomasz]

@unknownuser said:

materialType
The materialType method retrieves the type of the material.
Syntax
type = material.materialType
Return Value
type - the material type for the Material object

The last line explains everything.
As far as I can tell:

0 - just coloured material
1 - textured
2 - texured & coloured

A strange thing - when I reset colour of the texture the Type stays 2!!

I am intensively looking for a method that would tell me if a texture on a face is 'projected/photomacthed' or not. This one doesn't seem to do the job

I hope a Google friend will enlighten us or we can somehow figure it out together.

Thanks
Tomasz

[tomasz]

Any clue? I know there are a lot commercial exporters and SU2KT is a great rival

Tomasz

[notareal]

@unknownuser said:

...'projected/photomacthed'

Sorry cannot help with that. But it would be great if there is a way to find out it.

[todd burch]

I'm working on getting an answer for this.

Todd

[todd burch]

I checked with Google. You are correct, these are the values:

0 = solid
1 = textured
2 = colorized textured

I've updated the doc: http://groups.google.com/group/SketchUp-Plugins-Dev/web/Ruby-Material.html?hl=en#materialType

Todd

[Fletch]

@unknownuser said:

I am intensively looking for a method that would tell me if a texture on a face is 'projected/photomacthed' or not. This one doesn't seem to do the job

Todd, I'm not quite clear, sorry

Correct me if I'm wrong, I read the post you linked at google groups, but it's apparent to me, (I'm no programmer) then that it's impossible with the methods provided in SU6 to check to see the difference if a material applied in the scene is a photomatched texture or just any old .jpg Texture.

If not, will there be a patch released to provide a method? Or at least can google team please confirm providing this method in SU7

[todd burch]

@fletch said:

... it's apparent to me, (I'm no programmer) then that it's impossible with the methods provided in SU6 to check to see the difference if a material applied in the scene is a photomatched texture or just any old .jpg Texture.

And you would be correct. There is not Ruby support for Photomatch in V6. I can't speak for V7.

[tomasz]

It is sad. So maybe SU SDK could help, but it isn't within my abilities to play with it.

def SU2KT;;texture_distorted?(e,mat,mat_dir)
	distorted=false
	temp_tw=Sketchup.create_texture_writer
	model = Sketchup.active_model
	entities = model.active_entities
	model.start_operation "Group" #For Undo
	group=entities.add_group
	group.material = mat
	g_handle=temp_tw.load(group)
	temp_handle=temp_tw.load(e,mat_dir)
	entities.erase_entities group
	Sketchup.undo
	distorted=true if temp_handle!=g_handle
	temp_tw=nil
	return distorted
end

Here is what I am doing in SU2KT, but it is slow, memory consuming and dirty.

Btw. Todd - have you noticed that .materialType doesn't change from 2 back to 1 if a material is not longer colorized. Am I correct?

Thanks
Tomasz