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

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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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      • JClementsJ Offline
        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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          • GaieusG Offline
            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! πŸ‘

            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 β€” 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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                  • C Offline
                    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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                      • R Offline
                        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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                          • S Offline
                            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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                              • S Offline
                                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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                                  • S Offline
                                    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 πŸ˜„

                                    ...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 πŸ˜„

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

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

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

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                                      • S Offline
                                        snorky
                                        last edited by

                                        @thomthom said:

                                        Update to the latest version of Component Spray. The old Component Spray caused problems.
                                        😳
                                        works fine now...

                                        EDIT!!!

                                        sorry, doesn't work!
                                        I remove old component spray tool and forgot to put new!
                                        now I try with new compo-spray.rb but error is still there

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                                        • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                          Chris Fullmer
                                          last edited by

                                          That is the second error report in the last 2 days that component spray is not fixed. But it was fixed a while ago, so I'm not sure what happened. Maybe Didier updated it and re-broke it? 😑

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

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                                          • Y Offline
                                            yvani
                                            last edited by

                                            hello Chris,
                                            My first post on this great site, and many thanks for this very useful script!
                                            Another great implementation would be to give as well possibility to have a [highlight=#ffffbf:11vlkwjz]gradient of transparency[/highlight:11vlkwjz] (I am thinking now of cloud generation....)

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