[Plugin][Code]SKMtools,Material/ImageTools

[Box]

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

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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:In these sub-sub-folders you have...
andand 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'

[Box]

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

[sahi]

@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" он
path = File.dirname(FILE) + "/SKMtools"

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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" он
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...

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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" он
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...

[sahi]

@tig said:

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

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.

[Box]

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.

[TIG]

@sahi said:

@tig said:

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

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...

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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...

[Box]

Perfect Tig, thanks, works now.

[TIG]

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...

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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...

[ken]

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

[TIG]

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

[xrok1]

WOW!
good work

[erikB]

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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erikB

Another typo in my code 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

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Here's an update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
The 'ImageTrimmer' now has an option to simplify the outline and a new separate tool to do this post processing too.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE!

There has been a lone report of these tools not working - with a '.jar' file 'opening' rather than 'running'!
Many of these tools use small Java '.jar' executable files that do specific tasks like zip/unzip and image manipulation.

I have found that I can reproduce this weirdness IF I let a 'zip/unzip' application like AlZip or WinRar 'poach' the '.jar' file-type as one that it will open. If so then when Ruby tries to 'open' a '.jar' file instead of it 'executing' in Java [like it should], it 'opens' in the decompression application...

The solution = look at your WinRar etc settings and ensure '.jar' is NOT one of its file-types for opening...