Need good Ruby scripter

totom

Hi all,

I'm looking for someone who could create an automatic color material changer and Hi Res PNG exporter.
Please, let me know if someone is interested and I'll explain the whole process

Thanks
Tom

Chris Fullmer

I PM'ed you about it. I'm interested. If it is just changing material colors and exporting .png's, it shouldn't be too much of a "process" hopefully

Chris

totom

Hello Chris,
I send you a couple of PM but no answers..

People, I still need somebody !

Thanks

RickW

Have you tried SceneExporterPro for exporting your image files?

totom

@rickw said:

Have you tried SceneExporterPro for exporting your image files?

Hi, It is more complex than that

Thanks for your try..

@All : When I send a PM, it stays in the OUTBOX for hours.. is that a normal behavior ?

@TIG : PM send ... but in Outbox.. should be yours soon...

Jim

@totom said:

@All : When I send a PM, it stays in the OUTBOX for hours.. is that a normal behavior ?

Yes, it stays in the outbox until the person reads the message.

Is there a difference between a .png and a Hi Res .png?

totom

Thanks Jim. I understand...

About the PNG and HI RES, No there isn't.
The Hi Res is bigger than the screen resolution like 8000x4000 px for instance

thomthom

Can your scene be exported in that resolution with the SU exporter?

Don't think you can make an alternative with ruby. The PNG is non-trivial, it'd require knowledge of the PNG format. But the ultimate show stopper would be that you can not read the 2D scene view with the ruby API.

Chris Fullmer

You can do all image exports using view.write_image

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/view.html#write_image

It should let you do a high-res .png just fine.

Chris

thomthom

@chris fullmer said:

You can do all image exports using view.write_image

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/view.html#write_image

It should let you do a high-res .png just fine.

Chris

That do the same thing the File->Export 2D does. 4000x8000 is pushing it, depending on the model. If SU's export fail then .write_image will fail as well.

Chris Fullmer

@thomthom said:

That does the same thing the File->Export 2D does. 4000x8000 is pushing it, depending on the model. If SU's export fail then .write_image will fail as well.

Agreed, some models won't survive that resolution.

thomthom

Though, for these border cases, I have found that restarting SU help. Probably frees up a little extra memory. And some times I have more luck by exporting to BMP. I assume BMP works better because it's uncompressed so less processing is required.