[Plugin][$] 3D Tree Maker - New version 1.10.14

leminilab · 26 May 2013, 21:23

yes

Thanks!

ppoublan · 26 May 2013, 21:24

Dear all,
I’m really impressed by the number of interesting comments and feedbacks received on this plugin. And I really like the olive tree variations of Massimo. (Encourage everyone to publish their preferred trees made with the plugin).
Thanks to all of you. I will do my best to improve it in future releases, but as the plugin is free and not my job please be patient. I will need to learn more on dev.
Here are few bug corrections that include :

Reversed faces for the trunk and branches in order for face normals to point outward
Changed the scaling function of flowers to be correctly handled by Thea (and other renders)
Removed the ruby console
Version available on http://3darcstudio.com/en/downloads-files/sketchup-plugins/206-3d-tree-maker-sketchup-plugin
I carefully read all other comments and I’m looking how to integrate them in other devs.
Yours
Pascal

PS: script will be published into the Sketchucation Store, but not ready yet.

Krisidious · 26 May 2013, 21:29

Don't feel rushed Pascal... This is an incredible contribution to the community. Very exciting.

massimo · 27 May 2013, 06:07

Thanks for the very quick fix Pascal.

archigrafix · 27 May 2013, 14:51

Doesnt seem to work with sketchup 7???

Krisidious · 27 May 2013, 15:43

@archigrafix said:

Doesnt seem to work with sketchup 7???

What's happening Arch? error? nothing at all?

archigrafix · 27 May 2013, 15:46

Yes Kris nothing happens at all...just frustration

ppoublan · 27 May 2013, 16:02

@archigrafix said:

Yes Kris nothing happens at all...just frustration

Hi Kris,
Sorry for that but I only tested it on SU8 as dev started after SU8 was available. Do not know what functions are not correctly supported by previous versions.
Do you get at least the menu in plugins ?
I you activate the Ruby console, do you get some messages in the console ?
Yours
Pascal

versus · 27 May 2013, 20:13

I found the problem, perhaps due to a misspelling between lines = begin and = end, this is due only to a point out of place, just before = end, in my case, I have many plugins installed and thought it was due to one that caused the conflict, I tried an installation of SU 8 without additional plugins and charge well, it might be the WXP vs windows vista, in windows vista remove the point of the last sentence of the load file header specifically as follows:

original
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
= end
new
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
= end

in windows vista files are not loaded when I was at the end point of the line before = end, but in windows xp there was no problem loading the plugin

another thing I did was copy the contents of the folder directly in the plugins folder of SU 8

archigrafix · 28 May 2013, 08:06

@ppoublan said:

@archigrafix said:

Yes Kris nothing happens at all...just frustration

Hi Kris,
Sorry for that but I only tested it on SU8 as dev started after SU8 was available. Do not know what functions are not correctly supported by previous versions.
Do you get at least the menu in plugins ?
I you activate the Ruby console, do you get some messages in the console ?
Yours
Pascal

Yes the menu is there...When I choice "Make tree" it returns:

Error: #<RuntimeError: Can't insert empty component.>
(eval):1050:in load' (eval):1050:in initialize'
(eval):1042:in each' (eval):1042:in initialize'
(eval):1217:in new' (eval):1217:in initialize'
(eval):653:in new' (eval):653:in f3das_loadconfiguration'
(eval):651:in each' (eval):651:in f3das_loadconfiguration'
(eval):4443:in require' (eval):4443:in call'

Hope you can help

TIG · 28 May 2013, 10:32

@archgrafix

Are you sure that the specified component SKP exists in the tool's subfolder?

If so can you open it in SketchUp?

If it is getting found, then the 'empty component' error suggest that is either 'empty' [i.e. it contains no entities] or most likely it's been saved as a SketchUp version newer that the version that your current Model is opened in ??
So for example, if the SKPs are v2013 and you try to use them in v8 it'll fail, or
if the SKPs are v8 and you try to use them in v7 it'll fail and so on... Older version SKPs can be used with newer versions of SketchUp, but not vice versa...
The tool's SKPs seem to ship as v8.
Have you edited them in v2013, or trying to use them in SketchUp v7 ?

So, if you open/edit any component SKP - like those in the tool's subfolder - then be sure to use 'Save_as' on it to put it back as being for an earlier version of SketchUp: so that it is then compatible when inserted as a component in earlier versions that it has just been edited in...

PS: Please update your User-Profile to show your OS, Version etc...
It helps us to help you...

Alan Fraser · 28 May 2013, 11:47

Brilliant plugin, Pascal...and very configurable...both during and post production.
The tree on the left is a default Olive...but with simplified leaf geometry (down to 3 faces per leaf). It is now down to only 21,000 faces.
The tree on the right is another default Olive, but with even simpler leaves (1 face) but double the number of leaves; and minus all the small twigs. This is down to only 12,000 faces. It was only 7000 before I doubled the leaf count (by simply selecting the foliage group, duplicating and rotating it.)

