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    • tt_suT Offline
      tt_su
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      "This video is private" ๐Ÿ˜ž
      /me wants LEGO!

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      • ppoublanP Offline
        ppoublan
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        @tt_su said:

        "This video is private" ๐Ÿ˜ž

        Oops, is it better now ?

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        • tt_suT Offline
          tt_su
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          ๐Ÿ˜

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          • eneroth3E Offline
            eneroth3
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            I can hardly believe my eyes when seeing the video. It's really cool!

            I think I can add the settings for how to follow a rolling stock in the advanced animation settings. I don't want to clutter the context menu since it makes it a lot more time consuming to find in it when drawing.

            By 'Translate camera', do you mean moving the camera relative to the train but without rotating and by 'Rotate around selection' the current behavior?

            I can add a reference called session_data to the balises where user can store any data they like during a the Sketchup session.

            Btw, custom signals have been added for the next version:).

            My website: http://julia-christina-eneroth.se/

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            • ppoublanP Offline
              ppoublan
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              Hi Christina,
              Thanks for the fix for small tracks. It works great.
              I played a little bit with the SU camera target and eye attributes and put the code to be executed between frames.
              Here is a sample of what can be obtained with that :

              Itโ€™s very simple code, but hardcoded, and no idea of any user interface.
              I will try at least to โ€œpackageโ€ some functions so they can be called easily from railroad at each frame call.
              Basically Iโ€™m thinking of :

              • Follow selection
              • Rotate around selection
              • Zoom in / Zoom out
              • Translate camera
                With any train that can be selected as any other object.
                If others want to play and add more detailed/fun rolling stocks, here is the basic Lego pack used in this video to unzip in the Plugins directory (simple track + locomotive and freight):
                ene_railroad.zip

              Yours
              Pascal

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              • BoxB Offline
                Box
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                A fantastic plugin, but it does have something that bothers me. I like to use a limited number of toolbars and only open them up when I need them. Your toolbar, no matter which way you close it, will always reopen on startup unless you have actually disabled the plugin. Could you look at removing this behavior.

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                • eneroth3E Offline
                  eneroth3
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                  @box said:

                  A fantastic plugin, but it does have something that bothers me. I like to use a limited number of toolbars and only open them up when I need them. Your toolbar, no matter which way you close it, will always reopen on startup unless you have actually disabled the plugin. Could you look at removing this behavior.

                  The plugin should run toolbar.restore within a 0 timer t avoid some bug (apparently called 2902434) but for some reason my code uses .show instead ๐Ÿ˜ฒ . It'll be fixed for the next release but you can manually change it an line 1248 in main.rb now if you want to. I think this was the solution for a bug in SU 8 which doesn't support the plugin so it's probably not needed at all. ๐Ÿ˜•

                  My website: http://julia-christina-eneroth.se/

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                  • BoxB Offline
                    Box
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                    Thanks, it was only a tiny thing in an otherwise superb plugin.

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                    • deaneauD Offline
                      deaneau
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                      WELCOME BACK <joke> JCE (sound like jaycey)</joke> Eneroth3.

                      i have find some bugs and eastereggs in your plugin.

                      more about this via PM.

                      dean

                      MADE, BORN AND LIVING IN BERLIN
                      Big Thank You to all Programmers
                      Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. M.Twain

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                      • ppoublanP Offline
                        ppoublan
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                        @eneroth3 said:

                        By 'Translate camera', do you mean moving the camera relative to the train but without rotating and by 'Rotate around selection' the current behavior?

                        Hi Christina,
                        Easier to explain with sample. Here are some functions I used, to be called at each frame.
                        Feel free to integrate/customize/mix as you want within your plugin.

                        Here is the ruby file:
                        camera_animation.rb

                        And samples:

                        rotate around

                        target

                        follow

                        Pascal

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                        • tt_suT Offline
                          tt_su
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                          So, you created the animations in your videos with your own animation script?
                          Have you published it anywhere other in that comment here? GitHub?

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                          • ppoublanP Offline
                            ppoublan
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                            @tt_su said:

                            So, you created the animations in your videos with your own animation script?

                            Yes for the cameras, not for the trains that are moved by Christina's Railroad plugin.

                            @unknownuser said:

                            Have you published it anywhere other in that comment here? GitHub?

                            No. Its only few lines of code, that could/should be optimized... and adapted to custom needs. If any of the good developers that are here wants to improve it to make a more complete library it may be great...
                            In fact I think those features are really missing to SU.

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                            • tt_suT Offline
                              tt_su
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                              @ppoublan said:

                              If any of the good developers that are here wants to improve it to make a more complete library it may be great...

                              I'd encourage GitHub to publish code where you invite collaboration and enhancements from the community.

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                              • leolouieL Offline
                                leolouie
                                last edited by

                                I have just downloaded the Railroad plugin, but there are no selections in the "Add Track" box. Is there a link to other components?

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                                • eneroth3E Offline
                                  eneroth3
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                                  Pascal: The animations look great and I really like the 0.95 ratio thing to make it smoother. It looks just as filmed with a real stadicam. I think this library could grow and be used for much more than the train simulator. I agree with Thomthom about putting it on Github for more people to work on, then I can also add a link to it from the documentation of my plugin ๐Ÿ‘ .

                                  @leolouie said:

                                  I have just downloaded the Railroad plugin, but there are no selections in the "Add Track" box. Is there a link to other components?

