[Plugin] SurfaceGen (0.9.0b) — 28 April 2012
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This is very cool.
Two questions:
Is there any noise available? If not that would be a great addition.
I've tried with rand but that isn't noise.
A few links to good sites with functions and equations for surfaces would also help getting up to speed.
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I've updated the first post with version 0.8.
@Pixero
What exactly do you mean by noise? Surely just adding (rand-0.5) will put noise on the graph? -
Thanks, Diggsey.
Just a minor annoyance. Since the dialog steals the focsus, whenever I select a Surface, my SU shortcuts don't work. For example, select the Surface to move it - press the 'm' shortcut to Move it - can't Move it because the dialog got the keypress.
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Unfortunately, I don't think there's a way to give focus back to SketchUp from ruby. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong!)
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I don't think so either, and I realize a small change in workflow is all that's required - but as the saying goes "old habits die hard." No worries.
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If you pick a surfacegen-entity the surfacegen-dialog appears.
Minimize that surfacegen-dialog.
The focus will then return to the SKP window.
So now you can use shortcuts etc to Move the selected entity etc.
Restore the surfacegen-dialog to change the surfacegen-entity's settings...
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@diggsey said:
What exactly do you mean by noise? Surely just adding (rand-0.5) will put noise on the graph?
With random numbers there is no relationship between a given random and the next random.
Noise however, produces a naturally ordered smooth sequence of numbers with makes it more useful when creating surfaces or textures. (Think surface displacement to create waves and clouds.)
Here's a few links that explain it better than I can:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_noise
http://www.noisemachine.com/talk1/
http://webstaff.itn.liu.se/~stegu/simplexnoise/simplexnoise.pdf -
Instant roof.
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@diggsey said:
Just uploaded a fairly major update to the first post!
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@d12dozr
Helpful error message are now shown when an expression is invalid.Thank you...helps me take my baby steps
One thing...when I start a new SU file from File -> New, the dialog for SurfaceGen doesn't pop up. It does work if I close SU down completely and restart. I can draw the boundary box, but then cannot do anything else. I opened the Ruby Console while opening a new file, but didn't get any error messages.
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nice roof Pixero
but your fonction is not visible.
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-abs(x)+sin(8*y)
The rest I think you can see in the picture.
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Thanks Diggsey for this incredible plugin!
I have translated the plugin to spanish language.
SurfaceGen v0.8 spanish version -
nice plugin....THX
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Me gusta este pluguin,se ve interesante, pero lo veo un poco complicado y de poco uso en Arquitectura, no sé si en otras carreras sea tan útil. Voy a buscarle una función. gracias Oxer.
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@Diggsey
great plugin ! great job ! -
El otro dia dije "Gracias Oxer" cuando en realidad quería decir "Gracias Diggsey"
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a test :
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I feel like a 5 year old. The geometric forms created are gorgeous and I haven't the faintest idea how to use this.
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Thank you very much! Good plugin
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