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[Plugin] UVTools 0.2 Pro (Beta) (Updated for SU6)

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    pilou
    last edited by 19 Nov 2009, 15:04

    Seems a new true gem β˜€
    @Remus: you have Blender 2.5? 😲

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

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      pilou
      last edited by 19 Nov 2009, 15:08

      Blender Shortcuts πŸ˜‰
      Seems it's Home

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

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        Khai
        last edited by 19 Nov 2009, 15:10

        testing it now.. but it looks like as a sideline, you've created a good OBJ exporter.....

        ok. you've created as a sideline, a almost perfect OBJ exporter for Sketchup. (just the naming / save location)

        hot damn. UVmapping and OBJ exporting.... you should see the grin on my face!

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          remus
          last edited by 19 Nov 2009, 16:01

          Pilou, you can get the latest builds (pre beta at the moment) from here: http://www.graphicall.org/builds/

          Whaat, i'll give 2.49 a try this evening and let you know how it goes.

          http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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            Khai
            last edited by 19 Nov 2009, 19:26

            ok been playing with this today and I consider it a must have already...

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              jeff hammond
              last edited by 19 Nov 2009, 19:30

              khai - you have to sell it man!
              let's see some pictures of what you've come up with πŸ˜„

              dotdotdot

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                Khai
                last edited by 19 Nov 2009, 19:34

                lol sorry

                the bugbears I've had is UVmapping and OBJ export..and this solves both in one shot.. I'm kinda excited lol

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                  Whaat
                  last edited by 19 Nov 2009, 20:44

                  @unknownuser said:

                  khai - you have to sell it man!
                  let's see some pictures of what you've come up with πŸ˜„

                  Yeah...let's see some pictures of what you guys can do with this! πŸ˜„

                  SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                    Stinkie
                    last edited by 20 Nov 2009, 10:09

                    Thanks, Dale. Will try this with Modo.

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                      EarthMover
                      last edited by 20 Nov 2009, 12:27

                      Dale, tested with 3ds Max and it worked flawlessly on this teardrop shape using the Unwrap UVW modifier. Thanks for the plugin. It will fix a lot of headaches!!

                      One of the issues is that once a UV is imported, it does not "stick" to the geometry it was assigned to. For example if I did not like this brick and wanted to replace it with another material, the UV's become scrambled again. Also when I try to undo after importing the UV's, I get a SU crash.


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                      UV plug test_max.jpg

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                        Whaat
                        last edited by 20 Nov 2009, 14:15

                        @earthmover said:

                        Dale, tested with 3ds Max and it worked flawlessly on this teardrop shape using the Unwrap UVW modifier. Thanks for the plugin. It will fix a lot of headaches!!

                        Great! Another app to add to the list! Thanks for testing πŸ˜„

                        @unknownuser said:

                        One of the issues is that once a UV is imported, it does not "stick" to the geometry it was assigned to. For example if I did not like this brick and wanted to replace it with another material, the UV's become scrambled again. Also when I try to undo after importing the UV's, I get a SU crash.
                        Yeah, I hate that SketchUp does not keep UVs when switching materials. I'll look into that crash, too. Thanks!

                        SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                          NewOne
                          last edited by 20 Nov 2009, 14:18

                          @whaat said:

                          @earthmover said:

                          Dale, tested with 3ds Max and it worked flawlessly on this teardrop shape using the Unwrap UVW modifier. Thanks for the plugin. It will fix a lot of headaches!!

                          Great! Another app to add to the list! Thanks for testing πŸ˜„

                          @unknownuser said:

                          One of the issues is that once a UV is imported, it does not "stick" to the geometry it was assigned to. For example if I did not like this brick and wanted to replace it with another material, the UV's become scrambled again. Also when I try to undo after importing the UV's, I get a SU crash.
                          Yeah, I hate that SketchUp does not keep UVs when switching materials. I'll look into that crash, too. Thanks!

                          Can you write the UV data in an attribute? And using it from there... It would increase the size of the file, I think... for each face to write separate UV. But it can be a way.

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                            Whaat
                            last edited by 20 Nov 2009, 14:28

                            @newone said:

                            Can you write the UV data in an attribute? And using it from there... It would increase the size of the file, I think... for each face to write separate UV. But it can be a way.

                            Yes, you can. I use that method in SkIndigo but I have not yet added the feature to UVTools.

                            SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                              NewOne
                              last edited by 20 Nov 2009, 14:31

                              @whaat said:

                              @newone said:

                              Can you write the UV data in an attribute? And using it from there... It would increase the size of the file, I think... for each face to write separate UV. But it can be a way.

                              Yes, you can. I use that method in SkIndigo but I have not yet added the feature to UVTools.