Krisidious · 28 May 2013, 12:04

@tig said:

PS: Please update your User-Profile to show your OS, Version etc...
It helps us to help you...

You might want to just add that to you signature and save some time.

ppoublan · 28 May 2013, 12:09

@archigrafix said:

@ppoublan said:

@archigrafix said:

Yes Kris nothing happens at all...just frustration

Hi Kris,
Sorry for that but I only tested it on SU8 as dev started after SU8 was available. Do not know what functions are not correctly supported by previous versions.
Do you get at least the menu in plugins ?
I you activate the Ruby console, do you get some messages in the console ?
Yours
Pascal

Yes the menu is there...When I choice "Make tree" it returns:

Error: #<RuntimeError: Can't insert empty component.>
(eval):1050:in load' (eval):1050:in initialize'
(eval):1042:in each' (eval):1042:in initialize'
(eval):1217:in new' (eval):1217:in initialize'
(eval):653:in new' (eval):653:in f3das_loadconfiguration'
(eval):651:in each' (eval):651:in f3das_loadconfiguration'
(eval):4443:in require' (eval):4443:in call'

Hope you can help

This part of code is loading skp files as components. It seems that these files are not read by SU7. The solution may be to load them wiht SU8 and save them as SU7 skp format.

archigrafix · 28 May 2013, 12:12

Thanx to help TIG

I have saved all leaves components in version 7 and now I get it to start...
Anyway it creates the trunk but no leaves and I get this error message from ruby console:

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method hue2rgb' for #<SketchupExtension::M3darcstudiotree::Cf3das_Colorset:0xf8a1cf0>> (eval):1774:in hsltorgb'
(eval):1648:in initialize' (eval):1628:in each'
(eval):1628:in initialize' (eval):2559:in new'
(eval):2559:in drawstems' (eval):2394:in draw'
(eval):667:in f3das_loadconfiguration' (eval):4443:in require'
(eval):4443:in `call'

ppoublan · 28 May 2013, 13:36

@archigrafix said:

Thanx to help TIG

I have saved all leaves components in version 7 and now I get it to start...
Anyway it creates the trunk but no leaves and I get this error message from ruby console:

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method hue2rgb' for #<SketchupExtension::M3darcstudiotree::Cf3das_Colorset:0xf8a1cf0>> (eval):1774:in hsltorgb'
(eval):1648:in initialize' (eval):1628:in each'
(eval):1628:in initialize' (eval):2559:in new'
(eval):2559:in drawstems' (eval):2394:in draw'
(eval):667:in f3das_loadconfiguration' (eval):4443:in require'
(eval):4443:in `call'

I need to debug with SU7. Seems SU7 interprets differently the ruby code. hue2rgb is a local definition within another one (hsltorgb). Should not be a method of the class. (is not with SU8).

Here is the code that is working for SU8 and not SU7 if someone has an idea

def hsltorgb(h, s, l)
		if h<0.0
			h=h+1.0
		end
		if h>1.0
			h=h-1.0
		end
		if s<0.01
			s=0.01
		end
		if s>0.99
			s=0.99
		end
		if l<0.01
			l=0.01
		end
		if l>0.99
			l=0.99
		end
		if(s == 0)
			r = g = b = l
		else
			def hue2rgb(p, q, t)
				if(t < 0)
					t = t + 1.0
				end
				if(t > 1)
					t = t - 1.0
				end
				if(t < 1.0/6.0)
					return p + (q - p) * 6.0 * t
				end
				if(t < 1.0/2.0)
					return q
				end
				if(t < 2.0/3.0)
					return p + (q - p) * (2.0/3.0 - t) * 6.0
				end
				return p
			end
			q = l < 0.5 ? l * (1.0 + s) ; l + s - l * s
			p = 2.0 * l - q
			r = hue2rgb(p, q, h + 1.0/3.0)
			g = hue2rgb(p, q, h)
			b = hue2rgb(p, q, h - 1.0/3.0)
		end
		return [r * 255, g * 255, b * 255]
	end

ppoublan · 28 May 2013, 14:04

ok I got it.
Need to publish new version.
Really strange that ruby code (without SU calls) not interpreted the same way.
Will fix this today.
Yours
Pascal

archigrafix · 28 May 2013, 16:18

@ppoublan said:

ok I got it.
Need to publish new version.
Really strange that ruby code (without SU calls) not interpreted the same way.
Will fix this today.
Yours
Pascal

Thanx to help Pascal
I will wait for it

kaas · 28 May 2013, 17:13

@alan fraser said:

Brilliant plugin, Pascal...and very configurable....

Brilliant indeed!

The plugin is also very good at making 'low' polygon count trees. The picture is a tree made of nearly 3k faces and 6k edges (mostly the trunk and 3d branches), the leaf size is maximum with a branch texture applied to it.

Krisidious · 28 May 2013, 17:14

You guys are killin me... I want mine to work.