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    [Plugin] Greeble 2 released! (Updated August 31st, 2009)

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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
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      hehe looks like the design suggestions for the Death Star. ๐Ÿ˜„

      Nice one Chris.

      Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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      • B Offline
        bubbalove
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        Thanks man! Don't know what I would use it for just yet but I'll come up with something...

        "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Churchill

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        • B Offline
          boilingsnow
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          the same skript with protrude.rb?

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
            last edited by

            So we can put the old Super Grebble at the garbage?

            PS It's not "looping" between generation? you must recall plug!

            Frenchy Pilou
            Is beautiful that please without concept!
            My Little site :)

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            • Chris FullmerC Offline
              Chris Fullmer
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              Is it not working?

              I tested it and it works fine on my end. Did I misunderstand you Frenchy?

              @Thom yeah, in fact it was named greeble by the team that created the models for starwars. This is the process they used to make the deathstar and add detail to the exteriors of their spaceships.

              @boilingsnow - yes, its pretty much the same thing as protrude. Only protrude I tihnk has a better user interface, and one of his versions sub-divides faces which is super cool ๐Ÿ˜„ There is also a random push/pull script that does similar things.

              Chris

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              • pilouP Offline
                pilou
                last edited by

                I select something: a cube
                Call the plug grebble beta2
                Box dimension ok
                Would you like....
                Yes : works โ˜€
                but now I must reselect something and recall the plug! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ is that normal? ๐Ÿ˜‰

                Frenchy Pilou
                Is beautiful that please without concept!
                My Little site :)

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                • Chris FullmerC Offline
                  Chris Fullmer
                  last edited by

                  Oh I see. I think that is normal. I added some things in there that probably messed with the active selection.

                  Chris

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
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                    @chris fullmer said:

                    @Thom yeah, in fact it was named greeble by the team that created the models for starwars. This is the process they used to make the deathstar and add detail to the exteriors of their spaceships.

                    Being a modelmaker, I should know that. But I'd not heard of the term before. I'll look it up.
                    I think you should get a thread started where people make their own death star. ๐Ÿ˜„

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

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                    • olisheaO Offline
                      olishea
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                      Hi guys I'm new to this greeble plugin, is there a tutorial anywhere? (I'm using a mac)

                      Also is there a way of making the units in millimeters?

                      Looks great by the way

                      Thanks in advance

                      Oli

                      oli

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                      • Chris FullmerC Offline
                        Chris Fullmer
                        last edited by

                        Hi, I had made a video tutorial when I first released it here:

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                        It is a little outdated as it does not show a few of the possible commands (I think it is missing the scale ability). Watch that video, and ask any questions you have. I need to make another video to put on the smustard.com host site. So just let me know how I can help. Hopefully that video will get you started,

                        Chris

                        EDIT: And I think that to use mm you should be able to type in "10mm" (minus the quotation marks of course) and that will make it work in mm's.

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                        • olisheaO Offline
                          olishea
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                          thanks im having a play with it now!!

                          Can't thank you enough by the way.....fantastic plugin im really impressed. Good tutorial as well.

                          soapskin+greeble 2+FFD+subsmooth (not necessarily in that order) = lots of fun

                          this is a greeble 2, subsmooth (1 iteration) and 'color by z' mix hope you like it.


                          greeble+subsmooth+color by z+podium


                          big bang rendered in podium

                          oli

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                          • P Offline
                            pibuz
                            last edited by

                            Hi Chris!
                            Thank you so much for this plugin!

                            I have some problems, though, unfortunately.. I installed everything (I hope) crrectly, your plugin DOES start but after the setting of the parameters, it just doesn't do anything. SIGH...

                            Oh, and another thing: the units in the parameters window are in inches, and don't match my file's unit system (which works in meters at the moment). Maybe this can give you some clues.

                            Sorry to bother you Chris...

                            WEB (ita) - https://filipposcarso.wixsite.com/ordinentropico

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                            • Chris FullmerC Offline
                              Chris Fullmer
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                              @olishea - Wow, thats great! Really cool looking stuff you've got there. I like the top one a lot with the color by Z thrown in the mix. I'm glad its working for you!

