SU 9 Wishlist
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Might as well toss my two cents in... some useful, basic changes that are long overdue:
- Select front faces that have no material.
- Put Sketchup.break_edges= true | false into preferences. I almost always have it set to false and typing that into the ruby window each and every time I start is a PITA.
- When rotating a material, please, please, let me type the numeric value. You do it with the rotate tool... why not here as well?
- Give us the means to color the endpoint pixels differently from the line itself. They can be very hard to see in many circumstances.
- Let me define a shortcut for texture rotation.
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@genma saotome said:
- When rotating a material, please, please, let me type the numeric value. You do it with the rotate tool... why not here as well?
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I agree with you Dave...
BUT currently you can select all active faces that don't have a material with this one liner pasted into the Ruby Console or made into a short script...m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;s.clear;m.active_entities.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;Face and not e.material}To set 'break_edges' false UNLESS you set it true [i.e. reverse the usual default] add a script to the Plugins folder called say
#break_edges.rband into it add this one short line of codeSketchup.break_edges=false- now when Sketchup starts it has always 'break_edges' set to 'false'...I agree that the texture rotation should be editable by typing in an angle. It'd make a good addition to thomthom's UVtools - select the face with the texture, run the tool and pick center for rotation [defaults to 1st vertex], 'axle' is set as face.normal, and them either manually move cursor to see texture rotate dynamically, or type an angle in the VCB to rotate it by etc...
The edge ends coloring could be useful in some circumstances.
Being able to shortcut beyond the basic Texture command would be very good too...
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I don't care how naive this seems, but more pushpins for placing photos as texture.
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Well, that's been raised, too. This way we could manipulate UV mapping much more flexibly.
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@gaieus said:
Well, that's been raised, too. This way we could manipulate UV mapping much more flexibly.
Could you please explain what UV mapping is all about?
I think it has to do with photorealistic rendering but I really do not know.
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@jgb said:
@gaieus said:
Well, that's been raised, too. This way we could manipulate UV mapping much more flexibly.
Could you please explain what UV mapping is all about?
I think it has to do with photorealistic rendering but I really do not know.
It's what happens when you adjust a texture using the right-click texture tool...
It about locating, orienting, rotating, scaling, skewing a texture's image so it's applied to a face as you'd like.
For example apply a texture to a sphere and it'll probably look wrong, to make it 'map' better onto the surface's facets you adjust some of the faces' textures UVs [i.e. put simply XYZ >> UVQ, the XYZ are relating to the geometry while UVQ relate to the how the texture is applied to the face with UV corresponding to XY values etc... -
This has been asked before, but my current project needs it in spades.
I'm drawing fairings for my big freighter. That entails drawing a lot of lines that run very close, or co-linear to existing structural lines to get a smooth transition. That will setup my perimeter and control curves that Curviloft will need to make the mesh.
But I need to identify the fairing lines vrs. structural lines in order to refine the curves. The fairing lines are generated in a group so separation is not the problem.
IF I could simply draw lines in colour, or thick/thin that would make it a lot easier to see which line belongs to which part of the structure or fairing. I would convert them to standard line afterwards.
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Thanks Tig; You said "It about locating, orienting, rotating, scaling, skewing a texture's image so it's applied to a face as you'd like."
I have exactly that problem applying a Bamboo texture to a tube for my Silver Dart project. I got it right for a vertical stick (a component), but when I rotate a copy or stretch a copy, it screws up royally.
The Bamboo texture originated from a .JPG photo of a section of bamboo.
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@jgb said:
IF I could simply [b]draw lines in colour,
You can do that. Set the Edge Style to Color by Material, and just paint the colours you want for your edges.
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Note that it's a slower edge style than just all one colour, so you might feel an performance hit on larger models.
But it's a mode I sue a lot when modelling from AutoCAD siteplans. Either colour each edge or simply just Color By Layer. -
Good point, but at this time I'm just using the edge colour (Red Green and blue) to keep track of lines that need to be edited, vrs. OK lines, so the model will always revert to black lines.
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Following on from the Texture-Rotation by typed in angle I wrote a quick tool to do it...
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=329765#p329765 -
I don´t know if anyone already posted one of the following, anyway (i´m almost sure someone has):
- 64 bit
- Multiprocessor support
- grouping Layers in the Layer Window
- grouping Materials
- UV mapping tools
- an improved sky model (like in bryce) with clouds generation, stars in the night etc.
greets, 3rdEye
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@3rdeye said:
I don´t know if anyone already posted one of the following, anyway (i´m almost sure someone has):
- 64 bit
- Multiprocessor support
- UV mapping tools
these three only 1543 times i think... for SU7, 8 and 9
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my wish list :
1-64 bit
2-less bugs please !!!
3-interior lighting fixtures(artificial light sources)
4-supporting right to left languages in 3d text tool.
5-preview for 3d text tool in it's window.
7-plugin manager please
8-improve animation setting & options. like any&every other 3d softwares!
9-enable curved construction lines.
10-improve text & dimension tool.(something like Autocad) -
Ah yes, and not to forget:
- Sketchup Web Player (to view Models like in SU viewer),
Gaieus:
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@3rdeye said:
Ah yes, and not to forget:
- Sketchup Web Player (to view Models like in SU viewer),
i think that's going to happen via collada instead of the end viewer needing to install something on their computer in order to read the files.
mac users can already open/view/navigate collada files without needing to install any sort of viewer and i think it's just a matter of time before it makes its way into the web browsers etc.
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