[Plugin] Sketchup Ivy

charly2008 · 28 Nov 2011, 15:46

Problem solved. The png was saved in my template.

charly2008 · 28 Nov 2011, 16:13

I give it up now. Now the plugin is working again. But now some leaves are again transparent and others not. I probably do not understand the workings of this plugin. I'll wait for an update.

Charly

rombout · 28 Nov 2011, 18:31

@charly2008 said:

I give it up now. Now the plugin is working again. But now some leaves are again transparent and others not. I probably do not understand the workings of this plugin. I'll wait for an update.

Charly

THat's due to the prob that 2 images arent transparent png's open these to in a image editor and make them transparent and than re-import them into SU

charly2008 · 28 Nov 2011, 19:17

Hi Rombout,

@unknownuser said:

THat's due to the prob that 2 images arent transparent png's open these to in a image editor and make them transparent and than re-import them into SU

Thanks for your answer. I have converted the jpg to png. I do not know if I've done anything wrong. I have attached the pngs below. If you watch it once I would be grateful.

Charly

TIG · 28 Nov 2011, 19:33

You seem to be going round in circles.

This zip containing the three adjusted SKPs [and PNGs] that have hidden edges and already use proper transparent PNG files...
Replace those in the Textures folder...
Retry...IvyTexturesSKPs.zip

charly2008 · 28 Nov 2011, 22:55

TIG,

I do not know how I can thank you. Sometimes you appear to me like the Robin Hood of the forum.

Charly

RomB · 4 Dec 2011, 09:25

you need to make reset button. i have made a lot of changes in numbers...and now my ivy don't grow on a wall, it grows in every direction...please can someone share default settings?

thomthom · 4 Dec 2011, 10:35

@romb said:

you need to

Did you mean, "it would be nice with" or "Could you please"?

Just saying, the wording can make a difference. Making freeware stuff and you end up with lots of demands from your users, it can get a bit tiresome. (Spoken by someone who makes lots of freeware.)

TIG · 4 Dec 2011, 12:00

hsh = {
            ;branch   => {
                ;nodesize    => 3,
                ;pattern     => 0.8,
                ;probability => 0.97,
                ;radius      => 0.8,
                ;floatlength => 150,
                ;detail      => 4,
                ;spread      => 0

            },
            ;leaf     => {
                ;pattern     => 1,
                ;probability => 0.7,
                ;size        => 5
            },
            ;gravity  => {
                ;weight => 1,
                ;vector => [0, 0, -1]
            },
            ;wind     => {
                ;weight => 0.1
            },
            ;random   => {
                ;weight => 0.3
            },
            ;adhesion =>{
                ;max_adhesion_distance => 50,
                ;weight                => 0.2
            },
            ;legacy   => {
                ;weight => 0.8
            }

}

The default settings as extracted from the code.
Now you do some work resetting your values manually...

thomthom · 4 Dec 2011, 13:24

No worries.

RomB · 4 Dec 2011, 13:31

sorry for my english at first. not my native - in russian i mean that this option will be very usefull. and of course thanks for that plugin. sorry if i offend somehow someone of developers. sorry please
ps. in russian it's a little bit more words need to be said of simple -you need to make-

RomB · 4 Dec 2011, 13:32

still not on the wall ((( picture above. where's my mistake?

TIG · 4 Dec 2011, 14:14

@romb said:

still not on the wall ((( picture above. where's my mistake?

I don't even have this tool installed !
The default adhesion seems to be 50 in the code I posted...
Why is yours 0.2 [20?] ??
Presumably the higher the adhesion value the more it sticks to the wall ???

RomB · 4 Dec 2011, 20:54

@tig said:

@romb said:

still not on the wall ((( picture above. where's my mistake?

The default adhesion seems to be 50 in the code I posted...
Why is yours 0.2 [20?] ??
Presumably the higher the adhesion value the more it sticks to the wall ???

that's it ) maybe i know english - but no so good till that time. and 0.5 become working not from next ivy, from third. But problem is solved - thx. better to rename adhesion to -sticking- fo rus users

RomB · 5 Dec 2011, 00:10

it won't work properly again, with -adhesion- 0.5 it's still grow in every direction. what's wrong with me? please help me to understand.
ps. it's skp file in archive, my model in wich ivy goes crazy. maybe problem it it?

Land_Mass_2_test_2.rar

zick · 8 Dec 2011, 20:16

wow

iichiversii · 19 Dec 2011, 22:03

Wow Ivy Generator is great, but im having a problem importing the file back into SU, i can export my model from SU into Ivy Gen but when i import it to SU it freezes SU and never recovers, im using free version of SU and using obj importer, any suggestions would be great

farmerjoe50 · 22 Dec 2011, 01:52

I dropped file into plugins folder but it is not showing up in sketchup...I noticed the file is .rar, not a rb file. What is the secret?

TIG · 22 Dec 2011, 09:03

@farmerjoe50 said:

I dropped file into plugins folder but it is not showing up in sketchup...I noticed the file is .rar, not a rb file. What is the secret?

Doh!
A .rar file is a compressed file - like a .zip file - just made by another application.
So, like with a zip file you must extract its contents - i.e. the .rb file and intact subfolder[s] of miscellaneous files that then go into the Plugins folder.
There's a sticky-post in the Plugins Forum about installing tools from zip files - read that - substituting 'rar' when it says 'zip'...

farmerjoe50 · 22 Dec 2011, 13:07

momentary lapse of reason....got it.