                              @pibuz - Sorry its not working yet. The script requires that you haveprogressbar.rbinstalled too (its also free). So you should put the clf_greeble_2.rb and progressbar.rb in your plugins folder. That is the first thing to try. Hopefully that will work. If not, please open the ruby console at Window>Ruby Console. Then have that open when you run the script. And copy anything that shows up int hat box when you run greeble and paste it over here for me to look at. We'll start with that. Hopefully its just a missing progressbar script. But if its something more, the error messages in the ruby console will hopefully help me find the problem.

                              Also, I am realizing that the default values that are in the script do show as inches, even if the model is in cm, m, mm, etc. That is something I can fix. But just removing the foot tick mark at the end of each number will change their unit from feet to the model default. The script will accept whatever unit you type with your number (10m, 32cm, 15') but if you leave it unitless (10, 32, 15) then it will use the deafult units.

                              Let me know how it goes, thanks

                              Chris

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

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                                pibuz
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                                Hi Chris! Thank you for your answer!
                                I had already downloaded and installed correctly "progressbar.rb" cos it's a basic plugin for other applications too ๐Ÿ˜‰. BTW I re-downloaded and re-installed it, but unfortunately still nothing changes.. ๐Ÿ˜ณ
                                I didn't know anything about erasing the ' to get the current system unit settings: thank you. I asked since I'm not too familiar with anglo-saxon's units' system..

                                BTW, I followed your directions and this is what the ruby console tells me. I copy-paste it here:

                                Error: #<ArgumentError: comparison of Float with nil failed>
                                (eval):44:in >' (eval):44:in update'
                                C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/clf_greeble_2.rb:173:in greeble' C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/clf_greeble_2.rb:171:in each'
                                C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/clf_greeble_2.rb:171:in greeble' C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/clf_greeble_2.rb:259 C:/Programmi/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/clf_greeble_2.rb:259:in call'

                                Thank you so much, chris.

                                WEB (ita) - https://filipposcarso.wixsite.com/ordinentropico

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                                • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                  Chris Fullmer
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                                  Hmm, did you download the version that is posted on Smustard? That error corresponds to a line of code that is not part of the code. And the provided error does not correspond to what is written on that line also. BUt I have another thought, it does not work on groups or components. You have to have regular ungrouped faces. Or go into a group and then run the script. Is that by chance the problem?

                                  Chris

                                  Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                                  • P Offline
                                    pibuz
                                    last edited by

                                    Hey!
                                    ..I'm sorry to report that I downloaded and installed the Smustard version of the plugin.
                                    And that I tried to greeble a manually-subdivided plane which was not a group..

                                    WEB (ita) - https://filipposcarso.wixsite.com/ordinentropico

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                                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                      Chris Fullmer
                                      last edited by

                                      Are you on a Mac, or XP, or Vista? Are you using SU 6 or 7? And lastly, maybe could you pm me a copy of the plugin you have installed? And maybe also a model that you tried to use it on. There seems to be something fishy. But we'll figure it out,

                                      Chris

                                      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                                        pibuz
                                        last edited by

                                        Oh, I use Windows Xp service pack2 or 3, don't remember..
                                        Sketchy6pro.
                                        ..I'm gonna pm you the ".rb"s later, cos now I'm at home and I tried the plugin at work. But I can tell you I'm quite sure that all of them are the latest plugins available. ๐Ÿ˜ก
                                        Moreover, my not-so-well-working-scene is really simple: a square 1m x 1m subdivided into smaller squares 10cm x 10cm. No groups no components nothing at all: just the square. If I select all and start the plugin I get the message i pasted previously..

                                        I'm so embarassed to bother this much, Chris. But now it's become sort of a personal matter. ๐Ÿ˜„

                                        WEB (ita) - https://filipposcarso.wixsite.com/ordinentropico

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                                        • P Offline
                                          pibuz
                                          last edited by

                                          ..I had NO generation at all, Pilou... ๐Ÿ˜ณ ๐Ÿ˜ณ ๐Ÿ˜ณ

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                                          • pilouP Offline
                                            pilou
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                                            I miss something or we are obliged to recall the box dialog between each generation?

                                            Frenchy Pilou
                                            Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                            My Little site :)

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