[Plugin] Layers Panel 1.2.1

cmeed · 8 Oct 2013, 08:59

Hello Again - potential bug....
I opened my work from last night this morning - a popup saying the new version was out - downloaded

closed layer panel (as nothing had changed) -
-opened Layer panel again - could see there were new features - tried options, from the new pull down - nothing happened
tried new 'move selection to highlighted area' didn't seem to work
-closed Su
_open SU
opened layer Panel
-All groups gone
Layers still present

But
'Options' and 'move selection to highlighted layer' now work as expected. and I'm supposing the rest works too

(also when turning off render toolbar there's a big gap at the top.... suggest this render feature goes at the bottom no need to give such high status, you're going to use it for a short period while layers all the time....just a thought)

No Big issue for me on this project as I've finished but you better see if anyone else has had a problem

Keep up the great work - Fantastic plugin has changed my work flow tremendously
-just thought about your 'move to selected layer' how about 'move and rename' mmmmm interesting - you might be stepping on 'rename by layer plugin' toes but maybe you could get together - they work as a great accompaniment

c

cmeed · 8 Oct 2013, 10:27

updating a scene using a shortcut (in my case 'p')with Layer Panel Open now works - great stuff
Cheers
c

jiminy-billy-bob · 8 Oct 2013, 12:14

@cmeed said:

-All groups gone

This is a real problem I'll need to add a debug mode so that users can check if groups are gone for good, or if there is just a bug displaying them. Could you send me the file ? (Even without geometry)

@cmeed said:

also when turning off render toolbar there's a big gap at the top....

I was able to reproduce that, it seems to be a CSS problem, I'll release a fix soon.

@cmeed said:

-just thought about your 'move to selected layer' how about 'move and rename' mmmmm interesting - you might be stepping on 'rename by layer plugin' toes but maybe you could get together - they work as a great accompaniment

Nope, Renderiza's plugin works great, no need to replicate the work

jiminy-billy-bob · 8 Oct 2013, 12:14

@cmeed said:

updating a scene using a shortcut (in my case 'p')with Layer Panel Open now works - great stuff
Cheers
c

Great ! Don't know what was causing that, but I'm glad you don't have the issue anymore.

jiminy-billy-bob · 8 Oct 2013, 12:15

Also, I see that the menu button is invisible on IE9, I'll try to fix it.

cmeed · 8 Oct 2013, 12:52

Nope, Renderiza's plugin works great, no need to replicate the work [/quote]

all I'm saying is, ergonomically it would be better.... Thats all

jiminy-billy-bob · 8 Oct 2013, 18:52

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

Also, I see that the menu button is invisible on IE9, I'll try to fix it.

Can anyone confirm this ?

jiminy-billy-bob · 8 Oct 2013, 20:12

New version 0.5.1 beta !

Changelog :

Fix gap at the top when hiding the render toolbar

Download in the plugin store !

plesiosaur · 8 Oct 2013, 20:25

Any plans to add Thea to the Render list? Thanks

jiminy-billy-bob · 8 Oct 2013, 20:43

@cmeed said:

-All groups gone

The groups unique IDs are still present in your file, but they are not listed by Layers Panel serialized string. Don't know why...
Were layers still sorted, or did they revert back to Sketchup's default sorting ?

Did anyone else experienced this ?

jiminy-billy-bob · 8 Oct 2013, 20:45

@plesiosaur said:

Any plans to add Thea to the Render list? Thanks

See this :

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

Actually, if it works with Thea on day, it'll behave differently. You will probably have an option directly inside Thea allowing you to choose if you want to render with Layers Panel feature or not. But you won't render from within Layers Panel as you do with Vray/Maxwell/etc. This is due to the way Thea is designed. I can't trigger the render from my plugin.

I gave evrything to Tomasz to make it work, the ball is on his side now So if you badly want this feature, you should get in touch with him !

cmeed · 8 Oct 2013, 20:53

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

@cmeed said:

-All groups gone

The groups unique IDs are still present in your file, but they are not listed by Layers Panel serialized string. Don't know why...
Were layers still sorted, or did they revert back to Sketchup's default sorting ?

Did anyone else experienced this ?

The layers were not in any order.

jiminy-billy-bob · 8 Oct 2013, 21:00

Maybe the order they were created ? (Which is SU's default)

Elibjr · 9 Oct 2013, 03:20

Any thought to adding Render[in], IRender-nXt or Shaderlight to the list? This is such a great plugin! Thank you for all your work.

jiminy-billy-bob · 9 Oct 2013, 06:01

@elibjr said:

Any thought to adding Render[in], IRender-nXt or Shaderlight to the list? This is such a great plugin! Thank you for all your work.

Same case as Thea, I have to contact the developers.

Bob James · 9 Oct 2013, 06:15

Any progress with regard to solving the problem with the interference with the saving of scenes?

jiminy-billy-bob · 9 Oct 2013, 06:36

Working on it

jiminy-billy-bob · 9 Oct 2013, 06:57

Bug found : When a group is moved to be nested in another group, we can't rename it. We have to restart Layers Panel.
Working on a fix.

unclebim · 9 Oct 2013, 07:18

Great plugin, I have integrated it immediately in my workflow. However I noticed following issues (bugs?):

In SU 8 it displayed the outdated IE version message and did not allow the scroll. Since ver. 0.5 it does not display this message but only shows render engines in the window and no layers or layer groups at all. In SU 2013 this problem does not exist.
Not sure whether since ver. 0.4 or 0.5 but in both SU 8 and SU 2013 Edit->Paste and Ctrl+V do not work when pasting a group/component from another SU file, Edit->Paste in place works though. Removing the plugin files from SU Plugins folder resolved the problem in both SU 8 and SU 2013. Also renaming layers in the native SU Layers window sometimes caused bugsplat with the plugin installed in SU 2013.

Hope that helps.

Thank you for your great plugin, it is so useful.

jiminy-billy-bob · 9 Oct 2013, 08:25

@unclebim said:

In SU 8 it displayed the outdated IE version message and did not allow the scroll. Since ver. 0.5 it does not display this message but only shows render engines in the window and no layers or layer groups at all. In SU 2013 this problem does not exist.

What's your IE version ?

@unclebim said:

Not sure whether since ver. 0.4 or 0.5 but in both SU 8 and SU 2013 Edit->Paste and Ctrl+V do not work, Edit->Paste in place works though. Removing the plugin files from SU Plugins folder resolved the problem in both SU 8 and SU 2013. Also renaming layers in the native SU Layers window sometimes caused bugsplat with the plugin installed in SU 2013.

Weird. Does it work when Layers Panel is installed but closed ?