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    [Plugin] Color by Z (Updated August 27th, 2009)

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      xrok1
      last edited by

      thats sweet. thank you very much for that. coincidentally you just answer a another question, i was trying to figure out how to make a painted wall texture for skindigo, but i couldn't figure out how get SK to UV map surfaces with just white material on it so i could apply displacement. now after watching your vid i figure i can just make unique my material then it should be uv'ed.

      thank you

      “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

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        linea
        last edited by

        Good idea Chris, thanks

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          urgen
          last edited by

          ...nice idea Chris! 👍 😄

          --pupil forever...------

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          • soloS Offline
            solo
            last edited by

            Cool and thanks, this should come in handy.


            http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6384/colorfulkk4.jpg

            http://www.solos-art.com

            If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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              JClements
              last edited by

              It never occurred to me to project a gradient color onto a terrain, great idea.

              Mt Hood gone Active Vulcanic AGAIN 2.jpg

              However, I do project gradient transparency along with gradient color onto a single surface to make arrow-shaped objects and "swooshes" that indicate direction or motion.

              Gradient Arrow in SKP.jpg


              Mt Hood gone Active Vulcanic AGAIN 2.skp


              Gradient Arrow.skp

              John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                Chris Fullmer
                last edited by

                Solo, was that made with the plugin or with the image gradient method?

                Chris

                Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                All my Plugins I've written

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                  Gaieus
                  last edited by

                  Hi Chris and all,

                  I haven't been able to drop by the Ruby Dept for days so I might be a bit late... Do you know however Didier's "paint_altitude_faces.rb" by any chance? It works kind of similar (only with the gradients of the same colour):
                  http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/em_ren_page.htm
                  There's also a demonstration video supplied.

                  All in all, yours is a very cool plugin with this texture gradient! 👍

                  Gai...

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                  • Chris FullmerC Offline
                    Chris Fullmer
                    last edited by

                    Yeah, I have a tendency to not look around to see if similar scripts exist before starting one (I think there were already about 4 version of a random pushpull script before I wrote mine, for example). Mostly because I'm still just writing these for the experience and they each teach me a new little portion of the Ruby SketchUp API. But I definitely need to watch out for that before I embark on any seriously large and in-depth projects I suppose!

                    So I tried to check his out, and its only painting black faces on my model regardless of what color I select. I suppose it might be a units thing? but I changed my model units to metric with no luck. Also the avi file wouldn't play for me so I couldn't see it in action. I even tried playing it with mPlayer, which generally plays anything you throw at it. But that didn't work. It came out all garbled.

                    Chris

                    Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                    All my Plugins I've written

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      @chris fullmer said:

                      So I tried to check his out, and its only painting black faces on my model regardless of what color I select. I suppose it might be a units thing? but I changed my model units to metric with no luck. Also the avi file wouldn't play for me so I couldn't see it in action.

                      Ditto.

                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                      • GaieusG Offline
                        Gaieus
                        last edited by

                        Okay guys, don't ask me. I just remembered seeing the ruby in the list about two ears ago (never tried). Maybe it has problems with SU 6+? The video plays to me and Didier uses a blue colour for the demo.

                        Gai...

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                          chan
                          last edited by

                          This is just great Chris. Thank you so much.
                          I deal with many diffrent urban projects and
                          I clearly see that Skechup with smart programmers like yourself
                          has great potential in evolving into sth not only for visual outcomes but
                          for urban analysis.
                          Color by Z is already a great start isn't it?
                          Could this kind of approach broadens to....
                          **- analyze daytime shadow coverage ratio

                          • density analysis(maybe by comparing # of lines certain area contains)
                          • open view condition by z**
                            and so on and so on...

                          If anyone is interested, I would love to discuss about it(just can't program it ;( ).
                          Thanks again Chris.Untitled.jpg

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                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                            Chris Fullmer
                            last edited by

                            "analyze daytime shadow coverage ratio"

                            That is one that has been on my mind lately. I just can't figure out how to figure out the percentage calculations because there is no easy way to get that data out of SU I think. So I would essentially have to find get the location data from the model, and evaluate each face myself using the sun angles every 15 minutes or something and run that on each face etc. I'm really not sure how that would go or if its even feasible. It would be cool if it was.

                            Chris

                            Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                            All my Plugins I've written

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                              rinaldo
                              last edited by

                              Erro ao carregar o arquivo clf_color_by_z.rb
                              No such file to load -- progressbar.rb

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                              • TIGT Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                @rinaldo said:

                                Erro ao carregar o arquivo clf_color_by_z.rb
                                No such file to load -- progressbar.rb

                                Download progressbar.rb free from SMustard...

                                TIG

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                                  snorky
                                  last edited by

                                  doesn't work for me.

                                  Error; #<ArgumentError; comparison of Float with nil failed>
                                  (eval);44;in `>'
                                  (eval);44;in `update'
                                  
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                                  • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                    Chris Fullmer
                                    last edited by

                                    You need to have progressbar from http://www.smustard.com installed also. Go install the plugin and then see if the plugin works after that,

                                    Chris

                                    PS - thanks for posting the error!

                                    Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                    All my Plugins I've written

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                                      snorky
                                      last edited by

                                      @chris fullmer said:

                                      You need to have progressbar from http://www.smustard.com installed also. Go install the plugin and then see if the plugin works after that,

                                      Chris

                                      PS - thanks for posting the error!
                                      I have it...
                                      sorry for uncompleted quoting, this is right error:

                                      Error; #<ArgumentError; comparison of Float with nil failed>
                                      (eval);44;in `>'
                                      (eval);44;in `update'
                                      C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_color_by_z.rb;140;in `colorbyz'
                                      C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_color_by_z.rb;138;in `each'
                                      C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_color_by_z.rb;138;in `colorbyz'
                                      C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_color_by_z.rb;174
                                      C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/clf_color_by_z.rb;174;in `call'
                                      

                                      and sorry for my poor enghish

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                                      • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                        Chris Fullmer
                                        last edited by

                                        Try removing component spray from you plugins, then try my script. See if that is the problem.

                                        Chris

                                        Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                        All my Plugins I've written

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                                          snorky
                                          last edited by

                                          @chris fullmer said:

                                          Try removing component spray from you plugins, then try my script. See if that is the problem.

                                          Chris
                                          yeeeeeeeeeeeees!
                                          but... if you know that... can you solve it? component spray is very usefull for me 😄

                                          ...by the way... yours is a good script!

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            @snorky said:

                                            @chris fullmer said:

                                            Try removing component spray from you plugins, then try my script. See if that is the problem.

                                            Chris
                                            yeeeeeeeeeeeees!
                                            but... if you know that... can you solve it? component spray is very usefull for me 😄

                                            ...by the way... yours is a good script!

                                            Update to the latest version of Component Spray. The old Component Spray caused problems.

                                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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