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    • massimoM Offline
      massimo Moderator
      last edited by

      Wow! Looks really interesting and it seems to work fine. Thank you. 😄

      @unknownuser said:

      1. are there any variables, like height or width or anything like that?

      Right click on a tree and you can make almost infinite adjustments and slight variations on a template.
      Just a question: I got a ruby console every time I start SU. Is that normal?

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      • ppoublanP Offline
        ppoublan
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        Hi,
        Yes, this is not just a component loader, but really creates trees. You can adjust parameters with right clicks (see the pdf for doc). Leaves are components, so you can change/update them after creating your tree. I built 10 different templates to illustrate what it can do, but you can create your own tree templates and save them. I'm really interesting in seeing new trees you can create with it playing with parameters.
        The console ruby when starting Sketchup is something I used during development to debug and forgot to remove from the script. Will make the change for the next minor release.
        Yours
        Pascal

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        • massimoM Offline
          massimo Moderator
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          Another thing I noticed: if you make a tree and then immediately purge the model (here I've used TIG's plugin), you'll have a lot of purged elements.
          Cattura.JPG
          Maybe those extra elements are needed for the variations?

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          • KrisidiousK Offline
            Krisidious
            last edited by

            AWESOME...

            By: Kristoff Rand
            Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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            • massimoM Offline
              massimo Moderator
              last edited by

              A couple of things more:
              -the trunk & branches faces are reversed. Anyway the materials seem to be applied on both front & back faces, so not a big deal.
              -oddly when you export a model in Thea for example, the scale of some elements seems different (?). See the picture below.
              tree.jpg

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              • ppoublanP Offline
                ppoublan
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                Thanks you very much for your tests and feedbacks.

                • Scaling : I think it should be escalated to the export/render code to be corrected. It looks like (I’m not sure but suspect, maybe some experts could verify) it has to do with the internal way scales are stored within Sketchup. When you use a transformation matrix, the 16th parameter is a scaling factor that apply to the object in all directions. I think this parameter is not always checked and used by all export/render programs. They only use the xscale,yscale and zcale parameter (1st, 6th, and 11th). Maybe it can explain the differences. I will look if I could enforce the update of the other scaled parameters into the component instance definition.

                Here is an extract from the excellent book “Aumatic Sketchup” that describes this :
                Chapter 4 explained how to create scaling transformations using the scaling method of the Geom::Transformation class. This method accepts a scaling constant, and when you apply the resulting Transformation to an entity, the entity's size will be multiplied by that amount. Let's see the corresponding matrix when we multiply an entity's size by five:
                t = Geom::Transformation.scaling 5.0
                AdvGeom.print_mat t
                g 1.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
                0.000 1.000 0.000 0.000
                0.000 0.000 1.000 0.000
                0.000 0.000 0.000 0.200
                This matrix looks a lot like the identity matrix, but the lower-right element is set to 0.2, which is the reciprocal of the scaling constant (1/5.0 = 0.2). Changing this single element changes the size of a transformed entity, and we can check this by creating a Transformation that shrinks an entity five-fold:

                • Purge of unused elements : yes some materials and components (leaves types) are created and loaded before building the tree to improve performance. I can add automatic deletion of unused elements at the end of the script, but with the risk to delete components loaded by the user or other apps. Do you think Its preferable to add this ? not a great work, very few lines to call.

                • Faces to be reversed, I have to make some more work to correct this. I’m adding this to the bug list.

                Yours
                Pascal

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                • KrisidiousK Offline
                  Krisidious
                  last edited by

                  Is this SketchUp 2013 ready or is it Version 8 only?
                  Will it be added to the SCF Plugin Store?

