[Plugin] Sketchup Ivy

TIG · 10 Jun 2011, 19:30

The latest version of Safari broke one of my commercial plugins dialogs on MAC!
Now fixed... BUT it's very unforgiving of even minor syntax foibles that used to work anyway - unlike it's precursors and IE [dare I say!]...

rombout · 10 Jun 2011, 19:38

@driven said:

@ Oxer and rombout,

if you swap the html file out of 0.6.3 it's better formated for the mac [and shouldn't ruin anything]

I only get one or 2 leaves with Oxers 0.6, and 0.6.3 has stopped working since I upgraded Safari to 5.0.6.

what Safari versions are you both using?

john

oww...
i fixed it myself by adjusting the dimensions of the popup window in SU. i edited one of the *.rb files.
I also think it doesnt have something to do with safari i use firefox as a standard and a have edited it so that all files will be opened through FF

driven · 10 Jun 2011, 20:49

@rombout said:

I also think it doesnt have something to do with safari i use firefox as a standard and a have edited it so that all files will be opened through FF

SU uses 'Safari' webkit, so anything in a WebDiaolog needs to work on Safari,

for example if you remove your Safari Flash Plugin, Googles Photo Match won't work inside SU.

knowing which Safari version SU has use of can make debugging a bit easier.

cheers
john

rombout · 10 Jun 2011, 23:22

oke here you go

TIG · 11 Jun 2011, 11:30

As the basis of its webdialogs the Sketchup API uses 'IE' on a PC and on a MAC it uses 'Safari' ...
Recent changes to Safari have made it less forgiving than it used to be, IE may well follow suit in its own time.
Now it does things 'by the book' it can break methods which worked on earlier versions, or still work on PC - this happened to some of my code, where I was setting an 'innerHTML' value as an attribute rather than a property - it was working fine on all PCs and MACs for well over a year, then it was suddenly broken on a few MACs...
We [TBD to be precise] finally tracked it down to the initial 'error' in my coding which had actually always worked until Safari got updated and became super-strict - insisting I code things properly [cheek! ]

matidami14 · 15 Jun 2011, 05:07

it doesn't work.

i dont know wat u do with the plugin but a nob, following this steps gets the results thet i get.

may be u have a ivy version better or u change something on the file.

i have SU 8 pro and IVY 1.6.3

EscapeArtist · 15 Jun 2011, 15:37

I thought I posted this in this thread, but it seems to have disappeared. (?!) Anyway, used SUIvy and flipped it upside down, replaced some leaves with flowers and it makes a hanging flower for a window box. If I have time I'll see if I can improve it, but I'm still trying to get the growth right.

pancho179 · 16 Jun 2011, 13:28

Nice Plugin Pierreden!

I see great potential in it, however I can't get it to work.

I see the red outlines perfectly, but when I shift+click in order to "render" the ivy it only constructs the first branch in lines, no faces, no more branches, no leaves, nothing at all.

I don´t know if anyone has had this problem, I skimed through the 250 posts on this thread and didn't see anything similar.

Hope someone can help.

Thanks!

thomthom · 16 Jun 2011, 13:32

@pancho179 said:

Nice Plugin Pierreden!
Hope someone can help.

Open the Ruby Console and try again. See if it reports anything.

vidy · 17 Jun 2011, 03:14

dear pancho,

have you already check on page 17, some issued are solved in that page..

regards,

scrappy24 · 17 Jun 2011, 10:46

Thank you Pierreden, this is very nice! Looking forward for a new Release with new features.

rombout · 18 Jun 2011, 01:21

@scrappy24 said:

Thank you Pierreden, this is very nice! Looking forward for a new Release with new features.

NICE... great result you have there

tibet · 19 Jun 2011, 14:33

hi ,
a very nice plugin,thank you!
do you know how to reset setting please ?
thanks!

bac9-flcl · 20 Jun 2011, 12:17

First of all, awesome work there! Really nice plugin, easy and fun to use.

However I've wanted to ask: is it possible to improve leafs placement anyhow?

At the moment they only look relatively good on ivy grown at a vertical surface because the foliage are always facing downwards. And the problem is not that the default direction is downwards, I can edit leaf components to alter it.

As you can see here, the problem is that growing direction isn't taken into account, so even when ivy is growing over the horizontal surface, leafs are still placed downwards, right into the surface. Still, I see that leaf components aren't facing to the same horizontal angle, and that means that you have some kind of direction check taken into account for leaf placement - just not for the vertical angle.

So, the question is: can you implement vertical direction dependence in addition to existing horizontal one, so that foliage will be placed correctly relatively to branch direction and base surface orientation (floors, ceilings and other cases)?

Also I don't recall any problems in ivy models made with original generator you've mentioned in the first post, so maybe it's possible to use already written advanced foliage placement code from it.

Upd: Oh wait, why scrappy24 render features perfectly proper foliage orientation on the floor?

Onslaught · 22 Jun 2011, 18:53

Awesome plugin. One thing though is that I can't adjust any of the Parameters, any idea what the problem is?

EarthMover · 22 Jun 2011, 21:55

Have any of you checked out the Ivy texture pack that is on the Lutz Ivy generator page? - http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/ There are some great Ivy textures there with bump and spec maps, even a few premade maxwell ivy textures that could be used to replace the ones that come with Sketchup Ivy.

kalu · 6 Jul 2011, 17:17

Hi to all:

I try the IVY plugin is awesome what I see but I don't understand what are the steps to make it grow. Can someone place here the shortcut keys to make it work and grow and show leaves and menu for some reason I cant see the menu I have sketchup pro 8 and Windows 7 64.

Thanks.

lapx · 8 Jul 2011, 06:47

Hello all,

Installed yesterday and was working now i cant get leaves to grow with final shift click

vidy · 8 Jul 2011, 09:31

@kalu said:

Hi to all:

I try the IVY plugin is awesome what I see but I don't understand what are the steps to make it grow. Can someone place here the shortcut keys to make it work and grow and show leaves and menu for some reason I cant see the menu I have sketchup pro 8 and Windows 7 64.

Thanks.

try this kalu:

ALT-Click : Make the ivy grow towards the mouse position (Mac: Cmd)
Mouse-Click : Grow Ivy stem
CTRL-Click : Grow Ivy leafs (Mac: Alt)
SHIFT-Click : Finish Ivy
Keyboard 'i' : Start over

vidy · 8 Jul 2011, 09:34

@lapx said:

Hello all,

Installed yesterday and was working now i cant get leaves to grow with final shift click

maybe you can check on page 17 for this issue..
regards,