                              When using Oscar's UV mapping and tried to render with Maxwellrender I noticed that it exported a bitmap for each face and made a copy of used material for each exported bitmap. So, I had situations when I had 1000 materials just for one object πŸ˜•
                              This is strange... I was eexpecting that the bitmap to be folded around object.

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                                jeff hammond
                                last edited by 21 Nov 2009, 05:02

                                @whaat said:

                                I have NOT yet tested this plugin on a Mac but I suspect that it will work fine.

                                nah, it doesn't even appear in the context menu.. (well, the spherical & cylindrical still do but that's it)

                                edit-
                                haha.. hold on a minute.. i guess i'm in the wrong place because it is in the plugins menu.. πŸ˜†

                                [cut me some slack though..it's friday night and i'm messing around with wine & UV mapping)

                                dotdotdot

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                                  Khai
                                  last edited by 21 Nov 2009, 05:15

                                  should one drink and draw? πŸ‘Ώ

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                                    jeff hammond
                                    last edited by 21 Nov 2009, 05:55

                                    ha.. sure - just don't look at the drawings in the morning and everything will be okay.

                                    the plugin works on mac just fine (tested using argile)
                                    i don't think that's the right app for me but that's beside the point..

                                    dotdotdot

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                                      princedragoncok
                                      last edited by 22 Nov 2009, 14:19

                                      Thankyou Whaat for this fantastic plugin. I tried it with UVLayout. It failed to work with Sketchup 6 and had me feeling gutted that I had spent a few hours learning uvlayout for no reason. Then tried it with Sketchup 7 and it worked thankfully!

                                      @earthmover said:

                                      One of the issues is that once a UV is imported, it does not "stick" to the geometry it was assigned to. For example if I did not like this brick and wanted to replace it with another material, the UV's become scrambled again. Also when I try to undo after importing the UV's, I get a SU crash.

                                      Yes, the uv's will become scrambled momentarily when you change to a completely different material, but go back to the uvtools in the plugins menu and re-import your external uv settings onto the newly scrambled material and it will revert back to the pervious mapping settings you had but with the new material.

                                      So here is a quick example of the plugin in action:

                                      In su7 before:

                                      http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p420/princedragoncok/Untitled-2.jpg

                                      With the plugin applied using uvlayout:

                                      http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p420/princedragoncok/Untitled2-1.jpg

                                      I have run into perhaps a bug though.. while I set up the uv mapping correctly in uvlayout - I got an error message when importing into sketchup. It told me import successful but 1 face failed.. This is the result:

                                      Before:

                                      http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p420/princedragoncok/Untitled6-1.jpg

                                      After (notice the scrambling along the center)

                                      http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p420/princedragoncok/Untitled7-2.jpg

                                      I have one more question which isn't related to the plugin but something I have experienced myself (with my basic uvmapping skills) and is something I also noticed in Whaat's videos. When I split open my mesh to flatten it, when it reassembles the joining seam never lines up correctly... any simple suggestions to combat this?? i'm thinking there must be some sort of weld function i'm missing inside the uvprogram. Here's an illustration anyway:

                                      http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p420/princedragoncok/Untitled4-1.jpg

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                                        Whaat
                                        last edited by 23 Nov 2009, 18:58

                                        @princedragoncok said:

                                        Thankyou Whaat for this fantastic plugin. I tried it with UVLayout. It failed to work with Sketchup 6 and had me feeling gutted that I had spent a few hours learning uvlayout for no reason. Then tried it with Sketchup 7 and it worked thankfully!

                                        Are you sure it only works in SU7? If so, that's very strange.

                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        I have run into perhaps a bug though.. while I set up the uv mapping correctly in uvlayout - I got an error message when importing into sketchup. It told me import successful but 1 face failed.. This is the result:

                                        It looks like from your image that more than one face failed. This 'bug' seems to be caused from SketchUp not 'liking' the UVs that are generated from the external application. I'm not sure how fixable it is...

                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        I have one more question which isn't related to the plugin but something I have experienced myself (with my basic uvmapping skills) and is something I also noticed in Whaat's videos. When I split open my mesh to flatten it, when it reassembles the joining seam never lines up correctly... any simple suggestions to combat this?? i'm thinking there must be some sort of weld function i'm missing inside the uvprogram. Here's an illustration anyway:

                                        Seams are (by definition) discontinuities in the UV coordinates. I think the only way to avoid seams is to use spherical and cylindrical mapping. I don't have a ton of experience with UV software. There might be a weld-type function somewhere that will align the UVs along both edges of a seam.

                                        SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                                          vidy
                                          last edited by 24 Nov 2009, 22:31

                                          yes whaat, it failed in sketch up 6.. could it be fixed? πŸŽ‰

                                          still so much to learn..

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