                  By: Kristoff Rand
                  Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                  • CadFatherC Offline
                    CadFather
                    last edited by

                    Pascal, works fine here - and the trees look great - if you run Thom's 'Cleanup', you can further save yourself 40000 to 60000 polygons. outrageous plugin, this is going to be perfect when 2014 64bit comes out. 😲

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                    • KrisidiousK Offline
                      Krisidious
                      last edited by

                      I guess I can stop waiting on this...

                      favicon

                      (www.theplantfactory-tech.com)

                      By: Kristoff Rand
                      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                      • massimoM Offline
                        massimo Moderator
                        last edited by

                        @ppoublan said:

                        Thanks you very much for your tests and feedbacks.

                        • Scaling : I think...

                        • Purge of unused elements : yes some materials and components...

                        • Faces to be reversed...

                        Yours
                        Pascal

                        Pascal:
                        -Scaling: yeah, maybe Tomasz or other exporter experts can have a look to that;
                        -Purge: no worries, running TIG's plugin is fine;
                        -Faces revesed: as i said not a big deal. 😄

                        Here are some variations on an olive tree template. Just SU's hidden line style. 👍
                        olive_01_reduced.jpg
                        olive_02_reduced.jpg
                        olive_03_reduced.jpg

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                        • KrisidiousK Offline
                          Krisidious
                          last edited by

                          Fantastic Massimo...

                          on revered faces... while this should not be an issue in SU, some renderers will not show backfaces.

                          By: Kristoff Rand
                          Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                          • CadFatherC Offline
                            CadFather
                            last edited by

                            an olive tree with 1.2 million polys - purged and cleaned went down to 900k, then simplified the leaf comp went further down to 85k. ..what a ruby! 😆

                            PS (and that's the sat morning shopping, out of the window..)

                            tree.jpg

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                            • massimoM Offline
                              massimo Moderator
                              last edited by

                              @krisidious said:

                              Fantastic Massimo...

                              on revered faces... while this should not be an issue in SU, some renderers will not show backfaces.

                              But materials seem to be applied on both front and back faces, so this should not be an issue because renderers will "see" the mat on the front face anyway. However I agree that having front faces should be better.

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                              • D Offline
                                driven
                                last edited by

                                hi

                                working on mac mountain lion with SU v2013.

                                PM Chris Fullmer re the scaling, I think he may have an answer...

                                One request I would have is to allow loading from other Folders/Directories, it appears to be hard coded to Plugins Folder.

                                john

                                learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                                • KrisidiousK Offline
                                  Krisidious
                                  last edited by

                                  I think Lumion and Revizto don't show back faces unless they have updated the problem. Revizto has an option to turn them on.

                                  By: Kristoff Rand
                                  Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                                  • Z Offline
                                    Zacchia
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi
                                    Thanks, it's very nice! When open SU this console is also on every start. Why?


                                    screenshot2013_05_25_13_25_31.jpg

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                                    • massimoM Offline
                                      massimo Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      @zacchia said:

                                      Hi
                                      Thanks, it's very nice! When open SU this console is also on every start. Why?

                                      http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=476285#p476285

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                                      • Z Offline
                                        Zacchia
                                        last edited by

                                        @massimo said:

                                        @zacchia said:

                                        Hi
                                        Thanks, it's very nice! When open SU this console is also on every start. Why?

                                        http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=476285#p476285

                                        OK, thanks!

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                                        • OxerO Offline
                                          Oxer
                                          last edited by

                                          Incredible plugin!! 👍
                                          I know is in beta phase but it has a great potential to make fantastic parametric trees.
                                          Like previous comments when I open SU it appears Console window with warning messages, I use SU 8 on mac OSX 10.8.3.
                                          In a quick testing all works fine on Mac, if you want I can help you to give support to translate the plugin to other languages, creating a file with strings for translation, I have done a lot of translations for SU plugins.

                                          "The result is the end what is important is the process" by Oxer
                                          [http://www.oxervision.blogspot.com/(http://www.oxervision.blogspot.com/)]

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                                          • BoxB Online
                                            Box
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                                            He already said he would fix that.


                                            Already answered.JPG

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