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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      Of course I have tested it with v8M3 [probably some months before you ๐Ÿ˜‰ ]
      I even just retested it to make sure I wasn't going mad ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
      Your cut down file-sets look fine to me - incidentally you Tools folder ought to have two other .rb files by default 'dynamiccomponnents' and 'sandboxtools'... I assume you had excluded those too...

      When you run my tools what happens exactly ?
      Do you get error messages in the Ruby Console ?
      Do you get dialogs to open ?
      Does ANYTHING happen ?
      Are there 'crashes' etc ??
      When you select a face with a material on its front that has a texture what happens.

      Are you 100% sure that what you are looking at is the face's front.
      Backs are NOT adjustable.
      This could be your issue... but without the SKP, who knows ??
      View in Monochrome mode with a distinctive color for the back-face material [e.g. bright-blue] and check that you are not adjusting the unseen rear, which is in fact what should be the 'front'.
      If you have messed up there are tools like my 'FixReverseFaceMaterials' which flip over faces and materials so that the texture is then on the front AND the front is facing where the back used to be...

      If all else fails post or PM the SKP [zipped] and explain what is is you are trying to do...

      TIG

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        the.pjt
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        oh .... yes TIG .... it was back face ... the blue ... he he ... I didn't know that .. I thought your tools works on every face sides .. and by default I drew a revered face - the back side !! the rectangle tool creates back sided face ...

        I did everything I knew to fix it ... !! ... he he .. I completely copy and pasted all my ruby files .. and cleaned up all my plugins ... I rearranged and relocated all my toolbars several times ..

        and all of them was useless tasks .. everything was OK ... !! ... he he ...

        thanks TIG .. I was so stupid ๐Ÿ˜„

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          Good ๐Ÿ˜’
          We have the answer - PEBCAC.***

          The tip is, "Make sure you model your faces the right way round!"
          It's ymportant when adjusting textures and also when exporting you model to most 3rd party renderers, which will usually ignore materials on back-faces and dutifully render the unseen front-faces ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

          ***Problem Exists Between Chair And Computer - i.r. YOU ๐Ÿ˜‰

          TIG

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          • B Offline
            Buki
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            I didn't see anyone else having this problem, but I'm not getting the toolbar following install. The plugin does show in the plugin drop down menu. I did already have a TIGtools folder and extracted the contents of the TIGtools folder included in the download to that location. This is certainly a user error, any ideas
            chrisa

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              Buki

              If you get the menu items working, then it is loading OK.
              So first a simple question...
              Have you activated the Toolbar from Views > Toolbars ?
              By default it's inactive after the initial installation...
              Even if you had misplaced the toolbar-buttons' png files the activated toolbar would still exist, but with blank buttons ??

              TIG

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              • B Offline
                Buki
                last edited by

                @tig said:

                Buki

                If you get the menu items working, then it is loading OK.
                So first a simple question...
                Have you activated the Toolbar from Views > Toolbars ?
                By default it's inactive after the initial installation...
                Even if you had misplaced the toolbar-buttons' png files the activated toolbar would still exist, but with blank buttons ??

                Yep, like I guessed, user error. I didn't see that it was off by default in the tools menu. I was a bit hasty in asking, thank you for getting back to me so quickly

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                  bigteks
                  last edited by

                  awesome thanks ๐Ÿ˜

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                  • okomtaO Offline
                    okomta
                    last edited by

                    thanks man,,very helpful,,

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                      marco62118
                      last edited by

                      good evening
                      I try to use your pluggin to change the size of a tiling texture, but each time the texture turns along the dimension changes

                      thank you in advance

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                      • TIGT Offline
                        TIG Moderator
                        last edited by

                        @marco62118 said:

                        good evening
                        I try to use your pluggin to change the size of a tiling texture, but each time the texture turns along the dimension changes

                        thank you in advance
                        You need to use the scale and then the position tool together...
                        You haven't explained very clearly what it is you want to do and what it's doing ๐Ÿ˜•

                        TIG

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                          marco62118
                          last edited by

                          good evening
                          ย  I do not understand the plugin does not respond
                          dialog boxes are displayed correctly, but nothing happens

                          Can you help me?

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                          • CadFatherC Offline
                            CadFather
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                            the plugin only works on front faces (not sure why) - so, check that your texture is painted facing front and then try again. perhaps TIG can make it work on back face as well in the future.

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
                              last edited by

                              These tools only works on front-faces... because that's where textured-material ought to be applied.

                              Applying a material onto a back-face is just bad practice.
                              Back-faces should never be visible.
                              Modeling with reversed faces can lead to many problems when pushpulling, applying cutting components etc, and when the SKP is exported, used in many rendering applications etc, etc...

                              The native context-menu Texture tool will adjust front/back-face textures, depending on which side of the face you are seeing... use that if you insist on sloppy modeling.

                              BUT I deliberately discourage the application of materials on back-faces.
                              So these tools will only ever adjust textured-materials applied onto front-faces.

                              Use Monochrome mode, with a contrasting back-face default-material in the Style, to check that you are not modeling 'inside out' ๐Ÿ˜•
                              The context-menu items Reverse and Orient are useful to fix reversed faces as you model - shortcut keys is highly recommended. Also use Monochrome as you model to check the correctness of the faces' orientation. Only start applying materials and texturing once the geometry is pretty much resolved... ๐Ÿ˜’

                              TIG

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                              • CadFatherC Offline
                                CadFather
                                last edited by

                                yes, i understand, though i guess that's only if you are using a rendering package, if you use SU for render, than back faces are just as good - and of course when you paint both you don't get those pesky flickering edges.

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                                • ArcA Offline
                                  Arc
                                  last edited by

                                  Eneroth Texture Positioning Tools
                                  http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/eneroth-texture-positioning-tools

                                  Is this same plugin?

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    @arc said:

                                    Eneroth Texture Positioning Tools
                                    http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/eneroth-texture-positioning-tools

                                    Is this same plugin?
                                    No, mine is the original one...

                                    TIG

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                                      Mafalda_Melo_Oliveira
                                      last edited by

                                      How do I install?

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        @mafalda_melo_oliveira said:

                                        How do I install?
                                        Find the tool in the SCF PluginStore [Resources menu first item], get the RBZ and install it with Preferences > Extensions > Install... button in v2013 or v8...
                                        OR get the SketchUcation Plugin Store toolset [second item in that menu or in the first item - under most popular...] - that lets you AutoInstall Plugins from within SketchUp itself...

                                        You need to ensure you have FULL security permissions to your Plugins folder - there are several post covering that...

                                        TIG

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          New version available at the PluginStore http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=329765#p329765

                                          TIG

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                                            anesalesayi
                                            last edited by

                                            thanx man

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