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    solo
    last edited by 6 Oct 2010, 05:12

    @unknownuser said:

    So I notice these wonderful meshes created. How is one controlling the height of the extrusion?

    Color, the darker the black and brighter the white will produce the greatest crests and troughs.

    http://www.solos-art.com

    If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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      Ghalko
      last edited by 6 Oct 2010, 17:57

      After letting a 384x384 (meters) heightmap simmer:
      Yey!

      Arrrggghhh! Why won't it make a face!!! Stupid, no good piece of... Oh look! The line went to the wrong point. Whew... moving on. (My fights with sketchup.)

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        david_h
        last edited by 6 Oct 2010, 18:13

        @solo said:

        Color, the darker the black and brighter the white will produce the greatest crests and troughs.

        I get that easy enough. its all based on contrast. . .so One must go into PhoShop and manipulate and lessen those contrasts before putting it into the plugin? Because when I down loaded the scrolly motif lintel thing, I got all kinds of mess. I just couldn't get my model to look like others were doing. . .

        I'll keep playing with it.

        If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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          jeff hammond
          last edited by 6 Oct 2010, 18:26

          David,
          Use the scale tool to compress it vertically.

          dotdotdot

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            david_h
            last edited by 6 Oct 2010, 19:14

            oh well. . . there's one for the duh thread.

            Thx 😳

            If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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              thomthom
              last edited by 7 Oct 2010, 17:20

              With version 0.2.0 you specify the height your self - either by using the cursor or entering a length in the VCB.

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

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                spence
                last edited by 7 Oct 2010, 19:31

                thomthom, this is very cool. I can hardly believe you got this to work. I use this in Eon-Software's Vue and love it, now that it can be done on SU is incredible. VERY NICELY DONE!

                Spence

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                  david_h
                  last edited by 12 Oct 2010, 21:50

                  Pretty cool little Plugin. thanks for the update. . .. makes it much easier for us idiots. πŸ’š


                  penny 1.jpg


                  penny2.jpg

                  If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                    thohan
                    last edited by 13 Oct 2010, 22:21

                    Thank you for this great plugin. πŸ˜„
                    I did a quick test with it on a picture of a friend of mine with minimal pre-processing (just making the background black) and placed it on a norwegian coin.
                    I think with some more effort, one can achieve much better results.

                    http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8434/smalltest.png

                    It do however generate a mesh that is very big. I suppose merging the squares (?) which lie next to each other in the same height, would make it lighter?

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                      jamalito
                      last edited by 23 Oct 2010, 09:12

                      wow wow wow
                      where have you been ? man
                      I looking for such as plug-in
                      thank you so so much thomthom
                      you helped me
                      because I have a lot pictures I want to do it

                      Albert Einstein:
                      ((I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.))

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                        thomthom
                        last edited by 23 Oct 2010, 09:37

                        @thohan said:

                        It do however generate a mesh that is very big. I suppose merging the squares (?) which lie next to each other in the same height, would make it lighter?

                        Yea, it produces a very dense mesh - You can use my Cleanup script to remove edges between coplanar faces.

                        Nice coin by the way. πŸ˜„

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

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                          marcomartim
                          last edited by 25 Oct 2010, 00:21

                          This plugin is great!

                          I use Sketchup with Phlatscript plugin to generate code G (2.5 D) to use on my CNC Router, lack a 3D plugin for editing G code on Sketchup.

                          For 3D and 4D, still use the Artcam,; Now with this plugin can create 3D models from photos, right in Sketchup.

                          Thank you.

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                            Christmended
                            last edited by 25 Oct 2010, 14:59

                            Thanks for the awesome plugin!

                            Here is a test result I did.


                            Heads screenshot.jpg

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                              Dave R
                              last edited by 25 Oct 2010, 16:16

                              Shaun, that almost looks like a lithophane. Cool.

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                                Heven7_floor
                                last edited by 26 Oct 2010, 14:36

                                Great Plug-in, thank your gift to make SU plugin to display the thing happen πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘

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                                  pichuneke
                                  last edited by 26 Oct 2010, 15:30

                                  The plugin works with bump mapping. I have no idea about what I am saying, but could it work with normal and displacement maps?

                                  I have no idea about programming, except an unfinished Interactive Fiction game 5 years ago in the "popular" inform 6 language 😲 πŸ˜† πŸ˜†

                                  Forgive my spanglish...

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                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by 26 Oct 2010, 15:35

                                    @pichuneke said:

                                    I have no idea about what I am saying, but could it work with normal and displacement maps?

                                    Displacement maps are the same as bump maps - grayscale heightmaps. As for normal maps, I don't really know how they work...

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

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                                      pichuneke
                                      last edited by 26 Oct 2010, 16:49

                                      @thomthom said:

                                      @pichuneke said:

                                      I have no idea about what I am saying, but could it work with normal and displacement maps?

                                      Displacement maps are the same as bump maps - grayscale heightmaps. As for normal maps, I don't really know how they work...

                                      I have found a lot about normal maps here:

                                      Google Search

                                      favicon

                                      (www.google.com)

                                      but it's written in chinese, or C++ ... πŸ˜† I don't know if it may interest you, I was spending my time a bit (as I don't understand a single word πŸ˜„ )

                                      Forgive my spanglish...

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                                        arquitectomaracucho
                                        last edited by 26 Oct 2010, 17:44

                                        excuse my English, Greetings πŸ‘Š
                                        Thomtom greetings, very good tool for many functions πŸ‘ . be possible to add option mesh, giving a percentage between simple and complex mesh, thanks πŸ‘

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                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by 26 Oct 2010, 17:51

                                          @arquitectomaracucho said:

                                          be possible to add option mesh, giving a percentage between simple and complex mesh, thanks πŸ‘

                                          That would be simply resizing the bitmap down - which is much more efficient to do in your favourite image editor than via a Ruby plugin.

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

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