[Plugin] Bitmap To Mesh

thomthom · 7 Feb 2011, 14:14

That mesh I got from that image you posted was pretty dense. 85K triangles.
I ran CleanUp on it afterwards, resulting in 34K triangles.

If SU is running out of memory, I'd suggest you try with a smaller bitmap. Also, try to run CleanUp before exporting to get rid of co-planar faces.

jeffschaid01 · 7 Feb 2011, 14:15

Thanks very much for the help. The cpu usage is at about 250,000k when the export process hits 49% then climbs to 270k and the program crashes and closes. Is this beyond SU capabilities?

thomthom · 7 Feb 2011, 14:28

No - it'd be at about 2GB. (Unless you have a 64bit OS and SU8M1 with more than 4GB RAM installed - then it can use up to 4GB.)
It must be something else.

jeffschaid01 · 7 Feb 2011, 14:31

Is the "cleanup" process a function of SU?

thomthom · 7 Feb 2011, 14:33

@jeffschaid01 said:

Is the "cleanup" process a function of SU?

It's another plugin of mine: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=22920

jeffschaid01 · 7 Feb 2011, 14:37

Great. I will get this installed as well. Did you have a chance to take a look at the photos of the model I emailed you yesterday? If so, can that be achieved with this program?

thomthom · 7 Feb 2011, 14:42

@jeffschaid01 said:

Great. I will get this installed as well. Did you have a chance to take a look at the photos of the model I emailed you yesterday? If so, can that be achieved with this program?

Well, it generates the mesh. And I'd think that if you closed that mesh into a solid it should be possible to 3d point the model.

The problem seem to be the exporting. I also see the crashes. I even ran CleanUp on the mesh and it crashed.

Try to scale down the bitmap to half the size and see if it still crashes then.

jeffschaid01 · 7 Feb 2011, 14:59

Scaled down and unfortunately still having the same problem. You mentioned closing the mesh into a solid, is SU capable of completing a task like this? If not, any recommendations as far as a software program that may be capable of creating such a model?

GUNAWAN W · 7 Feb 2011, 19:29

was waiting for this for alooong time,
Awsome! Thanks thomthom

thomthom · 8 Feb 2011, 18:53

Version 0.4.0b

Progress feedback

(And I managed to delete one of the example images in the original post. No undo... )

KulaCZEk · 19 Feb 2011, 21:00

hi there,
Its there any posibility to reduce polygons? I tried Polyreduce plugin, which is on forum, but it doesnt work well. And my second question is about performance. I am using iMac, 2.66ghz, 4gb ram, nv9400. On this platform take generating of 150x150px height map around 4. minutes. Can you recomend something to speed it up?

thomthom · 20 Feb 2011, 17:08

@kulaczek said:

Its there any posibility to reduce polygons?

@kulaczek said:

Can you recomend something to speed it up?

Scale the bitmap down before processing it. Smaller image = simpler mesh = faster generation.

ichi · 21 Apr 2011, 01:21

Thanks for the update thomthom,it's one of my favorite plugins

66searcher · 22 Apr 2011, 12:13

@ TT : well done ! it's great plugin .

yuchunGong · 23 May 2011, 05:55

daveydave · 30 May 2011, 08:07

thanks, works in verion 6 too.

kgregorian · 28 Jul 2011, 19:18

Hey everyone, I am new to these forums and I have a quick question, I'm sorry in advance if it's already been answered. I just downloaded this plugin, and placed it in the right location...I have a Mac, so I wen to my internal hdd>app support>google sketchup 8>sketchup>plugins. Yet when I open sketchup it says the following: 'Error Loading File tt_bitmap2mesh.rb no such file to load -- TT_Lib2/core.rb'. This happened to me before, what I did to correct it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Gaieus · 28 Jul 2011, 19:39

You have missed the "Requirements" in the first post:

You also need this plugin:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=63393

kgregorian · 28 Jul 2011, 19:43

@gaieus said:

You have missed the "Requirements" in the first post:

[attachment=0:2ey2mpwh]tt-lib.png[/attachment:2ey2mpwh]
You also need this plugin:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=63393

Oh ok that makes sense, thanks for the help!

marcomartim · 23 Sept 2011, 14:12

I've downloaded and
put the two files in the folder plugin (SU)

does not work (in SU7 and SU8)

I've downloaded tt_bitmap2mesh and TT_Lib2 - 2.5.8 (also tested TT_Lib)
put the 2 files in the folder plugin

does not work (in SU7 and SU8)

I've used this plugin often with WinXP on the old PC, I am now using Win7 64

Thanks a solution.