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

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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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