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    • Bob JamesB Offline
      Bob James
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      Sorry, TIG: Operator error - I was looking for "SKM...." in the View/Toolbars list not "ImageAnimator" 😳

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      • TIGT Online
        TIG Moderator
        last edited by

        @bob james said:

        Sorry, TIG: Operator error - I was looking for "SKM...." in the View/Toolbars list not "ImageAnimator" 😳

        PEBCAC - Problem Exists Between the Computer and Chair [i.e. YOU πŸ˜‰ ]
        SO is it working now ?
        Do you get the Menu entry too - see my recent post about this...
        The Menu AND the Toolbar are both named ' ImageAnimator'

        TIG

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        • BoxB Offline
          Box
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          I don't think its a PEBCAC for me, I've searched everywhere, not a sausage.

          I've restarted, reextracted, copy and pasted instead of extract all, nothing nadda zilch πŸ’š


          Animation.jpg

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          • TIGT Online
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            Box
            You should have only one new file in the ../Plugins/ folder - SKMtools_loader.rb***
            Inside the Plugins folder you should have a new sub-folder called SKMtools.
            In that folder ../Plugins/SKMtools/ you should have the following files:Capture.PNGIn these sub-sub-folders you have...Capture1.PNG
            andCapture2.PNGand an empty ' Temp' folder.
            Make sure you don't have any of the files in the wrong places from an earlier mis-install - it will screw up the correctly placed ones! ...
            There is an ImageAnimator sub-menu under the main View menu AND also a new toolbar under View > Toolbars - which is also called ImageAnimator........
            ***NOTE: in more recent version it is named SKMtools.rb NOT '_loader.rb'

            TIG

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            • BoxB Offline
              Box
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              It's odd Tig, it's all as you say it should be, but still nothing showing up.
              It's late for me now so I'll have another try with it tomorrow.

              Thanks

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              • S Offline
                sahi
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                @bob james said:

                Really neat effects, TIG, but I've loaded the SKM files into the plugins folder and I don't get any toolbar.

                Hi!
                I have a similar problem arose.

                I made it for myself decided thus

                file SKMtools_loader.rb replaced path ="SKMtools" ΠΎΠ½
                path = File.dirname(FILE) + "/SKMtools"

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                • TIGT Online
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                  @sahi said:

                  @bob james said:

                  Really neat effects, TIG, but I've loaded the SKM files into the plugins folder and I don't get any toolbar.

                  Hi!
                  I have a similar problem arose.
                  I made it for myself decided thus
                  file SKMtools_loader.rb replaced path ="SKMtools" ΠΎΠ½
                  path = File.dirname(FILE) + "/SKMtools"

                  Thanks for the advice BUT
                  path="SKMtools" should work as load "SKMtools/xxx.rb" [when path and the filename are 'added together'] will start in any of the $LOAD_PATH locations which will include ../Plugins/ where SKMtools_loader.rb resides and then SKMtools is that directory up and it looks for the 'file' - I use it all the time to load scripts from subfolders without problem ?
                  Why do you think it isn't working for just some users ??
                  It works fine for me... πŸ˜•

                  TIG

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                  • TIGT Online
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                    @tig said:

                    @sahi said:

                    @bob james said:

                    Really neat effects, TIG, but I've loaded the SKM files into the plugins folder and I don't get any toolbar.

                    Hi!
                    I have a similar problem arose.
                    I made it for myself decided thus
                    file SKMtools_loader.rb replaced path ="SKMtools" ΠΎΠ½
                    path = File.dirname(FILE) + "/SKMtools"

                    Thanks for the advice BUT...........
                    path="SKMtools" should work as load "SKMtools/xxx.rb" [when path and the filename are 'added together'] will start in any of the $LOAD_PATH locations which will include ../Plugins/ where SKMtools_loader.rb resides and then SKMtools is that directory up and it looks for the 'file' - I use it all the time to load scripts from subfolders without problem ?
                    Your example will work - although I'd use path=File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),"SKMtools") BUT the other method will work anyway 😞
                    Why do you think it isn't working for just some users ??
                    It works fine for me... πŸ˜•

                    TIG

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                      sahi
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                      @tig said:

                      Why do you think it isn't working for just some users ??
                      It works fine for me... πŸ˜•

                      I have it too did not work, until I made changes after that he earned.

                      I have a folder "Plugins" is a standard set of plug-ins, not something extra.

