[Plugin] Remove group materials, leave geometry material

Jackson · 27 Nov 2008, 19:35

Seems to work perfectly Matthieu! I just ran it with the test file I sent you and it reassigned all the materials in just a few seconds. This is such a valuable little tool for "VRay for SU" users, I will spread the good word (and your name) over at the ASGvis forums.

Many many thanks for creating this little gem, MERCI BEAUCOUP!
Jackson

Matt666 · 27 Nov 2008, 21:23

You're welcome, Jackson ! Glad to help you !

plot-paris · 28 Nov 2008, 07:52

thanks so much, Matthieu!

only one minor thing still: while all the materials are applied to faces and the material of the outer group is changed to default, nested groups still keep their assigned material. that is not very important, because the face's textures are the dominant ones. but to be perfectly accurate, it would be great if the plugin could assign the default material to nested groups too.

one positive side effect I experienced is, that your plugin coloures front and back faces. that is really good!

Matt666 · 28 Nov 2008, 08:09

Hi plot-paris !
ok, that's been updated !
Thank you for testing !

plot-paris · 28 Nov 2008, 08:49

damn, you are fast! now the plugin is flawless. fantastic! thank you so much!!!

vinchvinchvinch · 28 Nov 2008, 21:56

Hi!
Matt, you are already a legend in ASGvis forum!
Thank you man!

Jackson · 29 Nov 2008, 09:55

LOL, you guys are a two-man developer and beta team!

Great work, I'll link this thread over at ASGvis.

thomthom · 1 Dec 2008, 09:56

@jackson said:

Matthieu,

You are the man! If you can produce a ruby script which removes group materials and applies them to the default geometry you will save me about 3 day's work on this model alone! I'm trying to update my portfolio so this would be of enormous benefit to me as I've got lots to do and very little time to do it.

somewhat off topic, but: where did you get hold of the ground texture?

watkins · 1 Dec 2008, 11:46

Could someone explain exactly what this script does, and what are the benefits? It would help the technically challenged, like myself.

Kind regards,
Bob

thomthom · 1 Dec 2008, 12:17

It makes sure that no materials are applied to groups and components. It will either remove the materials of groups and components or transfer them to the geometry.
For users of V-Ray for SketchUp it has the benefit of faster parsing time and more reliable outcome as VfSU struggles to get correct data for groups and components with materials applied to them.

watkins · 1 Dec 2008, 17:04

Thank you Thomas.

Regards,
Bob

jds · 23 Dec 2008, 14:03

Matt666

i havent tried your plugin just like to thank you for giving this solution

i already stop using the latest vray bec. of some issues but if this plugin will work wow thank you so much

thomthom · 30 Jan 2009, 14:21

Matt; You could benefit from using the extra speedboost argument for the start_operation method which was introduced in SU7.

Matt666 · 30 Jan 2009, 18:12

Yep! First code post updated! Thank you Thomthom...

Didier Bur · 30 Jan 2009, 18:14

Hi Matt,
Is this version only for v7 or does it run under v6 too ?

Matt666 · 30 Jan 2009, 18:21

Hi Didier!
This update works with both versions.

if Sketchup.version[0,1].to_i >= 7
  model.start_operation("Remove comp & group materials",true)
else
  model.start_operation("Remove comp & group materials")
end

Thank you for the remark

Didier Bur · 30 Jan 2009, 18:48

Merci,
C'était pour savoir comment l'indexer sur mon site.

thomthom · 26 Feb 2009, 18:16

I have a suggestion for an improvement. An option to make components painted with different materials into unique components.

Matt666 · 17 Mar 2009, 08:13

Hi thomthom!
Sorry for the delay! Great idea! O've updated the code.
I've tested it veeery quickly....
The plugin post is up-to-date.

Matt666 · 17 Mar 2009, 09:28

Thank you Jackson