                                  That's really odd. What Sketchup version are you using? 2013+ is needed.

                                  My website: http://julia-christina-eneroth.se/

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                                  • J Offline
                                    jonb42
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                                    I'm having the same problem. I use SU 2013 and 2014 and in neither of them can I place track in a new drawing. When I open your example drawing however I am able to place track - it is as if a library was not loading but perhaps is already loaded in the example drawing.

                                    Also in SU 2013 I get a script error - see attached photo. I'm using your latest version 1.13 I think dated the 9th of this month.

                                    thanks though for this awesome plugin! I am really impressed and can't wait to place a train track throughout some new building model I want to show off to a customer!

                                    Jon


                                    Railroad script error-001.jpg

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                                    • eneroth3E Offline
                                      eneroth3
                                      last edited by

                                      @jonb42 said:

                                      I'm having the same problem. I use SU 2013 and 2014 and in neither of them can I place track in a new drawing. When I open your example drawing however I am able to place track - it is as if a library was not loading but perhaps is already loaded in the example drawing.

                                      Also in SU 2013 I get a script error - see attached photo. I'm using your latest version 1.13 I think dated the 9th of this month.

                                      thanks though for this awesome plugin! I am really impressed and can't wait to place a train track throughout some new building model I want to show off to a customer!

                                      Jon

                                      Hi Jon

                                      This sounds very similar to an error on Mac that's one user has reported but that didn't occur for others. Can you add this code "puts js" to line 376 in track_insert_tool.rb and post the text printed in the console?

                                      My website: http://julia-christina-eneroth.se/

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                                      • deaneauD Offline
                                        deaneau
                                        last edited by

                                        Here an intresting links:

                                        for all ENE-RR-Fans ( eneroth3railroad)

                                        Index of /greg/rail/docs/clearance

                                        favicon

                                        (gritton.org)

                                        Link Preview Image

                                        this is a svg file UIC & AAR clearance.

                                        for all non railroader.

                                        this is the room that need the train without crash with other objects along and alongside the Track ( /bridge/tunnel/catenary/signals/and other trains.)

                                        Link Preview Image
                                        Loading gauge - Wikipedia

                                        favicon

                                        (en.wikipedia.org)

                                        http://www.rgsonline.co.uk/Railway_Group_Standards/Infrastructure/Guidance%20Notes/GEGN8573%20Iss%201.pdf

                                        for more search results: insert in google

                                        aar clearance (american) AND/OR uic clearance (european+br)
                                        ----

                                        here a way to go to a simulator (sketchup to trainz(auran.com))

                                        dhobh.net

                                        favicon

                                        (www.dhobh.net)

                                        sometimes i work/play with this, too.

                                        AND

                                        railworks (Trainsimulator 2012/2013/2014/2015)

                                        Link Preview Image
                                        Error

                                        favicon

                                        (www.facebook.com)

                                        Link Preview Image
                                        | Dovetail Games

                                        favicon

                                        (www.dovetailgames.com)

                                        sorry not a sketchup plugin avaiable only for blender/3dsmax. ๐Ÿ˜ข
                                        ----
                                        and here my historical project for this games.

                                        301 Moved Permanently

                                        favicon

                                        (rail-sim.de)

                                        sorry german language however with pictures.

                                        this is not an egoshooter!!!

                                        dean
                                        (loco driver student/retired)

                                        all parts was build with original blueprints!!!

                                        MADE, BORN AND LIVING IN BERLIN
                                        Big Thank You to all Programmers
                                        Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. M.Twain

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                                        • J Offline
                                          jonb42
                                          last edited by

                                          @eneroth3 said:

                                          Hi Jon

                                          This sounds very similar to an error on Mac that's one user has reported but that didn't occur for others. Can you add this code "puts js" to line 376 in track_insert_tool.rb and post the text printed in the console?

                                          Julia,

                                          see attached screenshots.

                                          In the ruby console what you see is left from me running some other plugin - so you can see the console is working. Actually, none of your tools writes anything to the console. You can see I've started the track tool here and nothing shows - except the script error dialog.

                                          The other screenshot is showing where I put the "puts.js"

                                          Another strange thing - while I was looking for track_insert_tool.rb I noticed there was only an instance of this file in the Program files etc SU 2013 Plugins folder, not in the SU 2014 folder. Is the plugin not compatible with 2014 or am I looking in the wrong place? I looked under ProgramData as well and searched c:\

                                          Maybe the install process did not work properly?

                                          thanks
                                          Jon


                                          railroad  7-24-2014 7-00-17 AM.jpg


                                          railroad  7-24-2014 7-01-48 AM.jpg

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                                          • eneroth3E Offline
                                            eneroth3
                                            last edited by

                                            Jon,

                                            Sorry, I gave you the wrong line number because I've added more code above it in my local copy. The code needs to be on line 393 and without quotes:

                                            puts js
                                            

                                            I've never installed a plugin from the Pluginstore so I don't know if it puts the files in the wrong location, however if it does the plugin shouldn't open at all.

                                            It seems like something goes wrong when creating the javascript that is later executed in the web dialog so I'd like to know what code is executed (the variable named js). I really have no idea how this can work in my example model but not in new models. That is really odd.

                                            Thanks

                                            My website: http://julia-christina-eneroth.se/

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