[Plugin] Material Tools

thomthom · 19 Aug 2010, 13:25

Al-ka-zam!

TIG · 19 Aug 2010, 13:45

Hi Thom,
sorry for bumping the topic... Could you add "Remove materials applied to back faces"? (Or is there a plugin that does that already?)

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=264134#p264134 = My recent tools include three options:

If a face has no front-material but does have a back-material it reverses the face and moves the back-material onto the front keeping the UV mapping etc. It works on selected faces, and after a confirmation-dialog faces in groups, components, or just 'all'.
If a face has a front-material and also has a back-material it reverses the face and moves the back-material onto the front keeping the UV mapping etc and erases the other material - i.e. the back-material is finally defaulted [it is 'forced' - use with care!]. It works only on selected faces.
It removes back-materials from all selected faces, and after a confirmation-dialog faces in groups, components, or just 'all'.

Gaieus · 19 Aug 2010, 14:33

Cool, TIG, thanks! I knew I remembered reading something but you guys spoil us with the abundance of new plugins every day so it's really hard to keep up with the development!

Ben Ritter · 19 Aug 2010, 14:47

Thomas, thank you.

Zacchia · 19 Aug 2010, 15:08

thanks for this plugin!!

thomthom · 21 Oct 2010, 19:24

Some various updates to this plugin - renamed it as well.

caleidos4d · 21 Oct 2010, 19:47

Thanks thomthom

CAntonis · 21 Oct 2010, 20:17

Thank U.

It 'll come in handy! Thats for sure!

CAntonis

dedmin · 22 Oct 2010, 08:44

Instance Material to Faces paints materials also to the back faces. Apply Color Adjustments bugsplats SketchUP when nothing is selected. The names are somehow misleading because this tools work on a selection - maybe to put them on the right click menu when click on the selection or add "selected" to the name.
WinXp SP3
SketchUP 8

thomthom · 22 Oct 2010, 10:37

@dedmin said:

Instance Material to Faces paints materials also to the back faces.

Yes - by design to preserve the same visual appearance.

@dedmin said:

Apply Color Adjustments bugsplats SketchUP when nothing is selected.

It doesn't use the selection at all - it processes all colour adjusted textures in the model. Got a sample model where this occurs? I've not seen any bugplats with this. Can't reproduce it either.

@dedmin said:

The names are somehow misleading because this tools work on a selection - maybe to put them on the right click menu when click on the selection or add "selected" to the name.

Not all work on the selection.

dedmin · 22 Oct 2010, 10:46

Itis a clean file - nothing there

thomthom · 22 Oct 2010, 10:49

I tried with a completely empty file - no splat.

Admin or user account?

dedmin · 22 Oct 2010, 10:52

Video_2010-10-22_135039.wmv
Admin

thomthom · 22 Oct 2010, 10:59

And you said it does this if the selection was empty?
It doesn't always do this?

dedmin · 22 Oct 2010, 11:07

Video_2010-10-22_140535.wmv

thomthom · 22 Oct 2010, 11:12

So it crashes all the time? No exceptions?

dedmin · 22 Oct 2010, 11:19

As far as I tried - yes.

thomthom · 22 Oct 2010, 11:19

Ok - I'll see if I can make a debug version to detect where it splats.

ray678 · 2 Dec 2010, 18:03

thanks for sharing

spence · 3 Dec 2010, 17:30

This is a great plugin Thomas, thanks