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                      • BoxB Offline
                        Box
                        last edited by

                        I've tried it again on a different computer and same result. Nothing.

                        Just to be sure, I downloaded the .zip, double click, select extract all, browse to Plugin folder, extract all. Should I be doing anything else, or perhaps there is another file from one of your other tools that I am missing.

                        Other thoughts would be,

                        I may have a conflicting plugin

                        or

                        I have sketchup installed in the default location, ie: in program files.

                        I just installed your other plugin, Manifold in exactly the same way and it works perfectly.

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                        • TIGT Online
                          TIG Moderator
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                          @sahi said:

                          @tig said:

                          Why do you think it isn't working for just some users ??
                          It works fine for me... πŸ˜•

                          I have it too did not work, until I made changes after that he earned.

                          I have a folder "Plugins" is a standard set of plug-ins, not something extra.

                          Sahi / Box

                          I think I have the cause...
                          If there's an obscure script [that I don't know of] that loads before SKMtools_loader.rb and it has code outside of its methods that is permanently changing the current directory [ill-advisedly] then my method will fail when using ' Dir' [but not ' load']. Sahi's method [or something like it] will work as it uses an 'absolute' and not 'relative' path. To check what the current directory is after startup type Dir.pwd in the Ruby Console - it should return the ../Plugins/ folder where SKMtools_loader.rb resides - if not then we know something is changing the pwd.

                          There's now an updated SKMtools_loader.rb file - please replace the one in the ../Plugins/ folder with this one, and retry. I have included this file in an update of the zipped set in the first post too...
                          NOTE: more recent versions do NOT need/use SKMtools_loader.rb.
                          Only install the files from the RBZ set...

                          TIG

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                          • TIGT Online
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                            http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677 Here is an updated version with the 'loader' script adjusted to avoid earlier loading scripts messing up the 'dir/load' paths...

                            TIG

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                            • BoxB Offline
                              Box
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                              Perfect Tig, thanks, works now.

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                              • TIGT Online
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                                Here's an update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
                                It includes new methods:-

                                Material.save_texture_and_thumbnail(folder)

                                • saves Material's texture [if any] and its thumbnail [png] into a subfolder named after the material in 'folder' - returns that subfolder path or nil.

                                SKM.save_texture_and_thumbnail(path_skm, folder)

                                • saves SKM's texture [if any] and its thumbnail [png] to a subfolder named after the SKM in 'folder' - returns taht subfolder path or nil

                                SKM.extract(path_skm, 'folder')

                                • extracts all of the SKM's data into a 'hash': if the optional 'folder' is given the files from the SKM are extracted into a subfolder named after the SKM in 'folder'. All of the available SKM data is accessible from the 'hash', if 'folder' is given then the paths to the texture/thumbnail etc are accessible...

                                ImageAnimator

                                • new menu items 'Make_Unique' and 'Clone'.

                                See individual tools threads for more details...

                                TIG

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                                • TIGT Online
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                                  Here's another update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
                                  It contains a new tool ' gifxtractor' which lets you quickly extract PNG files for each frame in a given animated GIF file...

                                  TIG

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                                  • kenK Offline
                                    ken
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                                    TIG

                                    It appears that the version, ....3a.zip is missing two images for the last two menu items, make unique and clone.

                                    Thanks for all of your work.

                                    Ken

                                    Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                                    • TIGT Online
                                      TIG Moderator
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                                      Ken, the two new ' ImageAnimator' tools ' Make_Unique' and ' Clone' should only have appeared in the View > ImageAnimator sub-menu as they are not that often used - the toolbar buttons were a result of a typo in my code 😳
                                      This is the updated version ..13b...http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677

                                      TIG

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                                      • X Offline
                                        xrok1
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                                        WOW! 😲
                                        good work πŸ‘

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                                        • erikBE Offline
                                          erikB
                                          last edited by

                                          tig,
                                          fantastic ruby !
                                          Only I can't seem to find the "make unique button"
                                          In stead I see two times : set folder from selected images to Nil ?

                                          greetings,

                                          erikB

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                                          • TIGT Online
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                                            erikB

                                            Another typo in my code πŸ˜’ the latest [corrected] version is here
                                            http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
                                            This version also includes 'ImageTrimmer' - a tool to trim around transparent areas in a .png Image and make a new Component - useful to trim around 'cardboard' cutout people from photos etc... see here for more details http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=294815#p294815

                                            TIG

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