[Plugin][WIP][OpenSource] Bezier Surface

[panixia]

@jolran said:

I suggest waiting for his return..

never thought for a second to fix the code by myself
anyway i downloaded su15 and it works perfectly.. too bad su2015 doesn't fit my needs at the moment (mainly for the other 31454535 plugin i use)
this tool is great! sort of pseudo-nurb brother of vertex tools..
waiting for su8 news..

[unclex]

@jolran said:

@unknownuser said:

but.. it says su8 is supported..

It may have be a condition set on line 26 in the loader rb
"file = FILE.dup.force_encoding("UTF-8")"

Yes
For 2013 or 8 user
just change that like this

"file = FILE"

[Box]

Did you restart Sketchup after installing it?

[jolran]

@unknownuser said:

Yes
For 2013 or 8 user
just change that like this

"file = FILE"

Like I said, better let Thomthom do it properly. Even if it looks like a simple fix, it "may" have consequences for TT_lib since removing encoding.
Although, nothing "bad" should happend if you only experiment at 1 place..

[unclex]

It's just always updating...

Like the GIF

Cannot Click or DoubleClick

and when SU opening， nothing prompt

[thomthom]

@jolran said:

Do you use Knotvectors for the patches ? Or are they interval-based type powerbasis functions ?
Edit: Ah right, they are not spline-based, (duh). So you go through the C-extensioncode right ?

It's simple bezier quad patches with 4x4 control points each. The bezier calculation is based on the bezier example script posted by @last many years ago, I just ported it to C for faster calculations. You can see the source in TT_Lib2.

[thomthom]

@jolran said:

How do you add Tripatch to Qaudpatch ? Possible ?

No, this was on my todo, once the quad patches was done. I removed the main toolbar button for it right before release, but forgot there was menu items and that second webdialog toolbar. I should push a new update the removes the unused controls in the dialog.

[thomthom]

@box said:

This rough test torso is less than five minutes work.

Really? I didn't expect the extension to be that useful in it's current state. I hope people do post back more picture.

[Oxer]

Thanks you very much for the plugin!!
I installed it in SU2014 & SU2015 on Mac but the plugin didn't work, I found a conflict with smartdrop.rb and Sketchyphysics, I deleted smartdrop.rb (I use tt.raytracer now to drop components) and I have deactivated Sketchyphysics on SU2014 with Sketchucation Plugins Manager and Bezier Surface work fine now.

[thomthom]

@panixia said:

it looks super nice thank you but it doesn't work for me (sketchup 8 on win7)..
i suppose i installed it properly and also updated ttlib to last version..
i suspect it may depends on some conflict with tons of other plugins..

Should work with SU7 and up, I think. Any error messages?

[thomthom]

@jolran said:

@unknownuser said:

it looks super nice thank you but it doesn't work for me (sketchup 8 on win7)

Same here. I only had it working in 2014.

Error "defined method `force_encoding' for #String:0xb10993c"

This is "probably" and Ruby 1.8 error. I have the impression that many authors will stop supporting SU 8 soon.

Yea, with my new subdivison extension I'm certainly dropping support for anything older than SU2014.

Though this was written before SU2014 and it should work. (Though might have introduced a bug when I added SU2014 support. Can you provide the full error message and exact SketchUp version and OS?)

[thomthom]

@panixia said:

yeah. force encoding blablabla.. getting similar message when loading sketchup

The bla bla bla bit of error message is in fact very useful for developers when debugging errors - please post all of it when reporting issues.

[thomthom]

@jolran said:

It may have be a condition set on line 26 in the loader rb
"file = FILE.dup.force_encoding("UTF-8")"

Ah - right, I'll fix that and push an update next week.

[thomthom]

@unclex said:

It's just always updating...

Like the GIF[attachment=0:1br0oo34]<!-- ia0 -->8.gif<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1br0oo34]

Cannot Click or DoubleClick

and when SU opening， nothing prompt

Any errors in the Ruby Console?
What SketchUp version?

[thomthom]

@oxer said:

Thanks you very much for the plugin!!
I installed it in SU2014 & SU2015 on Mac but the plugin didn't work, I found a conflict with smartdrop.rb and Sketchyphysics, I deleted smartdrop.rb (I use tt.raytracer now to drop components) and I have deactivated Sketchyphysics on SU2014 with Sketchucation Plugins Manager and Bezier Surface work fine now.

SketchyPhysics is known to clash with extensions. I think an update is coming.
Not sure about smartdrop.rb - not familiar with that one.

[Oxer]

A quick test taking like reference the torso of Box.

[panixia]

@thomthom said:

@panixia said:

yeah. force encoding blablabla.. getting similar message when loading sketchup

The bla bla bla bit of error message is in fact very useful for developers when debugging errors - please post all of it when reporting issues.

i'm pretty much sure that the "blablabla" part of the message returned ad least 3 different values with different tries (that's pretty odd i suppose) the last try being: "Loading File tt_bezier_surface.rb
undefined method `force_encoding' for #String:0xec947b8no such file to load --"
hope this can help

[thomthom]

I'll mainly focus on my subdivision extension over this one. Though I'll try to maintain small bug fixes and pull requests. I'll see after SUbD is done what I do with this project.

Btw, I have a fix for the compatibility bug with SU2013 and older. I'll be pushing an update.

[jolran]

@unknownuser said:

I'll mainly focus on my subdivision extension over this one

I understand.

@unknownuser said:

Btw, I have a fix for the compatibility bug with SU2013 and older. I'll be pushing an update.

[pilou]

When there is incompatibility (Sketchyphysics 3, SKalp, (my case) etc...
Who is faulty ? These plugins or Bezier Surface ?

@oxer : Rodin 2