[Plugin][WIP][OpenSource] Bezier Surface

thomthom · 3 Dec 2014, 13:34

@box said:

Yes for me using the Gizmo defaults to subdivisions and will bug splat if you try 2.

I'm not entirely sure I understand the steps for this. Can you elaborate?

Box · 3 Dec 2014, 13:39

If you type 2 enter, in other words try to set the subdivisions to 2, it will bug splatt.

Oxer · 3 Dec 2014, 15:25

Other suggestion, it would be very interesting if you could adjust the control points to a external geometry of the bezier surface, like the inference in SU, so you can adjust quickly your bezier surface to a predefined shape.

Krisidious · 3 Dec 2014, 16:01

Where are the instructions?

Oxer · 3 Dec 2014, 19:20

Rich posted a video explanation here:

@rich o brien said:

You're gonna love this.....

Krisidious · 3 Dec 2014, 20:38

Thanks Oxer.

thomthom · 4 Dec 2014, 23:22

@box said:

If you type 2 enter, in other words try to set the subdivisions to 2, it will bug splatt.

I have reproduced this and created a fix. The fix will appear in TT_Lib2 however. I'm still looking into a couple of other issues - so I'm not pushing an update right now. Just be careful no to change the subdivs to less than 3 until Bezier Surface and TT_Lib2 is updated.

thomthom · 4 Dec 2014, 23:29

@box said:

I found a little problem with it.
If you scale to 0 as a way of straightening an edge it freezes and won't update the surface. If you get out of edit mode and go back in an move a point it will revert to the unscaled skin.

This is turning out to be trickier to fix. What happens is that when you scale the edges it currently scales the handles. So when you scale to zero it scales the handles to zero and all kind of bad things happen.
I need to add the implicit handle scaling as an option (by default off is probably best). Also need to prevent handles from becoming completely zero length - or some way to restore them.
There is also an issue in the current way the scaling that once you have scaled to zero, nothing will scale back. That is even tricker to fix.

I need to split this out into multiple fixes.

You can check the status in the Issue Tracker:
https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/bezier-surface/issues?status=new%26amp;status=open

Box · 4 Dec 2014, 23:48

Thanks for looking into it Thomthom, it's such a good tool, with amazing potential.
I tried Bezier Triangle today from EH and it's nowhere near as good.

JQL · 5 Dec 2014, 11:13

@thomthom said:

@jql said:

(Thomthom - I submited the bugsplats.)

Which platform and what OS? Did you mention Bezier Surface in the BugSplats?

Win7 SU2015 64bits and I believe I did mention Bezier Surface

JQL · 5 Dec 2014, 11:18

@oxer said:

Other suggestion, it would be very interesting if you could adjust the control points to a external geometry of the bezier surface, like the inference in SU, so you can adjust quickly your bezier surface to a predefined shape.

Would be perfect.

And what if you'd pick a quadface (defined in quadface tools) and convert it on a bezier patch.

thomthom · 6 Dec 2014, 15:20

@thomthom said:

@box said:

If you type 2 enter, in other words try to set the subdivisions to 2, it will bug splatt.

I have reproduced this and created a fix. The fix will appear in TT_Lib2 however. I'm still looking into a couple of other issues - so I'm not pushing an update right now. Just be careful no to change the subdivs to less than 3 until Bezier Surface and TT_Lib2 is updated.

I've uploaded a new version of TT_Lib2 which should fix the crash. You can now safely set the segments down to 1 if you like.

AcesHigh · 24 Dec 2014, 19:21

I am getting this error message in SKP 2015

I wonder if "Error: #<Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8>" refers to the fact the default new plugins folder path is the "USER" and in my language it´s USUÁRIO with that accent over the A.

Error Loading File C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface/core.rb
Error: #<Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8>
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:109:in end_with?' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:109:in rescue in require'
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/Tools/RubyStdLib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:35:in require' C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface/core.rb:117:in block in module:BezierSurfaceTools'
C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface/core.rb:115:in each' C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface/core.rb:115:in module:BezierSurfaceTools'
C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface/core.rb:33:in <top (required)>' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in require'
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/Tools/extensions.rb:197:in load' C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface.rb:42:in register_extension'
C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface.rb:42:in <module:BezierSurfaceTools>' C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface.rb:15:in module:Plugins'
C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface.rb:14:in <module:TT>' C:/Users/Usuário/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface.rb:13:in <top (required)>'

thomthom · 27 Dec 2014, 17:37

@aceshigh said:

I wonder if "Error: #<Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8>" refers to the fact the default new plugins folder path is the "USER" and in my language it´s USUÁRIO with that accent over the A.

Yes ... but I thought I had fixed that. Exactly what version do you have installed?

thomthom · 27 Dec 2014, 18:03

Meh! I can reproduce this. Another Ruby encoding issue with filesystem functions. I think I have a fix for this. Look for an update.

thomthom · 27 Dec 2014, 18:19

Just realized I'd forgotten to push a couple of other fixes so I uploaded a new version now (0.1.3). Live on PluginStore - pending review on Extension Warehouse.

JQL · 28 Dec 2014, 00:47

@thomthom said:

Just realized I'd forgotten to push a couple of other fixes so I uploaded a new version now (0.1.3). Live on PluginStore - pending review on Extension Warehouse.

Aren't you the one reviewing extensions on EW? That seems beurocratic...

BTW what a great tool you have here... full of possibilities!

Would rival the rotated rectangle tool/pushpull combo if my buildings weren't so... well... flat!

Thanks again Thomthom!

thomthom · 28 Dec 2014, 14:41

@jql said:

Aren't you the one reviewing extensions on EW? That seems beurocratic...

I'm not the sole person handling it. And it wouldn't be right for me to review my own extension.

cmeed · 9 Jan 2015, 21:37

GREAT TOOL!
So easy to use. this took me 30 minutes, it's not anatomically correct but I think you can get quite close .
I've had limited time using this, is there a bug when you try to use it over an image, I tried drawing the patches over a reference image but the tool wouldn't work. When I clicked inside the box there was just a mesh of quad. the Bezier surface tools didn't appear.
To make this image I just started afresh. I will endeavour to try again soon to see if this is a problem or not.

cmeed · 9 Jan 2015, 22:01

encountered a problem. All the patches have disappeared and it's now one mesh. Can't seem to get the patches back but I had great fun while it lasted.
Can't wait till I have more time to play with this
Cheers
Chris