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    cotty
    last edited by 26 Nov 2012, 06:20

    @thomthom said:

    Ah, yes. Soft-selection is affected by proximity of the selected vertices - not connected distance. I have it on my list to implement a soft-selection that acts upon connected distance that would have solved your problems in this particular case. Unfortunately that doesn't help you now. 😞

    No (urgent) problem because I'm only playing around πŸ˜‰
    Should a "Select only visible" does help anyway to reduce the selection?

    @unknownuser said:

    would putting part of the model on a different layer and hiding it help to get only one surface's verts?

    Yes, a selection with no soft selection (r=0) and grouping these vertices for soft selection is a workaround...

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      thomthom
      last edited by 26 Nov 2012, 08:31

      @unknownuser said:

      would putting part of the model on a different layer and hiding it help to get only one surface's verts?

      I was about to say no - but then gave it a second thought and tried it. And yes, it works. Hiding the geometry you don't want affected will prevent them from being affected by soft-selection. πŸ˜„
      I think I might have to add that to the FAQ. Nice trick.

      @cotty said:

      Should a "Select only visible" does help anyway to reduce the selection?
      No - it would only effect selected vertices - not the soft-selection.

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        pbacot
        last edited by 26 Nov 2012, 10:03

        Just grouping the faces on the far side protects them--or am I missing the point?

        But you have to be sure your operation doesn't affect the boundary vertices or you'll have trouble getting the shape back together again.

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          thomthom
          last edited by 26 Nov 2012, 10:16

          @pbacot said:

          Just grouping the faces on the far side protects them--or am I missing the point?

          That is one possibility, yes. But as you mention - you might end up with not being able to merge the vertices again. Simply hiding the stuff you don't want affected solves it without having to modify the mesh.

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            d12dozr
            last edited by 26 Nov 2012, 10:41

            @thomthom said:

            ...I have it on my list to implement a soft-selection that acts upon connected distance that would have solved your problems in this particular case...

            πŸ‘ πŸ‘ I was also wishing for this a few days ago.

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              pbacot
              last edited by 26 Nov 2012, 11:11

              OH, now I see! It somehow retains connection, even when your selection's along the boundary, but still doesn't include the hidden parts in the selection. Ingenious.

              MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                thomthom
                last edited by 11 Dec 2012, 10:28

                SCF Premium members can now buy Vertex Tools for a discounted price of 16$

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                  pbacot
                  last edited by 11 Dec 2012, 18:11

                  Thanks TT. I already have it. How much for Bezier Surface?

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                    thomthom
                    last edited by 11 Dec 2012, 18:40

                    Not sure what Bezier Surface will be priced at. But existing Vertex Tools customer will get a discount.

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                      pbacot
                      last edited by 11 Dec 2012, 19:00

                      Heh, just prodding. Can't be had for any price as yet. πŸ˜‰

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                        Mistro11
                        last edited by 11 Dec 2012, 20:04

                        Just bought it!!! Great plugin TT! I think my arsenal of tools is pretty beefed up now. Thanks.

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                          thomthom
                          last edited by 11 Dec 2012, 20:16

                          @pbacot said:

                          Heh, just prodding. Can't be had for any price as yet. πŸ˜‰

                          πŸ˜„ Yea. It's taking its time. At the moment I'm rewriting a piece of the core which require some larger changes affecting everything. Once it's complete it should allow me to work on the UI features and tools.

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                            thomthom
                            last edited by 11 Dec 2012, 20:16

                            @mistro11 said:

                            Just bought it!!! Great plugin TT! I think my arsenal of tools is pretty beefed up now. Thanks.

                            πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ˜„

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                              panixia
                              last edited by 17 Dec 2012, 14:29

                              i have to model a couple terrific of old sofa/chairs and tried to figure out how to do this.. at the end i managed to do this without using neither vray displacement or artisan/blender wathever subdivision modeling.. just the combination of your brilliant mesh from eightmap plugin and of course VT.. faster and more effective than whatever i could dream of..
                              this is a fast draft anyway, i plan to try a better one, but so far way better and easier than i expected at first.
                              once again, thank you..

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                                panixia
                                last edited by 17 Dec 2012, 14:30

                                just forgot to upload the file.. 😳
                                sofΓ  nonna ricchionacci web.jpg

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                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by 17 Dec 2012, 15:01

                                  That's looking mighty nice! And mighty heavy. Got a pure wireframe screenshot?

                                  I'm curious to how you worked this. How did you combine the mesh from Mesh from Heighmap into this sofa?

                                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                    panixia
                                    last edited by 17 Dec 2012, 15:38

                                    in a pure grey hdr + infinte plane it renders quite fast in vray, few minutes with mediun settings at 2000x1666.. i will try it in a fully lihtened and reflective context to see what appens, i think.
                                    feel free to use this model for anything you like. (maibe doing a rendering of your granny house.. duh) πŸ˜„

                                    edit - the model is slightly more than 4mb and i have never create an account or uploaded something in sketchup wharehouse, so you can download the model from here:
                                    http://www.2shared.com/file/gZ9Jkupc/GRANNYS_SOFA.html

                                    hope it work, let me know..

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                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by 17 Dec 2012, 15:55

                                      That's a nice sample model for me to use when testing Vertex Tools performance. Lots of vertices. And Soft-Selection rainbow looks pretty. πŸ˜„

                                      Mind if I show it off as a user example for Vertex Tools?

                                      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                        panixia
                                        last edited by 17 Dec 2012, 15:56

                                        @thomthom said:

                                        That's a nice sample model for me to use when testing Vertex Tools performance. Lots of vertices. And Soft-Selection rainbow looks pretty. πŸ˜„

                                        Mind if I show it off as a user example for Vertex Tools?

                                        mind? what? i would be relly proud man! 😲

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                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by 17 Dec 2012, 15:59

                                          Sweet! πŸ˜„

                                          If you make more of these I'd love to see some work in progress that display the steps and actions. It'd be really nice to show this on the Vertex Tools site and G+ galleries.

                                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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