Help With Protrude

vizier · 1 Jul 2009, 19:27

Ok so I was using protrude fine for a bit then all of a sudden it started protruding things the wrong way. It makes the boxes protrude down through the ground instead of up toward the sky. I tried to fix it by putting in negative values into the dialog box but that didnt work either.

I really need help on this because I based my entire city mapping project with the intent of using protrude. Thanks in advance.

Chris Fullmer · 1 Jul 2009, 19:30

is it possible to move the entire model upwards to get it so its not sitting on the ground? That might help.

Chris

Jim · 1 Jul 2009, 19:33

Negative values don't work? What kind of hack wrote the thing, geez.

There is no reason I can think of not to support negative values. I do know it protrudes in the direction of the face normal - that is, the "front" direction. Make sure your faces are "right-side-up." I will go check on the negative thing.

vizier · 1 Jul 2009, 19:47

I eventried flipping the whole model upside down...and the darn thing still protrudes the wrong way...

Jim · 1 Jul 2009, 19:48

Would it be possible to upload a minimal model showing what you mean? It would help me understand.

vizier · 1 Jul 2009, 20:00

Here is a mini file. I cut it out of the big file and tested protruding it in a brand new file. It still goes upside down BUT it actually works properly instead of truncating the buildings like before. SO i was able to cut and paste it back into the main file as a workaround.

Still id like to know why it does into the ground...?

http://www.wiijii.com/vizier50/test.skp

Jim · 1 Jul 2009, 20:00

Here is an updated protrude.rbs. Please put it in your Plugins/protrude/ folder and see if it doesn't help.

http://jim.foltz.googlepages.com/protrude.rbs

Chris Fullmer · 1 Jul 2009, 20:06

Jim that one is not doing anything at for me now. I get no protruding and this error:

Error; #<NoMethodError; undefined method `protrude(nil)' for #<ProtrudeDialog;0x81e49d8>>
(eval);84;in `send'
(eval);84;in `initialize'
(eval);74;in `call'

Jim · 1 Jul 2009, 20:17

Weirdness. It works fine here...

vizier · 1 Jul 2009, 20:32

Does the color of the faces you select to protrude tell it what direction to go maybe?

Chris Fullmer · 1 Jul 2009, 20:34

Attempting to divide also gives this error:

Error; #<NoMethodError; undefined method `divideFaces()' for #<ProtrudeDialog;0x8247c78>>
(eval);84;in `send'
(eval);84;in `initialize'
(eval);74;in `call'

Jim · 1 Jul 2009, 20:39

Chris, did you put the file in the Plugins folder or the Plugins/protude folder? (It goes in Plugins/protrude/)

Chris Fullmer · 1 Jul 2009, 20:42

Yup, I put it in plugins/protrude and it overwrote the existing file.

The version of protrude I have is the one that is currently posted on your blog. Are you working with one that you had tweaked by chance?

Chris

Jim · 1 Jul 2009, 20:48

I moved all of my development files out of Plugins yesterday. With the exception of the updated file, it is the same os the online version. But here it is again just in case.

protrude.zip